Position: Senior Cloud Operations Engineer
Company: GT
Experience required: 5y
Category: DevOps
English level: upper
Published: 2022-02-01T00:00:00+02:00

On behalf of **Palo Alto Networks**, GT is looking for a **Senior Cloud Operations Engineer (Cloud Automation)**.

🧰**The client**
  **Palo Alto Networks** is a multinational company with headquarters in Santa Clara, California. Being the global cybersecurity leader Palo Alto Networks provides its services to over 85 thousand customers in more than 150 countries by continually delivering innovation to enable secure digital transformation.

By delivering a comprehensive portfolio of products and empowering a growing ecosystem of partners, they are at the forefront of protecting tens of thousands of organizations across clouds, networks, and mobile devices.

Palo Alto Networks work across a scope of industries from public to private sectors including the federal government, financial services, medical, and manufacturing to mention just a few providing them with the best cybersecurity solutions.

💻**The project**
Currently, they are launching a new project, and they are looking for an experienced CloudOps Engineer to join a team of DevOps engineers to provision, orchestrate, and automate our new initiative: the **AsiaPac IoT solution**.
You will join forces with an established small **team**: 1 tech lead DevOps with design, and execution, 1 security champion to make sure security standards and compliance, 1 extra DevOps team member.

As part of the IoT security cloud infrastructure team, you’ll be working on building our state of art real-time data analytics system and high performant serving system.

⌨️**Tech stack**: Terraform, ansible, Centrify, Jenkins, bamboo, Kafka, spark(EMR), Kubernetes (EKS), etc

**You will be working with the team that is located in Palo Alto, California, so it will require some overlap with PST time zone and possible late nights especially in the beginning**.

⚙️**Responsibilities**:
- Design and implement the highly scalable and easily managed cloud infrastructure for IoT security products; IoT security products exchange IoT intelligence and extend system functionality through integrations with third-party systems like ServiceNow, SIEMs and Cisco/ISE, etc.
- Design and implement cloud automation using Kubernetes, terraform, or cloud formation to renovate a software-described infrastructure
- Develop, run, and maintain existing AWS-based infrastructure, support MongoDB, Kafka, spark, and real-time data streaming applications
- Implement continuous integration/continuous deployment and application monitoring to level up efficiency, stability, and security
- Support real-time data pipeline to power IoT security features

💡**Essential knowledge, skills & experience**:
- Must have BS/MS in Computer Science/Engineering with 4+ years software development experience
- Must have 2+ years working experience with Amazon AWS
- Must have 2+ years of experience building large scale distributed serving system
- Must have experience in Linux and Shell scripting
- Prefer experience of AWS services, monitoring tools, Kubernetes, container, terraform, Jenkins, etc.
- Good communication skills
- Great problem-solving skills
- Upper-intermediate English knowledge

💡**Nice-to-have skills**:
- Experience with Google GCP or MS Azure would be a plus
- Good to have software development experiences with Python, Node, Script, YAML
- Prefer knowledge of service-oriented architecture, microservice development
- Prefer knowledge of build real-time analytics system or machine learning system

💎**Soft skills**
Our client, Palo Alto Networks seeks innovators - engineers who seek to design new products, designing state-of-the-art products that do not exist today. These engineers love to code with a drive to build global products and bring new ideas to develop security disciplines to solve real-world problems. They are looking for cloud advocates who take ownership of their areas of focus and who are driven to pursue problems at every level. Collaboration is at the heart of their culture and they need engineers who can communicate at a high level and work well with multi-functional teams towards achieving a common goal.

📞**Interview steps**:
- Recruiter screening call (20-30mins)
- Technical interview with the team (up to 1 hour).

✨**We go beyond usual perks… By working with us, you will get**:
- Best-in-class IT equipment.
- Monthly education allowance for courses, training, books, events.
- Cutting-edge office in the centre of Ukraine’s first innovation park — Unit.city.
- Access to all events in the Unit.City and our partner’s network.
- Lunches coverage (even when working from home); unlimited coffee and snacks in the office.
- Mentorship club from GT executives.Internal team-building events every month.
- Lectures from experts.
- Vacation (18 working days a year), and sick leaves (up to 18 working days a year).
- Health insurance.
- Monthly commute allowance or free parking space.
- Unit.Gym membership, after-work activities.

✨**Working model**:
GT builds remote engineering teams for outstanding product companies. Our future mate will work directly with Palo Alto Networks.
We, at GT, call this ‘Extended Team model’, and it means that each team member is integrated as deeply as possible into the client's team. You will work with the same tools and technologies as they do and communicate directly with a client without any intermediary in between.
Our clients usually (before the pandemic) come for a week each month and spend a lot of time with the team in Kyiv. We also encourage trips to a client and joint teambuilding and after-work activities.

✨**At GT we**:
- Take care of the office, payroll, taxes, and other important things.
- Provide you with mentorship and support.
- Set up a growth plan and educational budget for your development.