Senior Cloud Engineer, Platform Engineering

The Team:

Join a team renowned for its expertise, innovation, and passion. As part of our agile product development group, youll work with cutting-edge technology to drive insights into global capital markets and the financial services industry. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a fast-growing global organization, collaborating closely with talented colleagues and stakeholders to achieve ambitious goals.

Your Impact:

As a Cloud Platform Engineer, you will play a critical role in designing, deploying, and managing cloud infrastructure and applications, ensuring reliability, scalability, and efficiency. You will work with AWS (preferred), GCP, and Azure, leveraging automation and best practices to streamline operations and optimize cloud environments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Cloud Infrastructure Management: Architect, implement, and maintain cloud-based solutions across AWS, GCP, and Azure, with a focus on high availability, fault tolerance, and scalability. (AWS preferred)
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Develop and manage cloud resources using Terraform to automate deployments efficiently.
• Containerization & Orchestration: Configure and manage containerized environments using containerization platform (preferred) and container orchestration platform.
• CI/CD & Automation: Build and maintain continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) pipelines using GitHub Actions, TeamCity, or Azure DevOps.
• Security & Compliance: Ensure cloud environments align with industry standards and company security policies.
• Monitoring & Optimization: Monitor cloud infrastructure, implement performance improvements, and drive cost efficiencies.
• Collaboration & Mentorship: Work closely with development teams to architect cloud solutions and provide technical guidance to junior engineers.

What Were Looking For:

• Experience: 6-10 years in DevOps/Cloud Platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• DevOps & CI/CD Expertise: Strong knowledge of DevOps principles and experience with CI/CD pipelines, particularly GitHub Actions.
• Programming & Automation: Proficiency in Python/Bash/Powershell for scripting and automation.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Hands-on experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar IaC tools.
• Operating Systems: Comfortable working with both Windows and Linux environments.
• Agile Development: Experience in Agile methodologies for software development.
• Networking Knowledge: Solid understanding of cloud networking, including VPCs, subnetting, routing, and connectivity troubleshooting.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Software Development Background: Prior experience as a software developer or working closely with development teams, with strong understanding of application architecture and code deployment best practices.
• Experience with container orchestration platform and containerization tools
• Hands-on experience with AWS Lambda or Azure Functions.
• Strong knowledge of logging, tracing, and debugging using CloudWatch, Splunk, DataDog, or similar tools.
• Familiarity with AWS Managed Active Directory or Azure Active Directory configuration.