Staff Engineer, Cloud Ops

Druva, the autonomous data security company, puts data security on autopilot with a 100% SaaS, fully managed platform to secure and recover data from all threats. The Druva Data Security Cloud ensures the availability, confidentiality, and fidelity of data - providing customers with autonomous protection, rapid incident response, and guaranteed data recovery. The company is trusted by its more than 6,000 customers, including 65 of the Fortune 500, to defend business data in today’s ever-connected world. Amidst a rapidly evolving security landscape, Druva offers a $10 million Data Resiliency Guarantee ensuring customer data is protected and secured against every cyber threat. Visit druva.com and follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.

We are seeking an exceptional Cloud Operations Engineer as we enhance the support model for our SaaS platform. If you are eager to work in an environment that is fast paced, complex, large, new technologies, ensures cloud uptime, and enjoys being a team player and work effectively with other members of a global team, this position might be for you. You would be part of a highly talented team contributing to the growth of our clients like NASA, PwC, Xerox, Louis Vuitton etc.

Roles and Responsibilities:

1. Deploy and maintain highly available, scalable, and fault-tolerant cloud infrastructure hosting Druva’s SaaS products on AWS.
2. Familiar with infrastructure provisioning, deployment, and management systems that are built using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform and container orchestration systems such as Amazon ECS.
3. Collaborate with the DevOps team to ensure seamless integration of application deployments with the cloud infrastructure.
4. Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to proactively detect and respond to infrastructure issues.
5. Participate in an on-call rotation to provide 24/7 support and incident management for the production infrastructure.
6. Optimize cloud resource utilization and cost management by implementing best practices and leveraging AWS services and features.
7. Contribute to the development and implementation of automation scripts, tools, and frameworks to streamline cloud operations.
8. Stay up-to-date with the latest AWS services, features, and best practices, and evangelize their adoption within the team.
9. Participate in knowledge sharing sessions, and mentoring junior team members.

Required Skills:

• Must Have Skills:
• 3+ years working within Linux (e.g., Red Hat, CentOS) environments.
•  2+ years hands-on experience of Cloud providers such as Amazon AWS, Google Cloud Platform, or Microsoft Azure.

• Strong in Network Infrastructures.
• Experience with scripting languages such as Python or Shell.

• Good To Have Skills:
• Knowledge of deploying containerized services with Docker and/or Kubernetes.
• SQL / Database knowledge.
• Knowledge of cloud security best practices and experience implementing security measures.
• Cloud Certification such as AWS Cloud Solution Architect – Associate.
• Additional Skills:
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to cloud infrastructure, ensuring high availability and performance.
• Ability to learn new technologies quickly with some support and guidance.
• Requires the ability to multitask and work well under pressure.
• Ability to think outside-of-the-box to generate creative solutions to problems
• Requires excellent communications skills, both verbal and written.