Senior Cloud Engineer – L3

Key Responsibilities:

1. Cloud Infrastructure Management: Oversee the deployment, scaling, and management of cloud infrastructure across platforms like AWS, GCP, and Azure. Ensure optimal configuration, security, and cost-effectiveness.
2. Application Deployment and Maintenance: Responsible for deploying and maintaining web applications, particularly those built on Django and the MERN stack (MongoDB, Express.js, React, Node.js). This includes setting up CI/CD pipelines, monitoring performance, and troubleshooting.
3. Automation and Optimization: Develop scripts and automation tools to streamline operations. Continuously seek ways to improve system efficiency and reduce downtime.
4. Security Compliance: Ensure that all cloud deployments comply with relevant security standards and practices. Regularly conduct security audits and coordinate with security teams to address vulnerabilities.
5. Collaboration and Support: Work closely with development teams to understand their needs and provide technical support. Act as a liaison between developers, IT staff, and management to ensure smooth operation and implementation of cloud solutions.
6. Disaster Recovery and Backup: Implement and manage disaster recovery plans and backup strategies to ensure data integrity and availability.
7. Performance Monitoring: Regularly monitor and report on the performance of cloud services and applications. Use data to make informed decisions about upgrades, scaling, and other changes.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Proven experience in managing cloud infrastructure on AWS, GCP, and Azure.
• Strong background in deploying and maintaining Django-based and MERN stack web applications.
• Expertise in automation tools and scripting languages.
• Solid understanding of network architecture and security protocols.
• Experience with continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) methodologies.
• Excellent problem-solving abilities and a proactive approach to system optimization.
• Good communication skills for effective collaboration with various teams.

Desired Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Relevant certifications in AWS, GCP, or Azure are highly desirable.
• Several years of experience in a DevOps or similar role, with a focus on cloud computing and web application deployment.

Who is Softway?

Softway is a business-to-employee solutions company. We work with businesses to impact the everyday behaviors, mindsets, and attitudes  and help drive valuable changes within.Faster innovation and more inclusion to lead cultural and  digital transformations and make human-focused technology to propel businesses. Our solutions include culture & inclusion services and products, technology experiences, and communications. Ultimately, we believe love is a business strategy.

Who are we looking for ?

Softway is on the lookout for a AWS Cloud Engineer who is passionate about building products that our customers love. You will join a dynamic and fast-paced environment and work with cross-functional teams to design, build and roll-out products that deliver the company’s vision and strategy.

What you should be (More imp than what you should know): 

You think in bigger picture terms and impart that on whole systems rather than a single isolated use case.

You have a passion for imparting best practices to other developers and the organization as a whole.

You can work alongside developers and clients to architect solutions and/or troubleshoot a current solution

You should be able to share your learnings with your team and contribute to a training system that empowers other members of the organization

You would rather invest the time to automate a problem than do the same work again.

You have a passion for learning while making an impact.

A sense of humor and the ability to banter is a MUST

What you should know:

Production level experience with AWS cloud platform and its core services.

Good understanding of the network layer (TCP/UDP, Ports, Firewall, NAT, Subnets, VPC, VPN)

Hands on providing solutions for Redshift and Aurora and other databases.

Experience in release management using CodePipeline and Bitbucket

Big Data solutions on AWS using Firehose, Kinesis, Redshift etc.

Serverless Microservice solution using Lambda, AppSync, ECS etc

Experience on working with Microservices based architectures.

Experience and understanding of hosting and maintaining applications on Docker containers.

Hands on Experience on hosting, maintaining and monitoring highly available, fault tolerant and disaster recovery applications. (Load Balancing, Autoscaling and various deployment strategies)

Strong experience working on Linux based infrastructure.

Incidence management, performing root cause analysis and excellent troubleshooting skills.

Infrastructure automation using AWS CloudFormation Terraform and other tools in the HashiCorp Suite.

Exposure to different phases of software development life cycle.

Experience of working with Service Oriented Architecture.

Production level experience of configuring and maintaining databases ( MongoDB, Postgres, MySQL, etc)

Good to have : 

AWS certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified Developer, or AWS Certified SysOps Administrator are highly desirable.

Why Softway?

Softway’s cross-functional team structure, varied domains and flat hierarchy offer much exposure and learning from a bird's eye-view. You’d love the interaction with our talented folks. Softway gives you ample learning opportunities, pushing you while having your back. We work hard and party harder !! We encourage you to voice your opinions and yes, we actually listen. We take pride in having an ego-less workforce, it allows us to focus on what we’re good at - bringing solutions to life. In addition to a competitive salary and great work culture, we offer GREAT FLEXIBILITY which includes having 2 Fridays off in a month as part of moving to an action-packed, efficient 4 day week.

About the Role:

Our Ascend Platform team is responsible for the cloud infrastructure and observability for entire

Consumer Information Services (North America) division. We are seeking a Software Engineer

for our team to help us continuously improve how we build, monitor, secure and run our rapidly growing

cloud platform. Much of our software development focuses on building infrastructure and eliminating

work through automation. On this team, you will have opportunity to use your expertise in coding,

system design thinking and analytical skills to provide reliable cloud infrastructure and observability tools

for the rest of the product development teams.

What You’ll Do Here

• Build our platforms, systems and infrastructure using your solid expertise in coding.

• Work closely with product development teams, provide hands-on engagement to develop,

direct and implement reliable, secured and cost-effective cloud solutions.

• Participate with a cross department-functional team to establish a cloud operational governance

framework.

• It often involves routine grunt work on service requests to assist other teams with

platform services.

What You'll Need To Succeed

Must Have Skills:

• Deep understanding of Linux, networking, cloud design patterns, API's, and security.

• Strong working experience with managing containers (Docker/LXC) in a production

environment using the container orchestration services like AWS EKS.

• At least 3+ years of experience working with AWS Infrastructure services with emphasis on

IAM, Network, EC2, Lambda, S3, CloudWatch, CloudTrail and in general overall Security.

• Strong knowledge and implementation history of Terraform, Packer, Ansible, Chef, Jenkins or

any other similar tooling.

• Experience on at least one scripting language - Shell, Python etc.

Nice to have skills:

• Experience with other public cloud platforms like Azure and GCP is a bonus.

• Knowledge and working experience in implementing one or more Observability platforms

like Prometheus, InfluxDB, Dynatrace, Grafana, Splunk etc. to measure telemetry data like

logs, metrics and traces.

• Solid professional coding experience in at least one programming language, preferably Java.

• Experience with BigData platforms, like AWS EMR, Databricks, Cloudera, Hortonworks etc.

• Experience with open source technologies like Hadoop, Hive, Presto, Spark, Airflow etc

Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology or related field desirable.

• 5 years of Database administrator experience in Microsoft technologies

• Experience with Azure SQL in a multi-region configuration

• Azure certifications (Good to have)

• 2+ Years’ Experience in performing data migrations upgrades/modernizations, performance tuning on IaaS and PaaS Managed Instance and SQL Azure

• Experience with routine maintenance, recovery, and handling failover of a databases

Knowledge about the RDBMS e.g., Microsoft SQL Server or Azure cloud platform.

• Expertise Microsoft SQL Server on VM, Azure SQL Managed Instance, Azure SQL

• Experience in setting up and working with Azure data warehouse.

• Designing, implementing, testing, and maintaining production-quality cloud storage solutions within Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft Azure
• Provision and manage storage within Virtual (VMWare, Hyper-V, etc), Windows, and Linux environments
• Ensure the availability, reliability, and security of storage platforms and related management systems
• Monitor and report on SAN operational health and performance
• Familiarity with Fibre Channel, iSCSI, CIFS, and NFS protocols and management
• Plan and execute SAN zoning configuration changes on Brocade and Cisco MDS technologies
• Plan and execute storage hardware, software, and firmware updates/upgrades
• Troubleshooting any storage-related problems or outages
• Install and configure new storage devices
• Perform capacity analysis/capacity planning, and recommend storage environment improvements
• Create documentation around storage management tasks and procedures
• Cross-train other staff on storage processes and best practices
• Perform capacity analysis on vSphere environments, and recommend changes and enhancements to meet demand
• Perform day-to-day management tasks in vCenter, including vMotion, storage migrations, and P2V
• Knowledge of, and experience implementing VMWare best practices
• Experience supporting a variety of platforms, including at least some of the following: DellEMC Unity, VMAX/PowerMax (this is an important one), Isilon, DataDomain, NetApp
• Supporting and operating platforms with the core principle of “automate everything” at the center of your work

Responsibilities:

• Design, configure, administer, monitor and troubleshoot complex enterprise network environment for communications and solution improvements within the Company's high-traffic, business-critical Internet production environment. 
• Develop and implement plans for infrastructure upgrades, modeling, analysis, and planning.
• Analyze, design, test, and evaluate network systems including local area networks (LAN), wide area networks (SD-WAN), Cloud, Data Centers, and other data communications systems. 
• Design, manage, and maintain office wired and wireless networks.
• Work with complex network and storage environments including SAN, clustering, load balancing, multi-site VPNs, network IDS, and firewalls.
• Monitor network performance and provide security measures, troubleshooting and maintenance, as needed. 
• Acquire, maintain and report on data related to network performance management, capacity planning and utilization trend analysis.
• Provide after-hours support for systems and applications.
• Collaborate with other functional IT areas to ensure that IT best practices, policies, and procedures are adhered to. Provide technical support for staff issues.
• 7+ years of experience in setup, configuration and maintenance of networking infrastructure including Cisco switches, routers, firewalls, VPN technologies, SD-WAN, and other WAN administration.

Experience

• 7+ years of experience with configuring and supporting IP networks.
• 5+ years of experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and multi-region Amazon Web Services (AWS) networking configurations
• 3+ years of experience in managing Meraki wireless networks and equipment in office environments.
• Strong fundamental knowledge of networks, ports, protocols, and infrastructure setup
• Enterprise-Level: Larger than 1,000 PCs and 500 Servers (multi-platform) are a definite plus
• Solid understanding of Microsoft Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, etc. in a large multi-site environment.
• In-depth knowledge of IT standards, concepts, best practices, and procedures - relies on knowledge, experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills for purposes of communicating with team members as well as other departments.
• Ability to take initiative & manage multiple detailed tasks in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment.
• Organizational, and project management abilities, strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Education Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree: CIS Computer Information Systems; Information Technology, Computer Science or similar.
• CCNP Certification or similar
• Cisco switches, routers, firewalls, VPN technologies, SD-WAN, WAN administration
• Cisco SAN experience
• OS Platforms: Windows / Linux
• Hardware Platforms: Cisco UCS, Cisco Meraki, EMC storage

DevOps Engineer (GCP):

·   Linux Fundamentals/Coding and Scripting Skills.

·   Need to have good cloud skills to be able to set up and manage cloud-based infrastructure. This includes knowing how to use Google Cloud Platform.

·  Need to be able to implement Network & Cloud Security including encryption, firewalls, and intrusion detection systems. 

·  Knowledge of gitops 

·  Good understanding of Docker engine, storage and image management and registry 

·  Good understanding of Google Services including IAM, GKE, KMS, BigQuery, DataProc, Composure (Airflow), CloudRun, Anthos Service Mesh etc.

.  Design, develop and deploy module cloud-based systems.

.  Incorporating best practices and in adherence with Cloud Policies and Security guidelines.

Responsibilities:

• Designing cloud infrastructure for scalability, performance, availability, and security.
• Involving in migrating existing applications and data to cloud platforms, designing the migration plan, assessing risks, and ensuring a smooth transition to the cloud.
• Designing and implementing security measures for cloud infrastructure.
• Optimizing cloud infrastructure costs by designing and identifying areas where costs can be reduced.

Eligibility:

• Experience in cloud computing concepts, architectures, and deployment models.
• Deep insights into AWS
• Programming languages experience, such as Java, Python, Ruby, and others.
• Proficient in designing and deploying cloud infrastructure, including computing, storage, networking, and security services.
• Involvement in cloud security principles and practices, including data protection, access control, network security, and compliance.

Job Brief

QwikSkills is seeking an extremely knowledgeable Azure Cloud Engineer with a passion for problem-solving. You will make recommendations and help to create and maintain cloud services for developers that use this infrastructure for their software. You will need great collaboration and communication skills as you will spend a large part of your role interacting with developers and non-technical stakeholders.

Who We Are

QwikSkills is a one-stop platform to learn & practice hands-on cloud skills, cloud certification preparation and practice needs. We offer affordable world-class online certification practice tests and hands-on cloud labs for individuals as well as teams for AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, VMware etc.

As an Azure Cloud Engineer, your responsibilities include:-

• Developing and deploying Cloud solutions in collaboration with the cloud team.
• Managing and maintaining Cloud Labs portfolio.
• Creating, debugging, testing, and documenting Cloud Labs. 
• Identifying, analysing, and resolving Cloud infrastructure vulnerabilities and application deployment issues.
• Regularly reviewing existing systems and making recommendations for improvements.
• Generating curriculum for technical training.
• Working with the internal team to design, own, and deliver advanced training courses.
• Handling a group of 50-100 mentees/students and constantly guiding them through the course curriculum.

What We Are Looking for, in a Candidate

• Energy and enthusiasm to work in a fast-paced start-up culture
• Valuable degree in Computer Science or other technical discipline or equivalent
• Good understanding of the various Azure services and how they work together
• Superior programming knowledge, Python needed
• Good creativity and ideas for creating new Lab content that is engaging, relevant, and useful for the learners
• Good understanding of finding quality content for Labs Doc Creation
• Demonstrable problem-solving skills and logical thinking techniques, and have excellent attention to detail
• Excellent teamwork/collaboration skills
• Effective time management skills
• Proven work experience in a similar role

Fringe Benefits of Working with Us

• Assured winsome compensation
• An inclusive team of like-minded professionals
• An energetic and positive working space
• Collateral creative freedom
• Personal and professional development
• A major scope for career progression

About Us :

Markowate is a digital product development company building digital products on AI, Blockchain, Mobile, and Web3 digital. We work with tech startups as their technical partner and help them with their digital transformation.

Role Overview: As a Solution Architect, you will collaborate with stakeholders, including business executives, project managers, and software development teams, to understand the organization's objectives and requirements. You will then design scalable and efficient software solutions that align with these requirements. Your role involves assessing technologies, creating architecture designs, overseeing the development process, and ensuring the successful implementation of the solutions.

"Note: Should have 9+ years of relevant experience. Must have worked with Node.js technology."

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand and analyze business and technical requirements, and translate them into scalable and feasible solution designs.
• Develop end-to-end solution architectures, considering factors such as system integration, scalability, performance, security, and reliability.
• Research and evaluate new technologies, frameworks, and platforms to determine their suitability for the organization's needs.
• Provide technical guidance and support to development teams throughout the software development life cycle (SDLC) to ensure adherence to the architectural vision and best practices.
• Effectively communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders, such as executives and project managers, and provide recommendations on technology-related decisions.
• Identify and mitigate technical risks by proactively identifying potential issues and developing contingency plans.
• Collaborate with quality assurance teams to define and implement testing strategies that validate the solution's functionality, performance, and security.
• Create and maintain architectural documentation, including diagrams, technical specifications, and design guidelines, to facilitate efficient development and future enhancements.
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies to drive innovation and continuous improvement within the organization.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Should have 9+ years of experience and relevant experience as a solution architect.
• Must have experience in Node.Js and should have deep understanding in AI/ML and data pipelines.
• Proven experience as a Solution Architect or a similar role, with a strong background in software development.
• In-depth knowledge of software architecture patterns, design principles, and development methodologies.
• Proficiency in various programming languages and frameworks.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to think strategically and propose innovative solutions.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience in cloud computing platforms, such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, and understanding of their services and deployment models.
• ​Familiarity with DevOps practices, continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, and containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.