Cloud Platform Engineer

The Work

The Cloud Platform Engineer is responsible for all aspects of our Kubernetes and Docker containers. He/she will be responsible for production support, administration, testing, and documenting various aspects of the cloud technology, tools and continuous delivery. He/she will ensure that all reported incidents are triaged and redressed in a timely manner with minimum business impact. In addition, he/she will work with other IT Administrators and vendors to ensure that the company’s applications, servers and systems are maintained as per the bank’s policies and procedures.

The Core Responsibilities!

• Create, implement and manage cloud deployments using Kubernetes and Docker

• Provide expertise for operational management of cloud platform for monitoring, management, disaster recovery, security compliance/auditing, networking, storage, service brokers and build packs

• Develop and deliver configuration and deployment automation through Kubernetes/Docker required for continuously improving the functionality, availability, and manageability of platform and associated services.

• Set up administrator and service accounts, maintaining system documentation and troubleshooting

• Use scripting tools to automate processes

• Develop, update, follow up and implement strategies, action plans, programs or solutions for technological infrastructure operation to ensure consistency and balance between business needs and compliance with requirements and good practices

• Develop performance indicators and monitoring methods. Identify problems and make recommendations to management.

• Maintain Primary and Disaster Recovery sites

• Interface and coordinate with development and technical support teams to resolve issues reported during daily operation

• Project Execution - perform tasks under the directions of the IT Director and/or according to a project plan in a way such that the timeline of the project is observed and the requirements of the task are satisfied

• Research new technologies and provide technical expertise as requested by IT Director

Let's Talk About You!

• College diploma in computer science or equivalent is required. Higher accreditation (e.g., Bachelor of Computer Science) is an asset.

• 5+ years of experience working in an IT capacity

• 5+ years’ technical (OS, network operations, and monitoring) experience within an Enterprise sized business

• 2 years solid hands-on experience cloud deployments to Azure, AWS or GCP

• 2+ years of Kubernetes and Docker experience at an Enterprise scale(highly desirable)

• 1-2 years of experience doing DevOps

• 2+ years of hands-on experience in setting up logging and monitoring using one or more tools like ElasticSearch, Kibana, Filebeat, Logstash, Prometheus and Grafana

• Knowledge of containers, orchestration tools, and container management

• Experience in Service Mesh (Istio or Linkerd)

• Understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle including Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline architecture (Jenkins, Azure Devops) including deployments into Kubernetes environments using tools such as ArgoCD

• Experience in security tool and best practices such as Auqa

• Experience with IaC practice (infrastructure as code)

• Good scripting abilities (PowerShell, Bash, Python, Go, etc.)

• Good problem-solving skills

• Experience working in a banking or financial services environment is desirable