Senior Cloud Engineer

Job Title

Senior Cloud Engineer

Job Description

So, who are we?

Hello, we re IG Group. No, not Instagram - though were a pretty big deal ourselves.

We re a global, FTSE 250-listed company made up of a collection of progressive fintech brands in the world of online trading and investing. The best part? We ve snapped up many awards for our top-class platforms, forward-thinking products, and incredible employee experiences.

We believe in financial freedom. And our purpose is to help ambitious people achieve it. Around 400,000 people use our groundbreaking technology and forward-thinking platforms to trade the financial products they know and love. Did we mention we have offices in 18 countries? Yes, when you join IG Group, youll have the chance to work across multiple brands, with people all over the world. Join us for an exciting future and let s innovate together!

Your role in the Team

• The Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer will participate in design, deployment & operation of IaaS &PaaS on a multi-cloud platform (AWS, GCP)
• Design and implement cloud best practices, and applications migrations into the AWS/GCP cloud platforms.
• Manage the cloud environments, formalize it using IAC, and connect with the on-prem infrastructure.
• Provide tools for continuous delivery, management, and audit of the AWS/GCP cloud.
• Create automation of repetitive processes, and hand them over to the development teams

What you ll do

• Senior Cloud Engineer should design and automate the process with proper tools.
• Developing appropriate DevOps channels throughout the organization.
• Evaluating, implementing and streamlining DevOps practices.
• Establishing a continuous build environment to accelerate software deployment and development processes.
• Engineering general and effective processes.
• Helping operation and development teams to solve their problems.
• Handling cloud-based environments - Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Handling automated deployment CI/CD tools
• Supervising, Examining and Handling technical operations.
• Providing a DevOps Process and Operations.
• Capacity to handle teams with leadership attitude.

Who we re looking for?

You re curious about things like the client experience, the rapid developments in tech, and the complex world of fintech regulation. You re also a confident, creative thinker with a knack for innovating. We know that you know every problem has a solution. Here, you can try new ideas and lead the way in creating inspiring experiences for our clients and everyone around you.

We don t fit the corporate stereotype. If you want to work for a traditional, suit-and-tie corporate that just gives you a pay cheque at the end of the month, we might not be for you. But, if you have that IG Group energy and you can stand behind what we believe in, let s raise the bar together.

What you ll need for this role

• 11+ years of experience of which at least 4 years in design and administering complex cloud Infrastructure platforms (AWS, GCP).
• 4+ years of experience in Infrastructure As Code (Terraform/Ansible/CDK/Pulumi, etc ), on-prem/cloud Kubernetes administration.
• Must have DevSecOps skills required (CI\CD, Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Gitlab, Bitbucket, Artifactory, Python, Git ,etc.)
• Solid working knowledge of networking technologies including Layer-2, Layer-3 protocols (BGP, OSPF, MPLS)
• Deep understanding of services like VPC, Direct Connect, Transit Gateways, VPN (AWS, GCP & Azure)
• Good understanding on the IaaS, PaaS layers

• Drive initiatives to identify right set of cloud technologies/ provider to be used for specific type of solutions and drive the effort to templatize and automate those technologies to be used at scale in all products and applications across the organization.
• Define and implement the relevant monitoring and alerting.
• Write and maintain technical documentation, for internal use and for other stakeholders.
• Experience on architecting Kubernetes ecosystem, including competing technologies (deployment, configuration, scaling and management of containerized applications)
• Strong Knowledge & experience in building Kubernetes environment and it is monitoring
• Experience in managing Kubernetes clusters, building docker images
• Experience in Kubernetes networking, load balancer, pod security and certificate management, Service Mesh (Istio or Linkerd preferred), API Gateways, Network proxies, etc.
• Experience with managed Kubernetes services, EKS (preferred), AKS or GKE.
• Bash and any scripting language (preferably Python or Go)

How you ll grow

When you join IG Group, we want you to have more than a job - we want you to have a career. And you can. If you spot an opportunity, we want you to chase it. Stretch yourself, challenge your self-beliefs and go for the things you dream of. With internal and external learning opportunities, and the tools to help you skyrocket to success, we ll support you all the way.

And these opportunities truly are endless because we have some bold targets. We plan to expand our global presence, increase revenue growth, and ultimately deliver the world s best trading experience. We d love to have you along for the ride.

The perks

• It really is more than a job. We ll recognize your talent and make sure that you can still have a life - at work, and outside of it. Networks, committees, awards, sports and social clubs, mentorships, volunteering opportunities, extra time off the list goes on.
• Matched giving for your fundraising activity
• Flexible working hours and work-from-home opportunities
• Performance-related bonuses
• Insurance and medical plans
• Career-focused technical and leadership trainings in-class and online, including un limited access to LinkedIn

Learning platform

• Contribution to gym memberships and more
• A day off on your birthday
• Two days volunteering leave per year

Where you ll work

We follow a hybrid working model; we reckon it s the best of both worlds. This model also feeds into our secret ingredients for innovation: diversity, flexibility, and close connection. Plus, you ll be welcomed into a diverse and inclusive workforce with a lot of creative energy.

Ask our employees what their favorite thing is about working at IG, and you ll hear an echo of our culture ! That s because you can come to work as your authentic self. The things that make you, you - like your ethnicity, sexual orientation, faith, age, gender identity/expression or physical capacity - can bring a fresh perspective or new skill to our business.

That s why we welcome people from various walks of life; and anyone who wants to help us realize our vision and strategy.

So, if you re keen to connect with our values, and lead the charge on innovation, you know what to do.

Number of openings

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