Octro - Senior Cloud Engineer (5-8 yrs)

Job Description :

The main responsibilities of a Senior Cloud Engineer :

- Support the creation of a cloud environment together with the existing Cloud Architecture & SOC taskforces

- Assist deploying and configuring the solutions

- Provide daily support & service for the cloud infrastructure on which the security tools will be operated

- Deliver continuous improvement & maintenance of the cloud environment

- Create an automation framework and tooling for use in the cloud environment

- Create and update the cloud environment documentation

- Collaborate closely with the SOC Development and Administration and SOC Endpoint Protection teams in how the cloud platform and applications running on it, are managed.

- Support the team in day to day activities;

- Collaborate with the SOC and IT Security teams and management in other ongoing initiatives.

Qualifications :

Minimum of 5+ years of professional consulting or enterprise experience as a Cloud Support Engineer/Architect.

Required :

- Experience in the design of cloud-based environments

- Public cloud platform expert knowledge, especially AWS (GCP or Azure is a plus)

- Background of a Linux/Windows system administrator

- Understanding of Next Gen Data Centre Networks (Cisco ACI)

- Have an understanding of on-premises technologies (e. g. VMware)

- Configuration management systems (e. g. Ansible, Chef, Puppet, VRA or similar) and container technologies (e. g. Kubernetes, Mesosphere, Docker Swarm)

- Understanding of CI/CD environments

- Understanding of security, network, virtualization, load balancing, storage and database (on premise and in the cloud)

- Solid understanding of how to secure cloud services and data

- All in all, have a solid engineering/technical background/hands-on experience with conceptualizing, strategizing and architecting cloud solutions.

- Experience in the cloud incident detection and handling

- Experience in designing and executing cloud related processes

- Experience in designing and executing cloud related programs

- Relevant Cloud Certifications such as MCSE: Cloud Platform and Infrastructure, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, AWS CSA Professional.