Cloud Engineer

Role Description:

• Microsoft Azure, Terraform, GitLab/GitHub, Unix/Linux, Windows

Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities:

• Responsibility for implementing and maintaining a set of Azure public cloud services (PaaS, IaaS), including all types of operating systems.
• Responsibilities also include ensuring an appropriate level of security, regular patching and vulnerability mitigation, and configuring network elements in Azure. Participation in the appropriate role in IT Service Management processes, cooperation with the team of cloud engineers and other teams in the IT Department at ERGO Hestia (architecture, security, DevOps, FinOps).

REQUIRED SKILLS & TOOLS

• Managing public cloud resources (development, maintenance, reconfiguration)
• coordination in the area of infrastructure creation, automation and maintenance through Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Jenkins, Git, GitHub Actions) and infrastructure automation/configuration (e.g. Ansible, Terraform, PowerShell)
• administration and configuration of operating systems (Windows, Linux)
• support the architecture department in the design of new services and the modification of existing services for the public cloud environment used in the organization,
• create and develop monitoring of public cloud resources
• recommend new solutions that will improve the performance of the current public cloud infrastructure services configuration

Key Competencies & Skills required

Technical Skills:

• knowledge and experience in implementing and managing Azure cloud services
• knowledge and experience in managing Linux/Unix/Windows operating systems - managing Azure cloud services using IaC (infrastructure as Code) pipelines with terraform
• knowledge of ITSM process standards such as ITIL/COBIT - knowledge of DevOps working model and tools

Nice to have:

• Kubernetes
• advanced Azure networking knowledge

Behavioral Skills:

• Good interpersonal, communication and organizational skills relevant to the role.
• Willingness to learn and quickly adapt to changing requirements.
• Proactive approach to identifying issues and presenting solutions and options
• Ability to direct and guide teams as relevant

Previous Experience & Qualifications

Minimum Educational Qualification:

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science /Engineering/Information Technology
• Candidate with non-computer science degree must have minimum 1 year of relevant experience
• MBA in IT / Insurance/Finance can also apply for Requirements Engineer and Test Engineer role.

Certification if any:

• Microsoft AZ-900, AZ-104 (nice to have: AZ-700, AZ-400)

Years Experience & Knowledge:

• Candidate should have minimum 3 years technical experience.