Cloud Engineer

• Function as a key member of the team responsible for the day-to-day, 24x7x365 on-call engineering, system administration, and operation of Paybox Cloud systems.
• Provide review and input into the design of new technical features and architectural changes to the systems.
• Define and implement best practices around various operation processes.
• Perform periodic software updates to systems, and address security vulnerabilities.
• Scale infrastructure to meet growing capacity and launch new applications in both private and public clouds.
• Lead troubleshooting efforts to find root causes and corrective actions throughout the life of a project.
• Develop tools to automate builds and continuous integration using Octopus Deploy, Jenkins, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.
• Develop monitoring solutions and appropriate metrics to measure performance and efficiency of applications using the ELK stack and/or Datadog.
• Own the day-to-day health, uptime, monitoring, and reliability of services.
• Participation in an on-call rotation for after-hours coverage as needed.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Position may require some travel.

Desired Background

• Certification: AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, related field or equivalent experience.
• 3 years experience in a 247 high-availability production environment.
• 3 years experience with System Engineering in private and/or public cloud data center environments.
• 5 years experience working with Windows and Linux based server systems such as Windows Server 2008 2016, CentOS, CoreOS, and Ubuntu.
• In depth understanding of TCP/IP LAN/WAN networking technologies and troubleshooting techniques.
• Experience with infrastructure health monitoring and capacity planning using tools such as Solarwinds Orion, Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch, Datadog, etc.
• Experience with hardware or software-based firewalls, load balancers and proxy servers.
• Experience with intrusion detection systems and network and server security hardening.
• Experience with virtualization technologies such as VMWare and KVM.
• Experience with container management platforms (Kubernetes) and container runtimes (Docker).
• Good knowledge of languages such as Python, JavaScript and PowerShell.
• Excellent organizational skills, and oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision, making decisions based upon priorities, schedules and an understanding of business initiatives.
• Critical attention to detail, thoroughness and documentation.

Preferred Qualifications

• Certification: AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional.
• Previous DevOps experience to act as liaison between development and quality assurance teams as part of the SDLC process.
• Experience with public cloud service providers such as Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Google Cloud Platform, etc.
• Experience with deploying server workloads in a multi-tier architecture.
• Experience in REST and SOAP distributed application troubleshooting.
• Experience with cloud data protection and backup operations to support DR/BCP solutions for cloud workloads.
• Experience with relational and NoSQL database technologies.
• Extensive experience with configuration management and infrastructure as code using YAML and tools such as SaltStack, Ansible, Terraform, CloudFormation.
• Experience with CI/CD and automated software delivery pipelines using tools such as Octopus Deploy, Jenkins and Terraform.
• Experience monitoring solutions and appropriate metrics to measure performance and efficiency of applications using tools such as ELK stack and/or Datadog.
• Experience with source control systems such as VSTS, Azure DevOps and Git.
• Experience in monitoring, metrics collection, and reporting using open source tools.
• Good knowledge in automating the management of a data center environment.