Cloud Architect

Job Title: Cloud Architect
Job type:12 months+ extension
Job Location: Ireland/Remote

Company Overview:
Our client has its headquarters in Munich, Germany. It is an IT service provider that delivers IT solutions driving the group's digitalization. With more than 13,000 employees in over 20 countries worldwide.

Responsibilities:

• Optimization of the existing Azure infrastructure - taking into consideration its cost and performance. This will include scaling the infrastructure when needed using the Terraform and Ansible scripts.
• Performing regular activities: passwords and certificates rotation, servers' patching and security updates.
• Managing Kubernetes clusters, reverse proxies, databases and other components of the test and live applications.
• Troubleshooting production and test environments' errors based on the created logs, metrics, and alerts; plus: co-creation of new tools (if needed) to speed-up the troubleshooting.
• Planning and performing changes across all environments (including Live / Production systems) - as requested by the Product team.
• Creating and updating existing tools, which would automate all the routine activities.

Experience Requirements:

• 3+ years of experience inCloud- preferably Azure, but could any other Cloud Environment; main concepts:
  • Ideas around Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, Continuous Delivery and Deployment
  • Virtualization
  • Managed Databases
  • Secrets management
• Linux hands-on experience - preferablyRedHat. That includes:
  • Installation and Maintenance, including regular patching.
  • Networking - understanding of the most common protocols: TCP/IP, DNS, ICMP, HTTP, SSL/TLS, etc.
  • Containerization - Docker, Contained or other.
• Good understanding of the Microservices architecture
• Experience with one of the modern high-level programming languages: C#, Java or similar.
• Experience with the relational databases.
• Hands-on building build and release pipelines (Azure Devops, Jenkins / Cloud Bees or other).
• User of the logging and monitoring tools - either: ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Dynatrace or other.

If you are interested in this role or would like to discuss it further, please call Nidhi at +353 1 645 5244 or email nidhi.tripathi@experis.ie.