Senior Cloud Engineer

Role Summary

As a Senior Cloud Engineer , you will be at the forefront of developing and maintaining the infrastructure that powers Snapp 's cutting-edge cloud technologies. You will drive the automation and optimization of deployment, scaling, and maintenance processes, ensuring that Snapp ’s cloud environment remains scalable, resilient, and up-to-date.

Cloud Infrastructure Automation: Develop and manage infrastructure automation using tools like Ansible, Terraform, Helm charts, and Golang to scale and maintain the cloud environment efficiently.

Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC): Apply best practices in Infrastructure-as-Code, automating cloud operations to improve deployment speed and reduce errors.

Innovating with Open-Source Technologies: Investigate and integrate new open-source tools and technologies to enhance cloud capabilities and introduce new features.

Issue Resolution & Maintenance: Troubleshoot and resolve issues in the cloud, ensuring the continued smooth operation of critical components and keeping them up-to-date.

Working with Cutting-Edge Technologies: Work with technologies such as OpenShift Kubernetes Distribution (OKD), OpenStack, Ceph, and Kubernetes.

Collaboration & Support: Collaborate with other teams, contribute to documentation, and assist developers by providing best practices for deploying and maintaining services on the cloud platform.

Runbook Contributions: Contribute to runbooks and participate in the on-call rotation to ensure system reliability.

Monitoring & Alerting: Work with advanced monitoring and alerting systems to ensure the health and performance of cloud services.

Requirements

• Cloud Technologies Expertise: Strong experience with Linux , networking , and OpenStack , Ceph , including deploying, configuring, and managing clusters.
• Experience with Cloud Platforms: Knowledge of Kubernetes , OKD , and familiarity with GitOps methodologies.
• Programming Skills: Familiarity with Programming (preferably Golang): experience with writing k8s controllers/operators and Prometheus exporters.
• Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools like Terraform and Ansible is a plus.
• Problem Solving: A sharp analytical mindset with the ability to troubleshoot, identify root causes, and resolve complex issues within the cloud infrastructure.
• Team Collaboration: Ability to work effectively within a team, support users, and help build new cloud features.
• Adaptability & Learning: Quick to learn new technologies and tools, staying ahead of the curve to drive improvements in cloud services.