Senior Cloud Platform Developer
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Job Description
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About the job
Job Overview
We are seeking a seasoned Cloud Platform Developer to join the Cloud CoE team who are collectively responsible for designing, deploying, managing, and operating the cloud infrastructure platform to support applications and workloads. You will utilize your expertise across major cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, and OCI combined with your knowledge of development and coding, automation tools and infrastructure-as-code practices to engineer modular, secure, scalable, and highly available foundations for cloud-hosted systems. You will have a specific focus on creating and developing a self-service cloud portal that will be used by internal NI team who use cloud to perform self-service tasks such as infrastructure architecture pattern deployment, manage schedules, change SKU type, restart instances, review cost, cloud inventory and view vulnerabilities. The portal will use open-source technologies, cloud API’s, cloud services such as AKS/functions, Typescript, JavaScript, and PaaS Databases.
Responsibilities
- Design and develop a Cloud self-service portal using an opensource product called backstage.io or alternative.
- Work with peers across Group Infrastructure and GT more broadly to agree on portal backlog items that need to be added to the portal as new feature requests.
- Ensure the solution is secure, highly available, and autoscaling infrastructure on cloud.
- Ensure the portal code adheres to the SDLC process and uses a CI/CD toolchain for deployment.
- Strive for bi-weekly releases using agile ways of working.
- Design and implement cloud infrastructure reference architectural blueprints/patterns, infrastructure components, shared services, and provisioning/deployment mechanisms.
- Maintain and support organization’s cloud management platform which provides governance, access controls and automation capabilities.
- Ensure the solution integrates with the broader automation echosystem i.e. BMC Helix, Ansible.
- Monitor key metrics related to capacity, performance, availability, and optimization of cloud resources using native and third-party tools.
- Hold monthly demos of the portal to peers/stakeholders.
- Analyze infrastructure usage trends and recommend backlog items.
- Develop technical standards, policies, and procedures for lifecycle management of cloud resources.
- Work closely across teams like software engineering, security, and analytics to coordinate sharing, integration, and management of infrastructure services.
- Collaborate with infosec and app teams on security controls.
- Maintain up-to-date knowledge of new cloud services, features, security best practices and their application for business workloads.
- Respond promptly to troubleshoot and resolve cloud infrastructure related incidents and service requests.
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Experience/Skills Required
- 3-5 years in the same or very similar role.
- 3-5 years hands-on experience with cloud platform infrastructure deployment/management.
- 3-5 years hands ono experience with Azure, AWS, OCI (in this order of preference).
- Strong experience developing platforms/applications on Public Cloud.
- 3-5 years hands ono experience with Python, TypeScript, JavaScript.
- Strong database experience.
- Strong understanding of infrastructure and cloud security principles and best practice.
- Solid understanding of core infrastructure technologies including Linux, Database, Networking, virtualization, storage.
- Good understanding of infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Ansible, ARM templates)
- Ability to collaborate effectively with technical teams and end-users alike.
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Employment Type
Full Time
