Cloud Engineer 1

Required skills and experience:
1/2 years of experience working with Azure or AWS or any other major cloud platform technologies
Provisioning operating and maintaining systems running on Azure or AWS including deployment/teardown and automation support
Understanding of cloud platforms including IaaS & PaaS components for example: Azure Virtual Machines/EC2 Instances Storage Accounts/S3 buckets Network Security Groups vNets VPCs Azure App Services/AWS Lambda Kubernetes basics etc
Exposure to scripting or automation tools (e.g. PowerShell Python Bash Azure CLI AWS CLI) is desirable
Understanding of Infrastructure as code (IaC) and CI/CD pipeline concepts example: Terraform Gitlab ADO
Good practical experience with Windows and Linux operating systems including administration tasks such as OS configuration patching user management system monitoring and troubleshooting
Knowledge of network (LAN WAN VPN) and web related protocols (e.g. TCP/IP UDP HTTP HTTPS)
Exposure to monitoring tools such as Azure Monitor Log Analytics Application Insights or AWS CloudWatch is desirable
Understanding of backup and patching concepts in cloud environments
Awareness of security concepts such as RBAC IAM roles access provisioning and secure configurations
Good awareness of cloud platform capabilities and willingness to learn new features
Knowledge on installation configuration usage of CLI tools to manage cloud components is desirable
Experience with documentation and following operational runbooks is desirable
Good troubleshooting and analytical skills for cloud issues
Understanding of ITIL/ITSM processes including incident/request management. ServiceNow exposure is a bonus
Good to have: Awareness of AI concepts and their applicability in IT operations (e.g. automation monitoring insights)
Prior experience in Life Sciences area is also a bonus. Other highly regulated industry experience will be considered also

Education/certification:
Degree level educated preferably in science maths or engineering areas.
Azure or AWS Fundamentals level certification is preferred.

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