Sr Cloud Engineer

Overview

Sr Cloud Engineer ( Night Shift, timings 5.00pm IST to 2.30am IST)

GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES: This role involves owning a cloud-based enterprise application. The role is responsible for ensuring security, availability, and performance of the application while responding to changing business and regulatory needs. Serve as a technical visionary for the enterprise application ecosystem. Your goal is to eliminate systemic friction and align technical investments with long-term business goals.

Responsibilities

• Own a Managed File Transfer platform hosted in Kubernetes
• Ensure the security of application data in a highly regulated environment
• Leverage automated tools to ensure availability and performance of all application components
• Thoroughly troubleshoot issues, determine root causes, and create mitigations, all while communicating proactively with affected teams
• Work with internal and external customers to explore new use-cases and execute onboarding plans
• Ensure application upgrades are deployed in a timely manner with minimal downtime
• Manage internal admins of the application
• Create and maintain automation to meet various objectives
• Create documentation for best practices, important processes, issue mitigations, etc.
• Respond to issues with a level of urgency appropriate for the business impact
  
  

• Strong problem-solving capability, including leveraging of monitoring tools to gather information
• Understanding of public cloud concepts and technologies
• Understanding of containerization and container orchestration
• Scripting capability, ideally with Bash and Python
• Understanding of networking concepts including firewalls, load balancers, DNS
• Understanding of relational databases
• Systems mindset with an ability to understand architectures and consider system-level concerns
• Sense of curiosity and willingness to self-direct learning
• Experience with Terraform or another IaC technology
  
  

• 3+ Year of experience with GCP or AWS, certification.
• 3+ Year of experience with Kubernetes or strong willingness to learn
• 3-5 Years of experience developing or monitoring critical applications
• 3-5 Years of experience in data center domains (server, network, storage, security)
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Ability to apply critical thinking to all aspects of the position
• Detail oriented with excellent documentation skills