Cloud Platform Engineer

About the Job:

The IT Public Cloud team is seeking a Cloud Platform Engineer to design deploy and manage cloud infrastructure that supports scalable secure and highly available applications. In this role you will work within a small team of system and cloud engineers to understand the interdependencies between public and private cloud platforms define platform requirements and implement enterprisegrade cloud solutions.

You will collaborate with internal and external teams to optimize cloud resources automate workflows and enhance system performance. The ideal candidate has handson experience with major cloud providers strong InfrastructureasCode (IaC) expertise and a passion for automation and operational excellence.

What will you do

• Deploy manage and optimize cloud environments (AWS IBM Cloud Azure and GCP) to ensure reliability scalability and cost efficiency.

• Develop and maintain infrastructure automation using tools like Ansible Automation Platform and Terraform.

• Implement and maintain intelligent infrastructure and application monitoring designed to enable application engineering teams

• Implement cloud security best practices IAM policies network security and ensure compliance with industry standards.

• Set up observability tools (e.g. Splunk Splunk IM etc) to monitor cloud services troubleshoot performance issues and enhance system efficiency.

• Work closely with development security and operations teams to provide cloud solutions that align with business and workload needs.

• Investigate and resolve cloud infrastructure issues ensuring high availability and minimal downtime.
  Help and develop peers capabilities through knowledge sharing mentoring and collaboration

• Participate in a regular oncall schedule supporting the operation needs of our tenants

• Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems

• Work within a small agile team to develop and improve SRE methodologies support your peers plan and selfimprove

What will you bring

• 35 years of experience in cloud management DevOps or system administration managing cloudbased production platforms or internally hosted services and platforms.

• 3 years of experience in using cloud providers and technologies (AWS IBM Cloud GCP Azure etc.

• Strong experience with Terraform CloudFormation similar tools and configuration management tools like Ansible Puppet or Chef.

• Proficiency in Python Bash or PowerShell for automation plus experience with objectoriented programming languages.

• Experience with enterprise monitoring tools (CloudWatch Datadog Prometheus Splunk) and troubleshooting system issues to ensure high availability and performance.

• Basic knowledge of enterprise security requirements.

• Solid understanding of cloud networking (VPCs subnets firewalls) and security best practices (IAM encryption SIEM).

• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions Jenkins GitLab CI/CD or similar tools.

• Experience with Git and repository management with strong problemsolving skills and the ability to work effectively in crossfunctional teams.

• Strong troubleshooting skills and the ability to work effectively with development and operations teams.

• Independent problemsolving and selfdirection

• Works well alone and as part of a global team

• Experience working with Agile development methodologies

Preferred Qualifications:

• Certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect Azure Administrator or Google Cloud Associate Engineer.

• Experience with hybrid cloud or multicloud environments.

• Familiarity with serverless computing (AWS Lambda Azure Functions GCP Cloud Functions).

• Experience working in Agile or DevOpsfocused teams.

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