Responsibilities
- Design, automate and manage a highly available and scalable cloud deployment that allows development teams to deploy and run their services.
- Collaborating with engineering and Architects teams to evaluate and identify optimal cloud solutions, also leveraging scalability, high-performance and security.
- Modernise existing on-prem solution and improving existing systems.
- Extensively automated deployments and managed applications in GCP.
- Developing and maintaining cloud solutions in accordance with best practices.
- Ensuring efficient functioning of data storage and processing functions in accordance with company security policies and best practices in cloud security.
- Collaborate with Engineering teams to identify optimization strategies, help develop self-healing capabilities
- Designing and architecting middleware solutions that align with the overall system architecture and meet business requirements. This involves selecting the appropriate middleware technologies and patterns for seamless integration.
- Writing code and configuring middleware components to enable communication and data flow between various systems. This includes developing APIs, message queues, and other middleware services.
- Integrating different applications and services using middleware technologies, ensuring they can communicate effectively and exchange data in a standardized manner.
- Identifying and resolving issues related to middleware, such as communication failures, performance bottlenecks, or data inconsistencies.
- Experience in developing a strong observability capabilities
- Identifying, analysing, and resolving infrastructure vulnerabilities and application deployment issues.
- Regularly reviewing existing systems and making recommendations for improvements.
Qualifications
- Proven work experience in designing, deploying and operating mid to large scale public cloud environments.
- Proven work experience in provisioning Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform Enterprise or community edition.
- Proven work experience in writing custom terraform providers/plug-ins with Sentinel Policy as Code
- Proven work experience in containerisation via Docker
- Good to have strong working experience in Virtualisation via Kubernetes (image building, k8s schedule)
- Experience in package, config and deployment management via Helm, Kustomize, ArgoCD.
- Strong knowledge in Github, DevOps (Tekton / GCP Cloud Build is an advantage)
- Should be proficient in scripting and coding, that include traditional languages like Java, Python, GoLang, JS and Node.js.
- Proven working experience in Messaging Middleware - Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, Apache ActiveMQ
- Proven working experience in API gateway, Apigee is an advantage.
- Proven working experience in API development, REST.
- Proven working experience in Sec and IAM, SSL/TLS, OAuth and JWT.
- Extensive knowledge and hands-on experience in Grafana and Prometheus micro libraries.
- Experience in self hosted private / public cloud setup.
- Exposure to Cloud Monitoring and logging.
- Experience with distributed storage technologies like NFS, HDFS, Ceph, S3 as well as dynamic resource management frameworks (Mesos, Kubernetes, Yarn)
- Experience with automation tools should be a priority
- Professional Certification is an advantage
- Public Cloud >> GCP is a good to have.
Preferred Qualifications
- Previous success in Cloud Engineering, DevSecOps.
- Must have 5+ experience DevSecOPs
- Must have minimum 3+ experience in cloud Engineering