Typical Day in Role:
• Participating in design discussions focused on scalability, design, and implementation best practices.
• Ensuring software, programs and applications are developed and/or configured to meet high availability, integrity, and reliability requirements.
• Participating in planning, retrospective sessions, attending stand-ups, etc.
• Supporting application teams on the use of cloud platform including providing guidance on design patterns, best practices, and security considerations.
• Level 3 support responsibilities are required.
• Design and manage Cloud Services – Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) & Platform as a Service (PaaS)
• You thrive on the detailed design & deployment of cloud services; the same in the design & implementation of automated delivery pipelines for the cloud services.
• You can work with engineers and architects on breaking-down, scoping, and estimating tasks.
• You are proficient in providing Level 3 support for developed Cloud Services.
• You can develop & document operational procedures for service operations teams.
Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:
1) 3+ years of hands-on technical working experience in Cloud Services (Azure, AWS, GCP), with at least 1+ with Google Cloud Platform.
2) 2+ years of hands-on technical working experience in HashiCorp’s Terraform in implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) delivery pipelines e.g. Terraform modules, Terraform Cloud
2) 2+ years’ experience with Compute (Linux Virtual Machines, Disks, VM Manager, GCVE)
3) 2+ years’ experience with Containerization (Docker, Google Kubernetes Engine)
Nice-To-Have Skills:
1) 2+ years of hands-on technical working experience of using Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) Tools (e.g., GitHub Enterprise and/or Azure DevOps) for the purposes of maintaining pipelines
2) 1+ years of experience with development languages (Python, Powershell,GO etc.) – scripts in GCP written in Python, developed using CI/CD pipelines, from Ops POV if issues with scripts, they should be able to resolve issues in scripts; Go is related to Kubernetes
3) 1+ years of hands-on technical working experience in the use of Configuration Management & Automation tools (e.g., Saltstack, Perforce’s Puppet and/or Red Hat Ansible and/or Progress® Chef®).
4) 2+ years of hands-on technical working experience with Bash and/or Powershell to develop automation & deployment utilities
5) 2+ years’ experience Storage Services (Persistent Disks, Backup and DR Service, Cloud Storage)
Soft Skills Required:
• Self-sufficient, works under the supervision of a more senior engineer.
• Strong communication skills, both written and spoken; of specific importance the strong communication to a technical audience.
• Attention to details, high standards for quality.
• Writing and maintaining related documentation.
Education:
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field (master’s degree preferred).