Senior Cloud Engineer, Azure

Amsterdam/ Remote EMEA

The world loves Postgres. If you work with developers or data scientists or anyone wrangling data, you’ll probably see a sticker with the tusks and trunk of the Postgres elephant on the lid of a nearby laptop. EDB has a lot to do with that.

We’ve been major contributors to Postgres since the beginning, and we are proud to call thousands of boundary pushing customers our partners. Proud though we are, we are not resting on our laurels. There’s plenty of work to do. The good news is that everything we do will impact Postgres, which is to say that it will impact the world. No pressure.

EDB is looking for an experienced Senior Cloud Engineer, Azure This hands-on position will focus on building out our cloud management software working with our development teams in EMEA, USA and India. This software will enable our core database technology along with its ecosystem of database management tooling to be deployed across a Azure Cloud environments.

We believe the best software architects are those who combine technical expertise, market knowledge, and leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and build EDB’s Azure cloud management capabilities.
• Collaborate effectively with engineering leadership, product management, and executive management
• Be a technical leader representing EDB’s Cloud technologies, engaging with our customers, partners, and field teams
• Be a mentor to other engineers in the EDB Product Development organization
• Occasionally participate in EDB’s marketing efforts, such as webinars, speaking opportunities, blogging, and conferences

Requirements

• 10+ years in software development with hands-on experience leading the design, development, and deployment of mission-critical software at scale with experience bringing new products to market
• Experience with Azure cloud-native development is essential.
• Experience building, architecting, designing, and implementing highly-distributed cloud-based data systems
• Experience with Containers and Kubernetes
• Recent coding experience in Go, Java, JavaScript, C/C++, C#, Node.js, Python,
• Experience with continuous integration tools (e.g. Jenkins) and configuration management platforms (e.g. Chef, Puppet, Salt, or Ansible)
• Experience with Azure, cloud implementations; relevant certifications a plus
• Integration of cloud services with on premise technologies from Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, HP, SAP etc.
• Experience driving discussions with senior team members regarding trade-offs, best practices, project management and risk mitigation

Nice to Have

• Experience with agile methodologies
• Willingness to analyse, understand, and extend existing cultural and technical systems

We know it takes a unique mix of people and skills to help us in our mission to supercharge Postgres, and we understand that not everyone will check every box. We’d love to hear from you and we want you to apply!

EDB is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. EDB was built on a commitment to trust and respect each other and to embrace an array of people and ideas. These values remain at the centre of our culture and are key to our company’s integrity.

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