Job description 

About the role :

In this opportunity as a Senior Cloud Engineer, you:

• Have strong technical skills:  You easily learn new technologies.  You are curious and creative and can adapt to existing tech and envision new ways of doing things.
• You focus on continuous improvement and technical standards: You drive improvements in productivity.  You want to learn and develop architectures for new services, prepare technical specifications and set industry best practices.
• You can code: You are comfortable programming in at least one high-level language such as Python, PowerShell, or Ruby and are willing to learn more!
• You are an effective communicator: You can demonstrate effective communication skills to clearly state priorities and provide direction.  You can present complex technical information in clear and easy to understand manner to various audiences.
• You have cloud experience: You have work in the cloud and have experience in at least one of the Big Two clouds (Amazon, Azure) and understand how to leverage cloud technologies to manage systems and infrastructure.
• You are a problem solver: You apply an evidence-based approach to solving service problems in real time to provide the fastest path to recovery.
• We use agile/lean development frameworks like Scrum to manage our work.
• We are driven by quality, not quantity and ensure our services are robust and resilient.
• We automate as much as we can using a heavy integration of pipelines, micro-services, and 3rd party SaaS services and custom software when appropriate.
• We produce a lot of data and work with our analysts to make sense of it.We try to identify trends and find potential issues before they cause problems.
• We understand cloud technologies and platforms such as AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI. We use their APIs and configuration tools.

About You :

• 7+ years progressive technology experience and a drive to build a career working on cloud infrastructure and automation.
• Bachelor of Computer Science or related field; or equivalent level of experience.
• Moderate to advanced coding skills in any high-level or advanced language such as Python, Ruby, PowerShell, .NET, C#, JavaScript, PHP, or Java.
• Experience writing and maintaining cloud automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using technologies such as Terraform, BICEP, or CloudFormation.
• Experience building Machine Images in the cloud.
• A solid understanding of TCP/IP networking.
• Strong Windows or Linux server administration skills.
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker.
• Experience with security concepts in cloud and on the operating system.
• Experience with CI/CD concepts and pipeline development.
• Experience with OS patch management and patch automation.
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills, including the ability to communicate large, complex designs in easy terms.
• Ability to coach other team members, guide them through complex issues, and help up-skill you and your peers.