Senior Cloud Engineer

Role Overview

• Troubleshooting of database and infrastructure issues on services you provide
• Manage capacity and availability to ensure resilience and cost effectiveness
• Provide input into the design, development and implementation of automation and tooling for data engineering teams to achieve their goals.
• Work closely with peers in data engineering teams to implement solutions that are scalable, secure, and easily maintained.
• Disaster Recovery planning, testing and execution in combination with engineering teams
• Design, implement and run resilient highly available solutions
• Implement monitoring, health check scripts, functional and load testing
• Use modern ‘infrastructure as code’ and orchestration tools to reduce manual operations where practically possible
• Plan, organize and communicate project status
• Share knowledge and skills with other team members

Requirements

• Excellent knowledge of Public Cloud technology – we use AWS with RDS, S3, ES, API Gateway, Redshift, Lambda, SQS & EC2 being the core services we depend on.
• Excellent knowledge of Database Technologies & Architectures DBA expertise supporting large scale databases such as SQL Server, Redshift or PostgreSQL; preferably data warehouses
• AWS certified Engineer or equivalent commercial experience
• Some experience developing scalable and resilient APIs, systems and services for cloud platforms
• Strong understanding of techniques and strategies for maintaining high availability
• Strong experience in automated deployment of infrastructure and applications
• Strong scripting/programming skills in at least one language such as Python and PowerShell
• Experienced in collaborative development – performing code reviews and automating via deployment pipelines, such as Jenkins, Gitlab CI or AWS CodePipeline
• Excellent Windows & Linux systems knowledge and great application troubleshooting skills
• Good networking skills; route tables, Firewalls & understanding load balancing technologies
• Good knowledge of log, monitoring and alerting platforms such as AWS CloudWatch, Spotlight, ELK, Prometheus
• Good understanding of Security and Compliance challenges and how to reduce scope and increase protection – we deal with PCI, SOX and GDPR on some of our systems
• Technical writing skills for documenting environments and procedures
• Self-motivated, energetic, and tenacious.
• Able to work as part of a team as well as independently.
• Strong organizational skills and time management.
• A desire to learn and use a broad range of skills in a highly complex environment.
• Excellent analytical, problem solving and resolution skills.
• Passionate about automation and tooling.

Tech Stack

• Amazon Redshift
• AWS
• Cloud
• EC2
• Firewalls
• Jenkins
• Linux
• Postgres
• Prometheus
• Python
• SQL

Benefits

• Medical, Vision and Dental benefits for you and your family, including Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) and Health Savings Accounts (HSAs)
• Generous paid time off policy including paid holidays, sick time and paid days off for your birthday
• Free concert tickets
• 401(k) program with company match
• Stock Program
• New parent programs & support including caregiver leave and childcare cash
• Infertility support
• Tuition reimbursement
• Student loan repayment
• Internal growth and development programs & trainings
• Volunteer time off
• Crowdfunding network