Cloud Engineer

About the role

A skilled Cloud Engineer who will facilitate the reliability, scalability, and performance of systems by collaborating closely with development and IT operations teams.

Responsibilities

• Establish monitoring and alerting systems to detect issues, respond to incidents, and minimize downtime.
• Evaluate system performance and conduct improvements to ensure high availability, low latency, and efficiency.
• Create automation tools for standard tasks like deployment, scaling, and testing to enhance reliability and reduce human error.
• Estimate resource needs and plan for future growth to ensure the system can handle increased demand.
• Collaborate with development and operations teams to identify and resolve issues, as well as implement fixes to prevent recurrence.
• Establish and maintain clear documentation on system architecture, processes, and incident management.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or relevant field preferred; or equivalent combination of education and experience required.
• At least 4-6 years’ experience as a Site Reliability Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Cloud Engineer, or similar role.
• Strong skills with Windows-based systems, administering hybrid Active Directory environments, and deploying workloads on IaaS cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Strong skills in scripting (PowerShell, Python, Bash, Perl, etc.) and experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) (Terraform, ARM, Bicep, JSON) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong skills in network protocols, DNS, load balancing, and security principles.
• Skilled in enterprise IAM solutions (Microsoft Entra ID) including Single Sign-On Federation using SAML, OIDC/OAuth 2.0.
• Demonstrated experience deploying monitoring, alerting, and reporting solutions for business-critical infrastructure and applications utilizing tools like Prometheus, Grafana, PowerBI, Azure Monitor (Log Analytics, EventHub), Nagios.
• Experience with Git and other version control systems.
• Certifications in cloud platforms are preferred (AWS Certified SysOps Administrator, Azure Administrator Associate, Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, Google Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer).
• Excellent analytical skills, including interpreting customer business needs and translating them into application and operational requirements.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, strong presentation skills, and excellent problem-solving aptitude.
• Ability to work effectively with a wide variety of teams and stakeholders across all levels.
• Experience with technical troubleshooting and managing change, delays, or unexpected events.