Cloud Engineer (R-17213)

Responsibilities:

• As part of the Platform Engineering team, you will be working on a large multi-system AWS environment with developer enablement tooling that our internal application development teams rely on.
• Serve as a software engineering for integration, automation, reliability, monitoring, and operations of the overall platform’s IaC and features.
• Facilitate the requirements for engineering and support of the platform’s integrations.
• Help document, advocate, and formalize patterns for resilience, availability, security, monitoring and alerting that is integrated into firm systems.
• Make heavy use of cloud platform tooling, including Terraform Cloud, GitHub Enterprise, Artifactory, CICD, Packer, Ansible etc.
• Keep the running system and tools stable and up to date as well as cost efficient, explore new ways to improve these metrics.
• Participate in pull-request code and document reviews to help steer your team and developers towards platform solutions whilst gathering requirements to ensure we close functional gaps on the platform (e.g., style guidelines, accuracy, testability, and efficiency)
• Be an active participant in the envisioning, design, and development process – this includes proactively suggesting improvements and alternatives along with keeping an open mind to the suggestions offered by other team members and users.
• Collaborate with technology stakeholders and product teams to develop and articulate our vision; as well as deliver and sustain the end-to-end customer experience, in globally distributed platform aligned teams across technology.

Experience & Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or related technical field
• 5 years of infrastructure operations experience
• At least 4+ years of experience working with Linux systems in production
• At least 3 years+ working with any of the major cloud providers (AWS
• Experience in Python3 and Shell scripting 
• Strong Kubernetes experience
• Experience in CI/CD pipelines (Bamboo/Jenkins etc)
• Mature software and IaC development practices
• Strong experience handling incidents and working with incident management processes
• Agile practices (any of: lean, Kanban, scrum, XP, etc. with jira or similar)
• Knowledge of databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, NoSQL Document DBs, ElasticSearch
• Good knowledge of English essential
• Ability to thrive in a high energy, high growth, fast paced, entrepreneurial environment, learning new skills to implement new technologies and excellent problem-solving skills.
• Highly collaborative team player who can build strong relationships at all levels of the technology and business organizations, with solid communication skills and ability to work across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support software solutions in full-stack development tools and technologies

Nice to have:

• 5+ years of extensive hands-on experience with various industry standard DevOps, SDLC and Cloud IaC tools and libraries:
• Terraform (ideally Terraform Cloud)
• (GKE, EKS, kOps, NGINX Ingress Controller)
• Data streaming (Kafka, Pub/Sub)
• CI/CD (Bamboo)
• GitHub Enterprise
• Observability (e.g. Splunk)
• Platform engineering skills in security, cloud networking and SDLC related technologies, e.g. PKI, TLS, DNS, Secrets Management, RBAC, Remote Access, Artifact management and DevSecOps/FinOps.