Cloud Engineer
The Cloud engineer will be part of the Digital and Information Technology team. He/She will be working closely with cross functional teams to plan, develop, implement, optimize, and maintain cloud-based solutions. The selected candidate will be responsible for deploying and debugging cloud stacks, educating the IT Team on new cloud initiatives, ensuring cloud infrastructure security, as well as identifying the most optimal cloud-based solutions for the organization and maintain cloud infrastructure in accordance with best practices and company security policies.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Evaluate and assess on-premise IT infrastructure’s posture and provide cost effective cloud migration recommendations and viable architecture design for specific internal and public facing applications
- Implement stable, secure, efficient and reliable Cloud infrastructure and operations
- Implement and maintain custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower the human intervention time on any tasks.
- Integrate third party applications with Azure AD cloud-based directory to streamline the application access management and identify protection into single a solution
- Responsible for managing and supporting cloud functionalities and operations based on industry standards, best practices and service level agreements
- Perform daily performance and utilization monitoring, analysis, and maintenance of the Cloud System infrastructure to ensure service uptime, optimized utilization and throughput.
- Support onboarding new applications and workloads into the Cloud service provider (Azure or AWS)
- Ensure cloud and resource workloads are deployed in compliance to company policies & guidelines
- Support, troubleshoot, performs root cause analysis, implements corrective/preventive actions during and after an incident
- Actively monitor control and optimize Azure/ AWS Cloud costs
- Continuously evaluate and assess company’s IT cloud Infrastructure posture in terms of cost, security and performance and provide improvement plans
- Responsible for confidentiality, integrity and availability of data in the cloud platform, as well as ensure proper and secure cloud backup mechanism in place
- Provide backup assistance to manage hyper-converged infrastructure and VMware virtualizations
- Administer and manage central monitoring tool such as content delivery network, DDOS protection and web application firewall service
- Work with Cyber security specialist to evaluate, implement and enhance the Cloud security, network perimeter security and endpoint security
REQUIREMENTS
- A recognized diploma/degree in Information Technology
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate OR AWS Certified SysOps Administrator preferred.
- Minimum 1 year of Hands-on experience in managing cloud services including open source infrastructure as code software tool such as Terraform, software development, system engineering and work with major Cloud Provider such as Azure, AWS and Google.
- Understanding of architecture and design in server and cloud technologies
- Experience with building CI/CD tools: GIT, Jenkins, Consul, Vault, Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible, Elk, Prometheus/Grafana etc
- Experience with scripting and automation tools
- Good knowledge in Virtualization, VMWare or equivalent;
- Strong knowledge of systems and networking software, hardware and networking protocol; IT operations best practices
- System administration and IT certifications in Linux, Microsoft or other network related fields preferred
