Position: Lead Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Company: Alcor
Category: DevOps
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper
Published: 2022-04-01T00:00:00+03:00

**What’s it like working as a Lead Cloud Infrastructure Engineer at Questrade?**
The Lead Cloud Infrastructure Engineer is part of the team that implements core infrastructure components, CI/CD pipelines, and tooling that powers Questrade Cloud Platform to deliver self-servicing capabilities to our Engineer teams to onboard and operationalize cloud-native applications. These components include container orchestration platforms (Google Kubernetes Engine), Service Mesh (Istio), container provisioning engines, configuration and secrets management, stand up / provisioning Terraform modules, and others.

In this role, you will collaborate with the project and the architecture teams to influence the design and delivery of our footprint, shape Questrade’s cloud roadmap to deliver against the existing and future needs of the business, and lead the team to deliver cloud platform components and services for the broad enterprise.


**Need more details? Keep reading...**
• Champion “Production Quality” and create cutting-edge cloud infrastructure through Infrastructure-as-Code and automation.
• Oversee day-to-day teams' operation and performance, setting clear goals and KPIs.
• Maintain and expand cloud infrastructure self-service tooling and Cloud-Native Application CI/CD Pipeline that powers our internal platform used by hundreds of developers.
• Design, propose, and facilitate organizational and process improvements as needed for supporting automation and DevSecOps.
• Provide expertise, direction, coaching, and training to other team members on technologies and processes; drive education and knowledge transfer of design patterns, technical practices, and relevant technologies and tools.
• Lead and participate in technical discussions to aid system design, analysis, and troubleshooting of cloud-native applications.
• Recommend strategies to drive down cost and improve efficiencies with supported vendor software and written code to ensure optimal use of available resources.
• Help engineering teams to develop, test, debug and release scalable, resilient, and highly available cloud-native applications quickly.
• Delegate tasks and set project deadlines


**So are YOU our next Lead Cloud Infrastructure Engineer? You are if…**
• Experience managing a team of engineers and leading cloud projects.
• Deep understanding of Cloud computing concepts and solutions including public, private, and hybrid cloud.
• A good understanding of Cloud Security, specifically IAM Roles & Policies, Security Groups, and Encryption keys
• Demonstrated experience supporting at least one of the predominant public clouds (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Advanced knowledge and understanding, and hands-on experiences with container technologies, like Docker runtime and Kubernetes orchestration.
• Advanced knowledge and understanding of CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
• Ability to write clean code in at least one language (i.e Python, Golang, Bash, etc.)
• Experience working with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, and Cloud Deployment Manager.
• Exposure or familiarity with Linux Operating system administration and a good understanding of Linux fundamentals like signals, scheduling, filesystems
• Strong TCP/IP networking knowledge in either cloud or on-prem deployments: DNS, network, routing, L3/L7 protocols, etc.
• Advanced experience in building systems in a microservice environment. Understanding the building blocks of resilient and scalable software.


**Brownie points if…**
• Experience with Google Kubernetes Engine.

**Questrade offers**
- the probation period is three months;
- paid vacation – up to 18 business days per year;
- a paid day off – up to 3 business days per year for personal things;
- flexible hybrid work model work from home or office format;
- company and team-specific celebration events;
- IT kit;
- medical and dental insurance coverage after a successful probation period;
- learning & development (English lessons).

Does it sound interesting to you?
Let's discuss more details! :)