Cloud Engineer

Role Summary

We are looking for a skilled Senior Cloud Engineer with 68 years of experience to join our team focusing on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Microsoft Azure. You will be responsible for building and managing modern automated cloudnative infrastructure and application pipelines for our banking clients. This role involves collaborating with product teams to deliver functionality in a repeatable and automated manner as well as migrating legacy infrastructure to a more modular structure.

Key Activities

• Infrastructure Management: Build and manage automated cloudnative infrastructure and application pipelines on GCP and Azure.
• Tooling Development: Develop and codify shared tooling for repeatable build and deploy patterns for use across the organization.
• Legacy Migration: Migrate legacy infrastructure code and delivery pipelines to a modular structure.
• Continuous Improvement: Understand existing infrastructure as code and proactively contribute to improvements.
• Team Collaboration: Work within product teams to deliver functionality in a repeatable and automated manner.
• Operational Support: Participate in weekly team prioritization release and change management meetings.
• Service Levels: Set up and help achieve service level objectives and indicators for infrastructure and application components.
• Oncall Rotation: Participate in oncall rotation supporting hybrid GCP/Azure infrastructure.
• Crossfunctional Collaboration: Collaborate closely with development teams in our fastpaced delivery environment.
• Tool Identification: Identify new tooling that reduces toil based on organizational and technical gaps.

Required Skills

• Cloud Engineering: 68 years of experience with a focus on GCP and Azure.
• Automation and IaC: Experience with technology best practices for building a modern automated platform belief in full automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Architectural Design: Ability to design and document cloudnative architectural patterns and take ownership.
• Financial Services Knowledge: Financial services background specifically in banking is highly advantageous especially regarding security compliance and audit.
• Scalability and Fault Tolerance: Good understanding of technologies and experience in building highly scalable and faulttolerant systems in hybrid environments.
• Initiative: Selfstarter capable of working without direction and delivering projects from scratch within at times unstructured environments.
• Migration Experience: Experience with migrations (onprem to cloud code bases technology).
• Handson Skills: Handson ability with IaC cloud build and management tools.
• Container Expertise: Container management and container orchestration expertise.
• Monitoring and Alerting: Understanding and ideas for successful monitoring and alerting.
• Messaging Systems: Strong messaging systems knowledge preferably Kafka; alternatively Solace/RabbitMQ/Azure Event Hubs.
• Communication: Ability to communicate effectively with different stakeholders have fresh ideas and be pragmatic.

Nicetohave requirements

• Relevant Tools Experience:
  • IaC Tools: HashiCorp Terraform Vault Packer Cloud (or similar SaaS terraform vendor) Ansible Pulumi multiple GCP and Azure services.
  • Pipeline Tools: GitLab Azure DevOps TeamCity Jenkins Nexus/Artifactory SonarQube Snyk OPA.
  • Runtime Tools: Docker Kubernetes service mesh (e.g. Istio Linkerd) SQL/RDBMS (especially PostgreSQL) ELK Prometheus Grafana Kafka or Azure Event Hubs RabbitMQ GCP Pub/Sub Nginx.
• Certifications: Relevant cloud certifications (e.g. GCP Professional Cloud Architect Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect).
• Advanced Security Practices: Experience with advanced security practices and compliance requirements.
• Multicloud Experience: Experience in working with other cloud platforms (AWS IBM Cloud etc.).
• Development Background: Background in software development to better collaborate with development

Remote Work :

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