Cloud SRE Specialist

Experienced engineer that is required to work on public cloud projects with opportunities to work on both Azure and AWS in a global financial organization. That is focused on improving operational stability and reliability.

This role requires the successful candidate to have:
-Prior SRE experience or the willingness to specialize in the field
-Experience in transforming IT Service Delivery to one of a Devops culture
-Strong infrastructure, development and Devops skills
-Proven track record of service ownership, accountability and building trusted relationships
-Experience in Change and Incident Management concepts Primary responsibilities
-Work in a globally distributed team to provide innovative and robust public Cloud solutions
-Collaborate with vendors to develop and deploy Cloud services to meet customer expectations
-Collaborate with IT Security to ensure necessary controls to Cloud services are deployed and tested
-Design, optimize and document the operational aspects of the Cloud platform
-Develop Infra as Code to automate cloud deployments
-Develop automation workflows in CI/CD pipeline adhering to change management process
-Facilitate tabletop exercises for incident management processes, chaos engineering
-Evaluate and implement emerging Devops tools
-Complex troubleshooting of on-premise and cloud environment issues
-Build and integrate observability into cloud platforms and solutions
-Highlight and reduce toil with automation, architecture improvements, and process improvements

Required Skills
-Experience with Infrastructure as Code
-Experience with CI/CD pipelines
-Sound knowledge of server infrastructure and cloud computing
-Good knowledge of security (SAML, OAuth, OpenID, Kerberos, Policies, entitlements etc.)
-Experience with architecting and maintaining high availability production systems
-Strong development skills in Python
-Experience in software installation, configuration and patching
-Hands on experience in playbook and infrastructure automation (Ansible, Terraform)
-Implementing open source observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, or Open Telemetry)
-Experience with Agile and DevOps methodologies
-Developing monitoring architecture and implementing monitoring agents, dashboards, escalations and alerts
-Ability to communicate technical issues and ideas to colleagues and customers with clarity
-Experience creating technical architecture documentation

Desired Skills
-Knowledge of security controls for the Public cloud (encryption of data in motion/rest and key management)
-Hands-on experience with Azure and/or AWS design and implementation
-Knowledge of Linux and Windows containers
-Experience with Open Source Cloud and configuration management tools (Terraform)
-Bachelor degree in a related field