Cloud Operations Engineer  

The Cloud Operations Engineer is responsible for the active collaboration with the Software Engineers in planning, deploying, and maintaining the organizations of the company’s software and/or systems to multiple environments. Tasks include system automation, scaling efficiently with continuous delivery methodologies, and ensuring system reliability at all time. The Cloud Operations Engineer should also strive to improve the deployment and recovery processes.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• To create and maintain multiple environments (e.g. development, staging, UAT, and production) in different infrastructure providing platforms (e.g. AWS, Digital Ocean, Local)
• To automate the provisioning configuration, scaling, and monitoring of the company’s systems
• To ensure that project is always ready for productions which includes documenting specific procedures for each project
• To maintain and troubleshoot existing systems and resolve errors found
• To improve the company’s system services including hosting, databases, and networking
• To continually improve current DevOps tools, processes, and procedures
• To identify, analyze, and suggest improvements for performance bottlenecks
• To ensure system availability and security hosted in various environments
• To perform all other related tasks that may be assigned from time to time

• Must be a college graduate with a Bachelor’s degree on Computer Science/Information Technology, Computer Engineering or equivalent
• Must have 2-3 years of working experience as a Cloud Operations Engineer or equivalent
• Must be knowledgeable about AWS
• Must have familiarity with cloud computing
• Must have strong experience in Linux, Java or Javascript
• Must have working experience with version control, preferably Git
• Familiarity with DevOps culture and best practices
• Has experience in CI/CD tools (i.e. Bitbucket Pipelines, CircleCI, Jenkins, GitLab) and agile development processes
• Knowledge of configuration-as-code (i.e. Cloudformation, Terraform, Ansible)
• Solid understanding of containers and experience in Docker
• Strong knowledge and experience with AWS infrastructure (e.g. VPC, Security Groups, EC2, S3, RDS, etc.) and API integration
• Understanding of monitoring tools and statistics (e.g. Zabbix, Elastic Stack, Grafana, etc.)
• Strong experience in deploying, maintaining, migrating, and monitoring multiple data stores like MySQL, Redis, etc.
• Strong understanding of network fundamentals and protocols (e.g. TCP/IP, DNS, WINS, SSL/TLS, etc.)
• Strong experience in deploying scalable web infrastructure with Apache/Nginx/Php-Fpm/Node/PM2, etc.
• Hands-on knowledge with design of high-availability solutions such as load balancing, clustering, disaster recovery and the like
• Has the ability to manage multiple tasks in a dynamic and fast-paced environment
• Analytical thinking and troubleshooting skill to resolve infrastructure and/or application issues
• Experience supporting high traffic volume applications
• Ability to become proficient with new technologies quickly
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills especially when discussing technical jargons
• Willingness to work flexible/odd hours based on needs
• Drive to always be in the loop of new DevOps technologies and methodologies