Remote Senior Cloud Engineer

Description:

• As a Senior Cloud Engineer at Pythian, you will build high-quality solutions to help customers achieve their business objectives.
• You will work independently or as part of a team to understand project trajectories, provide insights on implementation details, and deliver consistent, high-quality solutions leveraging automation.
• Your responsibilities will include building and maintaining client relationships, providing technical leadership and guidance for current projects.
• You will collaborate with stakeholders to understand business requirements, assist in project planning, and document project plans for both small and medium-sized projects.
• Participation in sprint planning activities with the Project Manager, including story point estimation and ceremonies such as standups, backlog grooming, and retrospectives, is expected.
• You will design and implement technical solutions for customer projects, ensuring scalability and efficiency.
• Creating or contributing to technical design documents and other necessary documentation for projects is part of your role.
• Writing testable, high-performance, reliable, and maintainable code for CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code frameworks (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation) is required.
• You will design and implement security and network software components for multi-cloud solutions and architectures.
• Researching, evaluating, and recommending third-party software and technology packages based on project requirements is essential.
• You will create cloud migration strategies and plans, following best practices to ensure smooth transitions to cloud architectures.
• Developing automated provisioning solutions for servers, environments, containers, and data centers is also part of your responsibilities.

Requirements:

• You must have experience with engineering solutions on major cloud provider platforms, preferably Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and one or both of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure.
• Hands-on experience with operating system platform configuration, tuning, and administration for Linux or Windows is required, with a preference for both.
• A strong understanding of application performance and design best practices to ensure applications and services are highly available, performant, scalable, and secure is necessary.
• High proficiency with open-source tools, including Hashicorp solutions such as Terraform, Packer, and Vault, along with other deployment frameworks like Pulumi, is expected.
• You should be proficient in at least one popular programming language (e.g., Go, Java, Python, Ruby, Rust).
• A solid understanding of testing techniques and frameworks, including test and behavior-driven development, with experience in writing test suites, mocks, and fixtures is required.
• You must have the capability to write scripts for maintenance, automation, and data processing using scripting languages such as Bash, Groovy, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, PowerShell, or R.
• Experience with common configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Chef, Puppet) is necessary.
• Strong knowledge of automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications, ideally with hands-on experience using Kubernetes and tools like Helm, is required.
• Exposure to Anthos is a plus.
• You should be skilled in common CI/CD tools, patterns, and techniques, with familiarity in pipeline enablement products such as ArgoCD, Azure DevOps, Cloud Build, GitLab, or Jenkins.
• An understanding of development methods, workflows, and patterns, particularly Agile and DevOps practices, is necessary.
• Experience with stream-processing platforms and services, such as Kafka and Cloud Pub/Sub, is required.
• A solid understanding of data security principles, including encryption, access control, and identity management, and their technical application to enforce data custodianship and compliance is essential.
• Experience with on-premise architectures and visualization applications such as vCenter is required.
• Experience in MLOPs is a plus.

Benefits:

• You will receive a competitive total rewards and salary package, along with the opportunity to blog during work hours and take a day off to volunteer for your favorite charity.
• The position offers flexible remote work from home, with no daily travel requirement to an office, provided you have a stable internet connection.
• You will have the chance to collaborate with some of the best and brightest in the industry.
• A substantial training allowance is provided to hone your skills or learn new ones, along with participation in professional development days, training, and certification opportunities.
• Pythian provides all the necessary equipment to work from home, including a laptop with your choice of OS, and an annual budget to personalize your work environment.
• The company cares about the health and well-being of its team, offering an annual wellness budget for gym memberships, massages, fitness, and more, along with a generous amount of paid vacation and sick days, as well as a day off to volunteer for your favorite charity.