Senior Cloud Engineer

As a Senior Cloud Engineer, you will be at the forefront of developing and maintaining the infrastructure that powers Snapp's cutting-edge cloud technologies. You will drive the automation and optimization of deployment, scaling, and maintenance processes, ensuring that Snapp’s cloud environment remains scalable, resilient, and up-to-date.

• Cloud Infrastructure Automation: Develop and manage infrastructure automation using tools like Ansible, Terraform, Helm charts, and Golang to scale and maintain the cloud environment efficiently.

• Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC): Apply best practices in Infrastructure-as-Code, automating cloud operations to improve deployment speed and reduce errors.

• Innovating with Open-Source Technologies: Investigate and integrate new open-source tools and technologies to enhance cloud capabilities and introduce new features.

• Issue Resolution & Maintenance: Troubleshoot and resolve issues in the cloud, ensuring the continued smooth operation of critical components and keeping them up-to-date.

• Working with Cutting-Edge Technologies: Work with technologies such as OpenShift Kubernetes Distribution (OKD), OpenStack, Ceph, and Kubernetes.

• Collaboration & Support: Collaborate with other teams, contribute to documentation, and assist developers by providing best practices for deploying and maintaining services on the cloud platform.

• Runbook Contributions: Contribute to runbooks and participate in the on-call rotation to ensure system reliability.

• Monitoring & Alerting: Work with advanced monitoring and alerting systems to ensure the health and performance of cloud services.

Requirements

• Cloud Technologies Expertise: Strong experience with Linux, networking, and OpenStack, Ceph, including deploying, configuring, and managing clusters.

• Experience with Cloud Platforms: Knowledge of Kubernetes, OKD, and familiarity with GitOps methodologies.

• Programming Skills: Familiarity with Programming (preferably Golang): experience with writing k8s controllers/operators and Prometheus exporters.

• Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools like Terraform and Ansible is a plus.

• Problem Solving: A sharp analytical mindset with the ability to troubleshoot, identify root causes, and resolve complex issues within the cloud infrastructure.

• Team Collaboration: Ability to work effectively within a team, support users, and help build new cloud features.

• Adaptability & Learning: Quick to learn new technologies and tools, staying ahead of the curve to drive improvements in cloud services.