Cloud Engineer
Job Description
As a Cloud Engineer of the Cloud Platform team you will play a crucial role in architecting and implementing fully automated (IAAC/Terraform), secure, reliable, scalable & resilient multi-cloud/hybrid-cloud solutions. The Cloud Engineer will be part of a highly technical and cross functional team and work closely with cloud/DevOps engineers, platform delivery lead, solution architects, enterprise architects and other stakeholders. The ideal candidate for this role is a self-starter who can work independently with minimal oversight, has an agile/DevOps mindset, is an SME in building cloud products and has a passion to learn.
Objectives and Responsibilities
Work closely with solution architects, cloud engineers and provide support to senior staff, ensuring designs align with technical and business direction across the company
Write clean, high-performance, well tested infrastructure code with a focus on reusability and automation (i.e. Shell, Python, GoLang, Puppet, Terraform etc?)
Work collaboratively with Cloud/DevOps developers, platform delivery lead, solution architects, enterprise architects to define and develop secured, highly scalable enterprise cloud products
Explore and recommend new technologies/services. Articulate the advantages of various solution options
Provide recommendations on architectural changes in order to improve efficiency, reliability and performance and to reduce cost
Support platform delivery lead on the prioritization of the product backlog, refining product roadmap, reporting, KPIs & releases
Actively participate and contribute on all sprint ceremonies (daily stand-up, sprint planning, sprint retro, sprint demo and backlog grooming)
Collaborate with Cloud/DevOps engineers to solve technical and design problems
Conduct and oversee design & code reviews
Define platform software engineering standards and ensure compliance
Monitor platform products quality and work closely with Cloud/DevOps engineers to improve it
Technical Design, Development? & Problem Solving
Highly seasoned professionalwith specialized skills/knowledge, that is recognized across the organization for their expertise.
Experience to independently develop algorithms?and deliver results in production environments at scale.
Ability to take on proof of concepts to proof new technologies?
Problem solve with little to no guidance
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Execution & Delivery
Ability to?independently execute complex, long term projects
Publish, patent, and/or open source novel work.
Optimizing the delivery approach(is it being delivered well, is it being delivered with quality and is the team using methodology)
Understand context of the work rather than just focusing on what is assigned.
Excellent communicator and collaborates?well with people on the team and in other organizations
Innovate and is open to ideas to improve efficiencies and works with the team to pivot if necessary.
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Software Engineering Excellence
Responsible for code excellence and quality of the project being assigned, assisting lead in suggestions & design as needed.
Research on tools being used by the department and provide suggestions for improvements
Enhance continuous delivery and integration processes for the team
Creates reusable code frameworks or example projects to aid developers on the team.
?Advocates and leads initiatives?for enhancing our testing frameworks
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Leadership
Mentor core developers
Partner with business stakeholders and product managers to define project timelines and deliverable at each project stage.
Awareness and involvement in identifying the resources which would be required for project delivery. Being able to identify resources from other departments. May not take ownership of these communications, but assisting the Lead when relevant
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications?
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent, 5 years in architecting and implementing fully automated (IAAC/Terraform), secure, reliable, scalable & resilient multi-cloud/hybrid-cloud solution.
Must have hands-on experience with Kubernetes, microservices architecture
Experience with network infrastructure skills (e.g. setting up and managing firewalls, WAFs, network segregation, VPNs and network ACLs)
Experience with multi-cloud architecture
Experience with DevOps concepts, tools (containers, (CI/CD - Github, Jenkins, Artifactory, Helm), Chef, Ansible, Puppet etc.) and emerging technologies
Experience with observability tools such as Splunk, New Relic, Pager Duty
Experience with infrastructure systems that support enterprise data science and analytics capabilities, including streaming and real-time analytics (Kafka, Spark Streaming, and Snowplow)
Experience with on-premise to cloud migration
Experience with cloud security toolsets (Prisma, Zeronorth, Wiz, JFrog Xray, Cloudwatch etc)
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Able to thrive in a collaborative and cross-functional environment
AWS /Azure certification e.g., Solution Architect, Developer, Administrator, Security, DevOps
Preferred Qualifications :?
3+ Years of experience in AWS/AZURE cloud
CKA Certification - Certified Kubernetes Administrator or CKAD - Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
Nice to have - Subject matter expert in Cloud Security and/or Cloud Networking
AWS /Azure certification preferably at professional level