Senior Cloud Engineer

Who are you

We are looking for a motivated Senior Cloud Engineer to join our DevOps and Cloud team based in Lisbon. Cloud Engineer professionals are highly specialized IT professionals who work with organizations to help them implement/support Cloud Infrastructure following DevOps practices and principles. They may also be called upon to provide guidance on how to best use specific tools or technologies to achieve the desired results.

The main responsibilities of the successful candidate include:

• Design and Architecture: Create robust and scalable cloud architectures that align with business requirements, while optimizing cost, performance, and security. Creating documentation for infrastructure design, deployment procedures, disaster recovery plans, and other aspects of the projects.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Write IaC scripts (e.g., using Terraform or CloudFormation) to provision and manage cloud resources efficiently.
• Automation: Automate deployment, scaling, and maintenance processes to enhance operational efficiency. Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate build, test, and deployment processes across multiple environments.
• Application Deployment: Deploy applications to the cloud, ensuring high availability and fault tolerance. Manage Kubernetes clusters, including deployment, scaling, and monitoring of containerized applications. 
• Security: Implement security best practices, including identity and access management (IAM), encryption, and network security and identify security threats and creating solutions to mitigate them.
• Cost Optimization: Monitor resource usage and optimize costs by right-sizing instances and utilizing reserved or spot instances. Lead efforts to optimize Elasticsearch infrastructure, including index management and query optimization. 
• Stay updated: Stay current with emerging technologies and trends in DevOps, cloud computing, and infrastructure automation. 

What can you bring to the table?

Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. Master's degree preferred.

Experience: At least 5 years of experience in a similar role.

Technical Skills:

• A proven track record of designing and implementing complex infrastructure solutions. 
• Strong expertise in cloud platforms, Azure is preferable, others are a plus.  
• Proficiency in containerization technologies such as Docker and container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes. 
• Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform.
•  Demonstrated experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools such as Azure DevOps, GitLab CI/CD, or Jenkins. 
• In-depth knowledge of monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, or Splunk.
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to diagnose and resolve complex issues in a production environment involving all aspects of infrastructure. 
• Previous experience with Networking, like creation and setup of vnet – snet, routes, dns, peerings will be a differencial.
• Implementing High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) solutions to maintain business Data Integrity.
• Strong experience in performance tuning of infrastructure components to optimize resource utilization and improve overall system performance.
• Demonstrated ability to integrate a security-first approach into all aspects of infrastructure and DevOps processes design and implementation.  

Nice to have:

• Experience scripting and programming skills, with proficiency in languages such as Python, Shell, Java or .Net. 
• Experience implementing monitoring and logging solutions to enhance observability and troubleshoot issues proactively. 
• Project management: As a Cloud Engineer, you may be responsible for overseeing the implementation of a company’s DevOps strategy. This may include managing the project team, ensuring the project stays on schedule and within budget and ensuring the project meets its goals. 
• Problem-solving: When teams work together, they often solve complex problems. They use their problem-solving skills to find the best solutions to issues that affect the company’s production and development processes. They also use their problem-solving skills to find solutions to both technical issues as well as process issues that affect the company ability to produce software. 
• Business analysis: A Cloud Engineer might work with a team of other professionals, including software developers, project managers, business analysts and other IT specialists and will need to use akin business analysis skills to help the team understand the needs of the Enhesa and the potential outcomes of their work. 

To be successful in this role, we are looking for somebody who:

• Has excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a cross-functional team environment.
• Is able to work effectively as part of a team, contributing to the team dynamic and resolving conflicts constructively.
• Is a champion of continuous improvement.
• Shows initiative in tackling problems.
• Is fluent in English, while any other language (like Portuguese) is a plus.