Cloud Engineer

Job Description

Responsible for cloud-related activities such as provisioning and configuration cloud resources based on technical architectures and according to security requirements. Assess cloud infrastructure requirements and prepare and rehearse build-up runbooks, and execute runbook activities together with the project team. Follows the principles of well-architecture frameworks across all cloud deployments.

Responsibilities and Expectations

• Create technical documents, diagrams, how-to guides, and other deliverables.
• Design, develop, and implement highly available, multi-region solutions within Microsoft Azure
• Analyse existing operational standards, processes, and/or governance to identify and implement improvements
• Migrate existing infrastructure services to cloud-based solutions
• Manage security and access controls of cloud-based solutions
• Develop infrastructure as code (IaC) leveraging cloud native tooling to ensure automated and consistent platform deployments
• Develop and implement policy driven data protection best practices to ensure cloud solutions are protected from data loss
• Support cloud adoption of applications as they are being transformed and/or modernized
• Ensure all infrastructure components meet proper performance and capacity standards
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation to address and resolve technical escalations
• Use cloud configuration technologies to manage and deploy cloud services. Technologies include: CloudFormation, Terraform and Ansible.
• Monitor site stability, deployments, performance via event logging and metrics (experience with monitoring services like Azure Log Analytics and Elasticsearch)
• Interpersonal Skills: Effective communication, adept at understanding and creating technical documentation. Team-oriented with a friendly approach, capable of meeting project deadlines.
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies.
• Maintain user confidence and protects operations by keeping information confidential.
• Sense of ownership and pride in your performance and its impact on company’s success.
• Critical thinker and problem-solving skills
• Good time-management skills.
• Assist team members in identifying and troubleshooting software defects.
• Team player. Contribute to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.