Cloud Platform Engineer

About The Job

The IT Public Cloud team is seeking a Cloud Platform Engineer to design, deploy, and manage cloud infrastructure that supports scalable, secure, and highly available applications. In this role, you will work within a small team of system and cloud engineers to understand the interdependencies between public and private cloud platforms, define platform requirements, and implement enterprise-grade cloud solutions.

You will collaborate with internal and external teams to optimize cloud resources, automate workflows, and enhance system performance. The ideal candidate has hands-on experience with major cloud providers, strong Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) expertise, and a passion for automation and operational excellence.

What will you do?

• Deploy, manage, and optimize cloud environments (AWS, IBM Cloud, Azure, and GCP) to ensure reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure automation using tools like Ansible Automation Platform and Terraform.
• Implement and maintain intelligent infrastructure and application monitoring designed to enable application engineering teams
• Implement cloud security best practices, IAM policies, network security, and ensure compliance with industry standards.
• Set up observability tools (e.g. Splunk, Splunk IM, etc) to monitor cloud services, troubleshoot performance issues, and enhance system efficiency.
• Work closely with development, security, and operations teams to provide cloud solutions that align with business and workload needs.
• Investigate and resolve cloud infrastructure issues, ensuring high availability and minimal downtime. Help and develop peers’ capabilities through knowledge sharing, mentoring, and collaboration
• Participate in a regular on-call schedule, supporting the operation needs of our tenants
• Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems
• Work within a small agile team to develop and improve SRE methodologies, support your peers, plan and self-improve
  
  

What will you bring?

• 3-5 years of experience in cloud management, DevOps, or system administration managing cloud-based production platforms or internally hosted services and platforms.
• 3+ years of experience in using cloud providers and technologies (AWS, IBM Cloud, GCP, Azure, etc.)
• Strong experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, similar tools, and configuration management tools like Ansible, Puppet, or Chef.
• Proficiency in Python, Bash, or PowerShell for automation, plus experience with object-oriented programming languages.
• Experience with enterprise monitoring tools (CloudWatch, Datadog, Prometheus, Splunk) and troubleshooting system issues to ensure high availability and performance.
• Basic knowledge of enterprise security requirements.
• Solid understanding of cloud networking (VPCs, subnets, firewalls) and security best practices (IAM, encryption, SIEM).
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or similar tools.
• Experience with Git and repository management, with strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams.
• Strong troubleshooting skills and the ability to work effectively with development and operations teams.
• Independent problem-solving and self-direction
• Works well alone and as part of a global team
• Experience working with Agile development methodologies
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Azure Administrator, or Google Cloud Associate Engineer.
• Experience with hybrid cloud or multi-cloud environments.
• Familiarity with serverless computing (AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, GCP Cloud Functions).
• Experience working in Agile or DevOps-focused teams.
  
  

About Red Hat

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