Job Title: Cloud Engineer / Cloud Deployment Specialist.
Department: Brisbane Cloud Team (team of 3).
Reporting to: Cloud Director, US headquarters.
Work type: Onsite, office-based, permanent, full-time role.
Site: Newstead (Brisbane).
Responsibilities
- Work as a part of the cloud application deployment team to deploy SaaS based applications in the AWS hosted environments.
- Pro-actively identify problems and/or gaps in deployed applications and infrastructure and develop and/or coordinate with other IT teams for preventive measures.
- Assist in the roll-out and deployment of new product features and installations to facilitate our rapid iteration and constant growth.
- Identify ways to resolve common issues by developing and deploying automation to respond to common human interactions.
- Work closely with development teams to ensure that platforms are designed with "operability" and “observability” in mind.
- Function well in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s in computer science or equivalent industry experience.
- Several years of working experience as a software developer, AWS Cloud Engineer, or AWS infrastructure engineer.
- Several years of hands-on experience managing Kubernetes clusters hosted Docker containerized applications.
- Working knowledge and experience with Helm charts.
- Several years of hand-on experience managing and troubleshooting Linux servers.
- Strong problem-solving skills.
- Demonstrable experience working with Remote Monitoring and Logging tools, including but not limited to Dynatrace and Pingdom.
Preferred Qualifications
- Strong interpersonal communication skills (including listening, speaking, and writing) and ability to work well in a diverse, team-focused environment with other SREs, Developers, IT Operations, and Engineers.
- Knowledge of data structures, relational and non-relational databases, networking, Linux internals, filesystems, web architecture, and related topics.
- Programming or scripting experience in Terraform and Python highly desirable.
- Kubernetes Certified Administrator or related certification a plus.