Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

Senior Cloud Platform DevOps Engineer

KONE Technology and Innovation Unit (KTI) is where the magic happens at KONE. It's where we combine the physical world – escalators and elevators – with smart and connected digital systems. We are changing and improving the way billions of people move within buildings every day. We are on a mission to expand and develop new digital solutions that are based on emerging technologies.

KONE’s vision is to create the Best People Flow® experience by providing ease, effectiveness and experiences to our customers and users. In line with our strategy, Sustainable Success with Customers, we will focus on increasing the value we create for customers with new intelligent solutions and embed sustainability even deeper across all of our operations. By closer collaboration with customers and partners, KONE will increase the speed of bringing new services and solutions to the market.

R&D unit in KTI is responsible for developing digital services at KONE. It’s the development engine for our Digital Services such as KONE 24/7 Connected Services,  Office Flow and Partnership Ecosystem.

We are looking for a Senior Cloud Platform DevOps Engineer to help us to continue building & managing our cloud platform in AWS to support our digital products. Our landscape is quite interesting and large scale, punctuated with key technology areas such as IoT, machine learning, big data, artificial intelligence etc., to name a few. We will continue to expand our portfolio in AWS at scale. This role provides an excellent opportunity to be part of this amazing journey of building the new digital platform in AWS cloud, while working on interesting challenges with opportunities to continuously learn.

Role Description

• Play a crucial role in contributing to the vision of proactive operations and engineering excellence in operations
• Contribute hands-on in the transformation, development and establishment of DevOps engineering practices in the organization
• Work in close collaboration between the global and regional DevOps units to streamline, standardize and enhance the DevOps practices and processes
• Being part of the DevOps digital delivery platforms & Cloud Operations CoE, this role will need to collaborate closely with units like Cybersecurity, Architecture and agile execution teams to build solutions addressing the common shared goals of the cloud platform
• Contribute to the high availability and operational efficiency of the solutions by pushing continuous improvements in application/infrastructure monitoring
• Hands-on contribution in critical aspects of cloud platform engineering like platform level cross region backup & restore, security, infrastructure as code, monitoring infrastructure etc.,
• Contribute to platform scalability and operational architecture
• Provide continuous visibility of the operational efficiency to the organization through building and orchestrating automated data collection and visualization of key performance indicators 

Education & Experience

• University degree in Information technology, engineering or equivalent
• At least 5 years of experience in technical operation roles in complex projects/solutions
• Prior experience in working on large scale production systems in technical operations and platform engineering

Desired skills

• Mandatory
  • Very good knowledge & hands-on experience in Key foundational services in cloud platforms like AWS (preferred), Azure or Google Cloud Platform
  • Key Services like AWS Control Tower, IAM
  • Infrastructure-as-code toolchain like AWS Cloud Formation/CDK/Terraform or similar
  • Setting up and managing modern monitoring tools like AWS CloudWatch, Splunk etc.
  • Setting up & managing CI/CD toolchain like Gitlab (preferred), Jenkins or similar in large projects with automated guard rails
  • Git based SCM tools with best software development practices well versed in various branching, versioning & tagging strategies
  • Platform engineering aspects like platform scalability, resilience, disaster recovery, security etc.
  • Strong scripting skills (Python) and ability to build scalable software delivery pipelines

• Nice to Have
  • Prior development experience in Java, JavaScript & TypeScript will be a plus
  • Strong willingness and attitude to continuously learn and adapt

At KONE, we are focused on creating an innovative and collaborative working culture where we value the contribution of each individual. Employee engagement is a key focus area for us and we encourage participation and the sharing of information and ideas. Sustainability is an integral part of our culture and the daily practice. We follow ethical business practices and we seek to develop a culture of working together where co-workers trust and respect each other and good performance is recognized. In being a great place to work, we are proud to offer a range of experiences and opportunities that will help you to achieve your career and personal goals and enable you to live a healthy and balanced life.

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