Cloud Engineer

A crucial part of the role is coordination with different teams within R&D and organisation through all phases of a software development life cycle. 

Additionally, this person will be responsible for:  

• Assistance with Cloud Engineering culture adoption 

• Keeping a “customer first” mindset to satisfy the needs of their internal clients. 

• Focus on configuration, documentation, optimization, and support of the infrastructure components. 

The role requires an individual who is a critical thinker with problem-solving skills. Experience with developing and evolving continuous integration, delivery and deployment processes is critical. 

The role holder will Get comfortable not having all the answers. As a Cloud engineer, you will be researching and learning constantly. Demonstrate that you are eager to learn by volunteering for projects and tasks. Collaboration and communication, effectively with your co-workers and stakeholders throughout the business. 

Experience/Knowledge You Will Need: 

Candidates should ideally have: 

Essential: 

• Degree in Computer Science or related field.  

• More than 2 years of experience in a Cloud Engineering or related role.  

• Experience with developing and evolving continuous integration, delivery, and deployment processes.  

• Hands-on experience with continuous integration and delivery toolsets (e.g.: Jenkins, GitOps, Octopus Deploy, etc.).  

• Amazon Web Services (e.g.: EC2, S3, VPC, Security Groups, etc.). 

• Good knowledge of Containers (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS) 

• Good knowledge of Infrastructure As Code (e.g.: Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Packer) 

• Good knowledge of infrastructure setup and administration (e.g.: Working with VMs, configuring the operating system, Windows, Amazon Linux, etc.).  

• Good knowledge of version control system (e.g.: GitHub, Git). 

• Proficient with scripting (e.g.: PowerShell 7, batch files). 

• Configuration management tools (e.g.: Ansible).  

• Webservers including IIS, Nginx.  

• Motivated, self-organized, thorough, quality oriented and proactive.  

• Good communication skills, able to coordinate and work with multiple teams at the same time.  

• Strong spoken and written English language skills 

Desirable: 

• More than 3 years of experience in a Cloud Engineering or related role. 

• Hands-on knowledge of the Cloud Engineering culture and principles. 

• Basic knowledge of setting up DB servers (e.g.: MS SQL Server, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL, etc.). 

• Up-to-date knowledge of cybersecurity threats, current best practices, and the latest software/tools used for security across the entire SDLC. 

• An understanding of the tools being used across the CI/CD cycle, and also the security capabilities and requirements of AWS and other cloud-based platforms.