Cloud Architectural Expert
This is a managerial position that requires the ability to multitask, work independently, and collaboratively with teams. As a key member of our technology group, you will play a vital role in designing and developing cloud architectures for protecting business-critical data and assets.
You will contribute expertise and provide overall guidance on best practices across all business groups. This position involves leading a team of Infrastructure Engineers and being directly involved in priority setting.
Key Responsibilities:
* Design, deliver, and manage engineering approaches, standards, and tooling for relevant platforms.
* Govern, design, deliver, and support engineering tooling platforms that drive best practice and agile ways of working for Service Management.
* Act as platform owner for DevOps tooling and platforms, ensuring prioritization reflects business and technology strategy and goals.
* Provide engineering expertise for appropriate products to contribute to all services, including ownership of backlogs (where appropriate).
* Act as a resolver group, participating in incident and problem management for in-scope services.
* Develop strong relationships with partners to drive value.
* Realize opportunities to simplify and consolidate product solutions.
* Drive the optimum level of automation and instrumentation of the development lifecycle for in-scope products.
* Manage third-party relationships (where appropriate), licensing, contract renewals, and vendor sourcing options.
* Liaise with product communities and customers.
* Adopt continuous DevSecOps improvements.
* Strive to drive innovation and provide differing use cases across the area.
* Have your team design and build infrastructure as code using industry best-practice frameworks and languages such as Terraform and Python.
* Drive adoption of all things Cloud Native and an understanding of the GitOps methodology.
* Ensure all aspects are automated and focus on efficiency.
* Manage a team of Infrastructure Engineers, providing technical guidance and mentorship to engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, innovation, and continuous learning.
* Prioritize the backlog of work in assistance with the Directory of Engineering.
* Build the team around Agile and perform Scrum, Sprint planning, and Backlog grooming.
Required Skills:
* In-depth experience with administering Linux and Windows systems.
* In-depth experience with core AWS services, including VPC, TGW, A|E|NLB, IAM, KMS, EC2, Config, CloudTrail, CloudFormation, Lambda, and others.
* In-depth experience with core Google Cloud services, including Compute, IAM, VPC, Cloud Run, and GKE.
* In-depth experience working with container and serverless technology.
* Solid scripting/programming experience with Shell, Python, Ruby, or NodeJS.
* In-depth experience with monitoring, logging, and management tools, such as Cloudwatch, Splunk, SumoLogic, StackDriver, and New Relic.
* Experience with SQL and relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Redis).
* Experience working with Atlassian products, such as Jira and Confluence.
* Experience in managing code within the SDLC methodology.
* A firm understanding of code source control concepts, particularly using GIT repository.
* Proven ability to write both customer-facing and technical documentation.
* In-depth experience in cloud-based security vulnerabilities identification and remediation.
* In-depth experience building AWS cloud automated policies targeted for governance using native services, such as Lambda, CloudWatch, and DynamoDB.
* Experience in leading others to work at their best in implementing new technology solutions.
* Experience in Agile methodologies, such as Sprint planning.
Desirable Soft Skills:
* Strong written and verbal communication skills.
* The ability to follow assigned tasks to full completion.
* Show creativity to find non-obvious solutions to given problems.
* The ability to hold constructive discussions with fellow team members.
* The ability to work independently or part of a team as required.
* The ability to provide training, coaching, and mentoring to more junior members of the team.
About Our Company:
We are a global media and information services company focused on creating and distributing authoritative and engaging content to consumers worldwide.