Remote Senior Cloud Engineer

Description:

• Pythian is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to build high-quality solutions that help customers achieve their business objectives.
• The role involves working independently or as part of a team to understand project trajectories, provide insights on implementation details, and deliver consistent, high-quality solutions leveraging automation.
• Responsibilities include building and maintaining client relationships, providing technical leadership, collaborating with stakeholders to understand business requirements, and assisting in project planning.
• The Senior Cloud Engineer will participate in sprint planning activities, design and implement technical solutions, create technical design documents, and write testable, high-performance code for CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code frameworks.
• The position also requires designing and implementing security and network software components for multi-cloud solutions, researching and recommending third-party software, creating cloud migration strategies, and developing automated provisioning solutions.

Requirements:

• Candidates must have experience 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 is necessary to ensure applications are highly available, performant, scalable, and secure.
• High proficiency with open-source tools, including Hashicorp solutions such as Terraform, Packer, and Vault, is essential.
• Proficiency in at least one popular programming language (e.g., Go, Java, Python, Ruby, Rust) is required.
• Candidates should have a solid understanding of testing techniques and frameworks, including experience in writing test suites, mocks, and fixtures.
• The ability to write scripts for maintenance, automation, and data processing using scripting languages such as Bash, Groovy, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, PowerShell, or R is necessary.
• Experience with common configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Chef, Puppet) is required.
• Strong knowledge of automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications, ideally with hands-on experience using Kubernetes and tools like Helm, is essential.
• Exposure to Anthos is a plus, as is experience with common CI/CD tools and familiarity with Agile and DevOps practices.
• Candidates should have experience with stream-processing platforms and services, such as Kafka and Cloud Pub/Sub, and a solid understanding of data security principles.
• Experience with on-premise architectures and visualization applications such as vCenter is required, and experience in MLOps is a plus.

Benefits:

• Pythian offers a competitive total rewards and salary package, along with the opportunity to take a day off to volunteer for a favorite charity.
• Employees can work flexibly from home without a daily travel requirement to an office, provided they have a stable internet connection.
• The company promotes collaboration with some of the best and brightest in the industry.
• A substantial training allowance is provided for skill development, along with opportunities for professional development days and certifications.
• Pythian supplies all necessary equipment for remote work, including a laptop with the employee's choice of operating system and an annual budget to personalize the workspace.
• 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 generous paid vacation and sick days, and a day off to volunteer for a favorite charity.