Senior Cloud Engineer

Summary

Join Pythian as a Senior Cloud Engineer and build high-quality solutions for our clients, leveraging your expertise in cloud technologies and automation. You will collaborate with stakeholders, design and implement technical solutions, and contribute to the development of CI/CD pipelines. This remote position requires experience with major cloud platforms (preferably GCP, AWS, and Azure), proficiency in scripting and programming languages, and a strong understanding of DevOps principles. Pythian offers a competitive salary and benefits package, including flexible remote work, professional development opportunities, and a focus on employee well-being.

Requirements

• 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
• 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

Responsibilities

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Exposure to Anthos is a plus
• Experience in MLOPs is a plus

Benefits

• Competitive total rewards and salary package
• Flexibly work remotely from your home, there’s no daily travel requirement to an office!
• Hone your skills or learn new ones with our substantial training allowance; participate in professional development days, attend training, become certified, whatever you like!
• 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!
• You will have an annual wellness budget to make yourself a priority (use it on gym memberships, massages, fitness and more)
• You will receive a generous amount of paid vacation and sick days, as well as a day off to volunteer for your favorite charity