Sr. Cloud Engineer

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Job Summary

Job Description

Key Accountabilities

• Lead the design development and maintenance of the companys platform infrastructure using cloud services and automation tools
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to a team of engineers fostering a collaborative and innovative work environment
• Collaborate with software engineering and security teams to define platform requirements and ensure compliance with best practices
• Drive architectural decisions and implement solutions that ensure scalability performance and security
• Monitor and optimize the platforms health performance and cost-efficiency making proactive recommendations for improvement
• Develop and maintain automated processes for deploying testing and monitoring the platform
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues with the platform infrastructure including network storage and compute resources
• Keep informed of industry trends emerging technologies and their potential impact or benefit to platform
• Evaluate and champion infrastructure technologies tools and services to improve platform performance scalability and reliability
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define and prioritize platform roadmap and initiatives
• Document knowledge articles and work instructions

Education Experience & Skill Requirements

• Experienced gained through college degree programs and or certifications in Computer Science Information Technology or related fields.
• 5-7 years of experience in platform engineering cloud infrastructure or related field
• Strong experience with cloud computing platforms (AWS Azure or similar)
• Strong experience with infrastructure automation tools (Terraform Ansible or similar)
• Strong experience with containerization and container orchestration platforms (Docker Kubernetes or similar)
• Proven experience leading and mentoring a team of engineers
• Expert-level knowledge of networking security and system administration concepts
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced dynamic and rapidly evolving environment
• Strong organizational and project management skills

• Need in depth understanding and implementation experience of service mesh.
• Experience with self managed implementation of data engineering tools for workflow orchestration (Airflow Kubeflow etc.)
• Strong experience with implementation and solutioning of DevOps based automation tools ( Jenkins GitLab etc.)
• Strong experience implementing and migrating AWS databases (Aurora Global DB cluster Postgres RDS or similar)
• Need strong knowledge on Vulnerability management (Image scanning Ivanti sentinel)
• Proven experience with solutioning GitOps declarative tools for Continuous delivery in Kubernetes such as ArgoCD.
• Strong knowledge and implementation experience of infrastructure monitoring tools such as Signoz
• Knowledge of implementing APIs for Secret management (Fast API etc.)
• Experience of creating custom AMIs for AWS or Azure by implementing tools such as Packer
• Experience in solutioning multi region AWS infrastructure deployment.

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