Position: Cloud Platform Engineers (AWS DevOps)
Company: Luxoft
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

Responsibilities:
Essential Day-to-Day Responsibilities
Technology (60%)
• Take lead on closely working with architects and other team members and groups to develop and build complex cloud services and capabilities that meet the needs of product engineering and delivery groups
• Drive interactions with our community of technologists to describe & own the work produced by team
• Ongoing support and development of cloud services including working with product development groups to build cloud-aware applications
• Develop automated processes to prevent, identify, and fix problems that impact service availability
• Develop, document, and operate toolkits for the provisioning and managing of cloud infrastructure
• Maintain an understanding of industry trends and how new technologies can be leveraged to meet business objectives
• Work as part of a larger SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) team to provide operations support for our AWS accounts, this includes being part of an on call rota as 3rd line cloud platform support
• Identify and deliver improvements across a broad range of areas such as cost savings, security, ease of use, & reliability. Take ownership of these and drive to completion.
Leadership & Communication (25%)
• Work with and help lead a virtual team to deliver business unit priority work
• Help to identify and champion priority workloads with the wider Cloud organisation
• Be an active participant in SCRUM sessions with the team and participate in wider team direction setting
• Communicate effectively and professionally with internal customers, management, and other Cloud teams dispersed across the globe
• Collaborate with cloud platform architects and other cloud and engineering teams to translate high level technical requirements and in turn define infrastructure changes
• Participate in meetings with internal customers and effectively negotiate expectations
• Provide metrics around reliability, stability, and performance of our infrastructure
• Set individual & team goals that are consistent with business goals.
Business Acumen and Strategy (15%)
• Develop a broad knowledge of business strategies and product portfolio
• Innovate new and improved uses of technology to meet business objectives
• Understand the impact of new technologies and their technical impacts to supported systems
• Collaborate with peers, architects and managers to understand the strategy and how best to operationalise it across the cloud environments
Mandatory Skills Description:
• Substantial related technology experience
• Experienced in leading cross functional teams
• Proven track record of delivering goals
• Experienced in writing clean code in Python
• Experienced with Terraform
• Knowledge of these public cloud service providers: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure
• Experienced in infrastructure as code and version control system technologies such as Terraform & Git
• Knowledge & Experience of modern agile development methodologies
• Exposure to DevOps practices and automation of software testing, delivery, and infrastructure changes
• Strong passion for technology, a willingness to learn new skills and the ability to evangelize the uses of cloud services
• Self-motivated and self-directed, ability to translate technical direction into functional solutions
• Ability to work effectively in a globally distributed team, managing multiple priorities while collaborating with cross-functional teams
• Proven ability to investigate complex issues spanning multiple technologies and drive to completion
• Excellent communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills