Senior Cloud Engineer

What you will be doing:

• Build and maintain client relationships, providing technical leadership and guidance for current projects.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business requirements, assist in project planning, and document project plans for both small and medium-sized projects.
• Participate in and support sprint planning activities with the Project Manager, including story point estimation and ceremonies such as standups, backlog grooming, and retrospectives.
• Design and implement technical solutions for customer projects, ensuring scalability and efficiency.
• Create or contribute to building technical design documents and other necessary documentation for projects.
• Write testable, high-performance, reliable, and maintainable code for CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code frameworks (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Design and implement security and network software components for multi-cloud solutions and architectures.
• Research, evaluate, and recommend third-party software and technology packages based on project requirements. Provide performance optimization recommendations and document best practices.
• Create cloud migration strategies and plans, following best practices and ensuring smooth transitions to cloud architectures.
• Develop automated provisioning solutions for servers, environments, containers, and data centers.

What we need from you:

• Experience with engineering solutions on major cloud provider platforms, preferably Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and one or both of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure.
• Hands-on experience with operating system platform configuration, tuning, and administration for Linux or Windows, with a preference for both.
• Strong understanding of application performance and design best practices to ensure applications and services are highly available, performant, scalable, and secure.
• High proficiency with open-source tools, including Hashicorp solutions such as Terraform, Packer, and Vault, along with other deployment frameworks like Pulumi.
• Proficiency in at least one popular programming language (e.g., Go, Java, Python, Ruby, Rust).
• Solid understanding of testing techniques and frameworks, including test and behavior-driven development, with experience in writing test suites, mocks, and fixtures.
• Capability to write scripts for maintenance, automation, and data processing using scripting languages such as Bash, Groovy, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, PowerShell, or R.
• Experience with common configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Chef, Puppet).
• Strong knowledge of automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications, ideally with hands-on experience using Kubernetes and tools like Helm.
• Exposure to Anthos is a plus.
• Skilled in common CI/CD tools, patterns, and techniques, with familiarity in pipeline enablement products such as ArgoCD, Azure DevOps, Cloud Build, GitLab, or Jenkins.
• Understanding of development methods, workflows, and patterns, particularly Agile and DevOps practices.
• Experience with stream-processing platforms and services, such as Kafka and Cloud Pub/Sub.
• Solid understanding of data security principles, including encryption, access control, and identity management, and their technical application to enforce data custodianship and compliance.
• Experience with on-premise architectures and visualization applications such as vCenter
• Experience in MLOPs is a plus.

What do you get in return?

• Love your career: Competitive total rewards and salary package. Blog during work hours; take a day off and volunteer for your favorite charity.
• Love your work/life balance: Flexibly work remotely from your home, there’s no daily travel requirement to an office! All you need is a stable internet connection.
•  Love your coworkers: Collaborate with some of the best and brightest in the industry!
• Love your development: Hone your skills or learn new ones with our substantial training allowance; participate in professional development days, attend training, become certified, whatever you like!
•  Love your workspace: We give you all the equipment you need to work from home including a laptop with your choice of OS, and an annual budget to personalize your work environment!  
• Love yourself: Pythian cares about the health and well-being of our team. You will have an annual wellness budget to make yourself a priority (use it on gym memberships, massages, fitness and more). Additionally, you will receive a generous amount of paid vacation and sick days, as well as a day off to volunteer for your favorite charity.