Cloud Engineer

As a Cloud Engineer, you will help the platform team attain maturity in the cloud technology stack, architecture and DevOps practices with the goal to create high-quality and secure enterprise grade products.

Key Tasks And Responsibilities:

• Working with product teams to understand their infrastructure and hosting needs and develop standardized re-usable modules using code with well architected practices and security.
• Understanding the technology roadmap and aligning the DevOps implementation within the product teams.
• Propose DevOps technology solutions and take the lead in evaluating and implementing them.
• Maintaining the availability of the platform components and identifying the enhancements and leading the implementation for that.

Key Technical Skills Required:

• Extensive experience with AWS Cloud Provider and its services like, but not limited to compute, networks, storage, databases, analytics.
• Extensive experience in Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment techniques and tools like Jenkins, Spinnaker, Nexus, etc.

Experienced in:

• source code systems and branching strategies
• Containerization technologies like Docker and its orchestration using Kubernetes
• Collaboration, tracking and documentation JIRA, Confluence
• Infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure as a Code Terraform, Cloudformation
• Application monitoring and logging ELK, Grafana, Prometheus, AWS Cloudwatch
• Networking concepts Access Control Lists, Bastion Hosts, Reverse Proxies, Forward Proxies, Load balancing
• One or more programming or scripting languages like Shell, Python, GoLang, Java
• Configuration Management Chef, Ansible

We advocate cloud platform security and hence you should have experience/familiarity with:

• Cloud Network security
• Secure SDLC practices
• Data security
• Authentication and Authorization
• Web Application Firewall
• Application workload security using hardening methodologies, vulnerability scanning
• A good understanding of distributed systems and microservices.

Kubernetes mandatory

Key Soft Skills Required:

• Keen interest in new technology and ability to assess the potential impact of emerging technologies
• Must be proactive, show initiative and desire to understand the business
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English
• Proven ability to contribute in a team-oriented environment

Academic & Professional Qualifications:

• Degree in computer science or similar field of study.
• Good to have Industry level certifications (eg. AWS, Kubernetes)