Principal Cloud Engineer
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Job Description
Position Summary
About the role
Coown our overall infrastructure with the rest of our infrastructure team.
Design and implement the infrastructure needed to support our product teams.
Define and document infrastructure and operational patterns.
Scale our team and infrastructure through automation and proactive improvements.
Contribute to meeting our security standards and compliance requirements.
Measure and improve reliability availability and performance metrics across systems.
Advocate for and implement best practices in reliability and observability.
Participate in oncall rotations to respond to incidents and drive root cause analysis.
About you
Core Skills:
Experience with cloud platforms: Strong experience with AWS GCP or Azure.
Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Experience with tools like Terraform CloudFormation or Opentofu.
Configuration management
Containerization and orchestration: Proficiency with Docker Kubernetes and managed solutions like EKS or GKE.
Scripting and automation: Proficiency in Bash Python or similar languages for automating tasks.
Reliability Engineering Expertise:
Observability: Experience with monitoring and logging tools (e.g. Prometheus Grafana or DataDog).
Incident response: Familiarity with incident management tools like PagerDuty or OpsGenie and experience in postmortem/root cause analysis.
Performance tuning: Knowledge of analyzing and optimizing system performance (e.g. CPU memory storage and network).
Networking and Web Services:
Networking knowledge: Excellent understanding of Internet technologies and protocols (TCP/IP DNS HTTP SSL etc.).
CDNs and DNS: Familiarity with tools like Fastly Cloudflare Akamai or similar.
Cultural Fit and Collaboration:
Passion for automating repetitive tasks to improve efficiency.
A proactive approach to improving systems and processes.
A desire to learn teach and collaborate across teams.
Security and Compliance (Optional but Valued):
Knowledge of infrastructure and application security principles.
Familiarity with compliance frameworks (e.g. SOC 2 ISO 27001) and how they impact infrastructure.
Additional Bonus Skills:
Experience with chaos engineering or resilience testing.
Knowledge of database administration and tuning for reliability.
Familiarity with costoptimization strategies for cloud resources.
Work Location
Mountain View CA Hybrid
What you will have at Harness
- Competitive salary
- Comprehensive healthcare benefits
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Flexible work schedule
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Flexible Time Off and Parental Leave
- Monthly quarterly and annual social and team building events
- Monthly internet reimbursement
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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex or national origin.
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Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full Time
