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Job Description

The principal responsibility of this role is to provide support to the business in the adoption of cloud-native applications and services. This encompasses:

• Working in partnership with the business and the technology teams, bringing awareness and insight into the different operational constraints/opportunities for projects targeting cloud-based deployment.
• Governance and maintenance of cloud environments
• support of team mentoring and project coordination
• Communication with cross-functional groups, following DevOps best practices
• a strong focus on service availability and proactive detection of problems

Operational Responsibilities

• Work with business teams on maintaining compliance and security in our cloud space e.g. Patching, Config management
• Ensure monitoring of performance and availability of cloud services, continuously identifying areas of improvement
• Work with a continuous improvement mindset, identifying operational processes that could be improved and drafting proposals.

Knowledge & Experience

• The successful candidate will have a solid background in IT Operation or Software Engineering with an operational mindset.
• Experience of deployment in the cloud (Amazon Web Services/Azure/Google)
• A DevOps mindset; knowledge of agile processes (Kanban / Scrum) is important and familiarity with JIRA is desired
• Ability to work proficiently in a team distributed at multiple locations and time zones

Technical Competencies

The preferred skillset would involve;

• Automation toolset knowledge (Cloudformation/Ansible/Terraform)
• Continuous Integration and Delivery toolset (Jenkins/bitbucket)
• Solid Amazon Web Services knowledge (AWS certified)
• AWS Compliance which involves ensuring our infrastructure is in good shape e.g. EC2 instances are patched.
• AWS Config
• System administration skills with Windows and Linux technology.
• Relational database knowledge is desirable – experience working with various DB technologies such as Oracle, MS SQL Server, MySQL, or PostgreSQL is valuable.
• Monitoring toolset knowledge e.g Prometheus/Pingdom/Grafana
• Git and familiarity with collaboration processes (pull/merge requests, etc.); we manage our infrastructure as code, so being comfortable with scripting languages (bash, python) is important
• Experience with containerization technologies would be advantageous (Docker/Harbor)