Cloud Engineer

Location: Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Department: Technology

Workplace: hybrid

Employment Type: full

Description

About Euromonitor

Euromonitor International leads the world in data analytics and research into markets, industries, economies and consumers. We provide truly global insight and data on thousands of products and services; we are the first destination for organizations seeking growth. With our guidance, our clients can make bold, strategic decisions with confidence.

Overview of the role

The Cloud Engineer is responsible for the implementation of business initiatives across public cloud domains. This is a technical position with understanding of the different services and functionality available within Microsoft Azure/Google Cloud Platform, central to the position. It is expected that the Cloud Engineer can contribute to solution design as well articulate this back to the business with clarity. Designed and/or implemented business solutions will have been considered fit for purpose on several levels notably, cost, requirement, resilience, performance, security and future proofing/improvements. This person would also be key in the distribution of knowledge and skills around cloud services to the wider Technology team/members including Data Science Team. Knowledge and experience in Microsoft SQL Server Administration are expected to support monolithic databases during their transformation. 

Requirements

What you’ll do

• Cloud Solutions Implementation - Collaborate with other engineers/technology professionals to implement and thoroughly test a business solution on cloud by completing all requirements. 
• Continuous Learning - The Engineer is expected to always be up to speed with latest Cloud Services innovations, looking for ways to use those in the business to make continuous improvements to business continuity, performance, security and costs savings.  
• Creating best practices - Contribute to creation of best practices and standards on cloud which must be followed when creating any business solutions by all Technology teams.  
• Cloud Solutions Design - The person must contribute to creation of design for various cloud-based business solutions. 
• Training - Spread the knowledge learned across Technology. Train colleagues how to work with various services on cloud and what standards and best practices to follow. 
• Documentation - Create required documentation to meet business objectives and compliance requirements. 
• Monitoring and Support – Ensure any services that the team owns are always in best health, respond to incidents be it outage or security breach. 

What we’re looking for

• Experience in Microsoft Azure and/or Google Cloud Platform 
• Minumum 3 years of experience in cloud engineering

• Experience in planning, designing, building and implementing cloud services with non-functional requirements 

• Experience in networking and security 

• Experience administering Linux and/or Windows Operating Systems 

• Experience in writing infrastructure as code scripts (ARM Templates, Python, PowerShell, Bash, T-SQL) 

• Experience working with relational database technologies (MS SQL, PostgreSQL) 

• Experience in optimizing workloads, reducing run times for automated processes 

• Experience in CI/CD tools (Azure DevOps) 

• Knowledge in NoSQL database technologies 

• Knowledge in configuration/orchestration management tools (Ansible, Terraform, DSC) 

• Microsoft Azure Administrator certified or future equivalent 

• Advantageous - working with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) 

• Advantageous - knowledge about Data Science tools (Google/Jupiter Notebooks) 

• Advantageous – other latest Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform certifications 

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Benefits

Why work for Euromonitor?

Our values:

We seek individuals who act with integrity

We look for candidates who are curious about the world

We feel that as a community, we’re stronger together

We seek to enable people to feel empowered

We welcome candidates who bring strength in diversity

International: We have a multinational workforce and communicate daily across our 16

global offices.

Hardworking and Sociable: Our staff balance hard work with enjoyment, offering flexible

hours and regular social events, including after-work meetups, summer and Christmas

parties.

Committed to Making a Difference: Our Corporate Social Responsibility Programme

provides two volunteering days annually; donation amounts for new starters and supports

local and international charities through various initiatives.

Excellent Benefits: We offer competitive salaries, private health insurance, and generous

holiday allowances, amongst much more!

Opportunities to Grow: We provide extensive training and development, promoting from

within and across departments, and rewarding talent.

Equal Employment Opportunity: Euromonitor International does not discriminate based

on race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender

identity, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee

organisation, or other non-merit factors