Role Summary

We are looking for a skilled Senior Cloud Engineer with 6-8 years of experience to join our team, focusing on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Microsoft Azure. You will be responsible for building and managing modern, automated, cloud-native infrastructure and application pipelines for our banking clients. This role involves collaborating with product teams to deliver functionality in a repeatable and automated manner, as well as migrating legacy infrastructure to a more modular structure.

Key Activities

• Infrastructure Management: Build and manage automated, cloud-native infrastructure and application pipelines on GCP and Azure.
• Tooling Development: Develop and codify shared tooling for repeatable build and deploy patterns for use across the organization.
• Legacy Migration: Migrate legacy infrastructure code and delivery pipelines to a modular structure.
• Continuous Improvement: Understand existing infrastructure as code and proactively contribute to improvements.
• Team Collaboration: Work within product teams to deliver functionality in a repeatable and automated manner.
• Operational Support: Participate in weekly team prioritization, release, and change management meetings.
• Service Levels: Set up and help achieve service level objectives and indicators for infrastructure and application components.
• On-call Rotation: Participate in on-call rotation, supporting hybrid GCP/Azure infrastructure.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Collaborate closely with development teams in our fast-paced delivery environment.
• Tool Identification: Identify new tooling that reduces toil based on organizational and technical gaps.

Required Skills

• Cloud Engineering: 6-8 years of experience with a focus on GCP and Azure.
• Automation and IaC: Experience with technology best practices for building a modern automated platform, belief in full automation, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Architectural Design: Ability to design and document cloud-native architectural patterns and take ownership.
• Financial Services Knowledge: Financial services background, specifically in banking, is highly advantageous, especially regarding security, compliance, and audit.
• Scalability and Fault Tolerance: Good understanding of technologies and experience in building highly scalable and fault-tolerant systems in hybrid environments.
• Initiative: Self-starter capable of working without direction and delivering projects from scratch within, at times, unstructured environments.
• Migration Experience: Experience with migrations (on-prem to cloud, code bases, technology).
• Hands-on Skills: Hands-on ability with IaC cloud build and management tools.
• Container Expertise: Container management and container orchestration expertise.
• Monitoring and Alerting: Understanding and ideas for successful monitoring and alerting.
• Messaging Systems: Strong messaging systems knowledge, preferably Kafka; alternatively, Solace/RabbitMQ/Azure Event Hubs.
• Communication: Ability to communicate effectively with different stakeholders, have fresh ideas, and be pragmatic.

Nice-to-have requirements

• Relevant Tools Experience:
  • IaC Tools: HashiCorp Terraform, Vault, Packer, Cloud (or similar SaaS terraform vendor), Ansible, Pulumi, multiple GCP and Azure services.
  • Pipeline Tools: GitLab, Azure DevOps, TeamCity, Jenkins, Nexus/Artifactory, SonarQube, Snyk, OPA.
  • Runtime Tools: Docker, Kubernetes, service mesh (e.g., Istio, Linkerd), SQL/RDBMS (especially PostgreSQL), ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, Kafka or Azure Event Hubs, RabbitMQ, GCP Pub/Sub, Nginx.
• Certifications: Relevant cloud certifications (e.g., GCP Professional Cloud Architect, Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect).
• Advanced Security Practices: Experience with advanced security practices and compliance requirements.
• Multi-cloud Experience: Experience in working with other cloud platforms (AWS, IBM Cloud, etc.).
• Development Background: Background in software development to better collaborate with development