Job description

The Cloud Infrastructure Engineer is responsible for managing IT infrastructure, systems, applications, and operations procedures, designing scalable, resilient cloud systems with a focus on automation wherever appropriate and being an SME for Azure. Areas of focus for automation include routine tasks, monitoring and notification creation, error recovery to meet 99.9% 24/7 uptime requirements for all resources that make up our Microsoft Azure Production and UAT environments. Responsibilities will include timely issue resolution for production interruptions; proactively designing infrastructure for availability, security, and efficiency; maintenance of operating systems and applications through patches or upgrades; assisting the Application Delivery group with issue identification and data collection; and reporting of all issues to management and key stakeholders.

Candidate must have strong communication and technical skills as well as the ability to work well in a team environment and prioritize automation over manual actions. They must possess a desire to gain a deeper understanding of how each system and technology reacts to environmental changes and how this impacts usability. The ability to handle aggressive timelines and focus under pressure is a must.

• Monitoring
• Monitor system health, performance and capacity
• Identify new checks to proactively notify impending system or environment failures or capacity limitations
• Use automation and scripting to create self-healing systems
• Environment Design
• Designs infrastructure to meet business and technical need with focus on resiliency, scalability and reliability
• Conduct regular scalability and expansion planning
• Identify potential environmental instabilities
• Maintenance
• Manage system availability to performance standards
• Manage proactive maintenance schedules
• Create tools and systems to eliminate repetitive, tedious or error-prone tasks
• Vendor Management
• Manage vendor support cases to address incidents
• Manage vendor requests for capacity/capability planning
• Security and Compliance
• Ensure managed environments follow our client’s Information Security Policy
• Support SOC 2 Type II and PCI Level 1 compliance
• Ability to participate in a 24×7 on-call rotation

The Requirements:

• Public cloud experience with a focus on PaaS and Cloud Native offerings, 2-4 years
• Production server system administration and operations experience, Windows or Linux, 2 or more years
• Bash or PowerShell scripting experience, 2-4 years
• Experience supporting 24×7 production services
• Bachelor’s Degree and 3-7 years of related work experience
• Experience with automated tools (Terraform, Ansible, etc)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Self-motivated with attention to detail
• Desire to continuously learn
• Desire to mentor team members
• Strong problem-solving skills with focus on risk management and planning

Preferred:

• Experience managing cloud infrastructure (security groups, peering, routing, VPNs, load balancers, etc)
• Cloud certification
• Computer Science degree
• Experience with PKI Infrastructures, server certificates, certificate authorities.
• Experience working in a change-controlled environment

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: €65,000.00-€70,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Work from home

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Reference ID: Cloud INF - ENG - TS - 1022

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