Position: Lead Cloud Engineer
Company: N-iX
Category: DevOps
Experience required: 5y
English level: intermediate
Published: 2022-07-01T00:00:00+03:00

**Responsibilities:**
- Help the development teams with questions or problems regarding AWS architecture, IaC, and/or CI/CD. This includes tasks such as problems with scaling services, upgrading Terraform versions, implementing new Terraform modules, helping them fix CI/CD problems, and Datadog monitoring. A team might ask "why is this service failing in AWS?" and need your help to find and fix the root cause
- This role also includes evaluating existing solutions and driving improvements. Here we have things such as helping teams become more cost-effective and secure by implementing VPC peering and/or VPC endpoints instead of using the public internet
- It's also important that you can provide guidance. To be able to have a conversation with the teams about a solution, to analyze the strengths and weaknesses, and help them move forward in the right direction. To help them be better, and not need you in the future

**Requirements:**
- 5+ years of experience as DevOps Engineer/Cloud Engineer
- Experience driving discussions with senior personnel regarding trade-offs, best practices, and risk mitigation
- AWS design, development, and deployment of business software at scale or current hands-on technology infrastructure, network, compute, storage, and virtualization experience
- Experience with IT compliance and risk management requirements (e.g., security, privacy, SOX, HIPAA etc.
- Knowledge of the primary AWS (CloudTrail, AWS Config, Cloudwatch, AWS ECS, IAM, Lambda, DynamoDB, ELB, API Gateway, Cognito, SQS, SNS, Eventbridge, Image Builder, VPC;)
- Hands-on experience with cost-reduction
- Strong track record of implementing AWS services in a variety of distributed computing environments
- Proven experience with highly available and fault-tolerant enterprise and web-scale software deployments
- Solid understanding of computer networks and common network protocols
- Infrastructure automation through DevOps scripting (Shell, Python, Ruby, PowerShell, etc)
- Configuration management using CloudFormation, Ansible or Terraform
- Lots of Terraform, modules, state management, etc (We test our terraform modules using terratest written in Go)
- Strong practical Linux-based systems administration skills in a Cloud or Virtualized environment
- Experience managing data center operations, including data assurance, monitoring, alerting and notifications
- Intermediate strong+ level of English

**Would be a plus:**
- Datadog
- Large-scale migration experience Data Center to Data Center and/or Data Center to Cloud
- Windows-based systems administration skills in a Cloud or Virtualized environment
- University degree in IT Engineering

**We offer:**
- Flexible working format - remote, office-based or flexible
- A competitive salary and good compensation package
- Flexible and personalized career growth
- Professional development tools (mentorship program, tech talks and trainings, centers of excellence, and more)
- Active tech communities with regular knowledge sharing
- Education reimbursement
- Paid vacation days, sick leaves, and days off
- Healthcare & Sport program
- Medical insurance
- Memorable anniversary presents
- Corporate events and team buildings