Senior Cloud Architect Engineer

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Why we're hiring:

As a member of the Global Technical Operations (TechOps), you will be a part of a team that focuses on operational reliability within a cloud-based infrastructure.  You have hands-on cloud experience in architecting, building, deploying, managing databases, compute instances, and storage buckets.  You have a passion for providing solutions through automation. You know that success is through collaboration and communication. 

What you'll be doing:

• Work in cross-functional teams to develop solutions and identify opportunities to bring efficiency and effectiveness.
• Research, evaluate, and incorporate new technologies/concepts into existing frameworks.
• Proactively identify areas to improve efficiency and effectiveness, recommend and implement solutions towards them.
• Develop and innovate operational practices, procedures for workflows, and documentation.
• Implement and contribute to IT security best practices.
• Automate tasks to ensure consistency and speed of deployment.
• Identify, analyze, and troubleshoot issues and work towards resolution.
• Explain technical solutions to both technical and non-technical people.
• Provide technical leadership/guidance to other members.
• Participates in on-call rotation.
• Work with a limited set of requirements.
• Context switch between assignments / projects and performing daily tasks.
• Act as a liaison and partner between TechOps and other groups.
• Pick up new responsibilities as required.

What you'll need:

• Recent hands-on experience (10+ years) as a Cloud Engineer/DevOps/SRE (GCP).
• Proven work experience in automating tasks within a cloud-based environment, using infrastructure coding tools (Terraform, Open Tofu, Terragrunt).
• Experience with architecting GCP Tenants and folder structure
• Experience with architecting Infrastructure CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with configuration management tools (Ansible preferred).
• Experience with container orchestration and management platforms (Kubernetes, Helm).
• Solid understanding of networking concepts.
• Solid understanding of security concepts.
• Experience with monitoring tools (Datadog, Stackdriver).
• Experience with at least one programming and/or scripting language (Go, Python or Bash).
• Skilled in presentation and documentation.
• Troubleshooting and analytical skills.
• Time and project management skills.

Who you are:

You're open: we are inclusive and collaborative; we encourage the free exchange of ideas; we respect and celebrate diverse views. We are open-minded: to new ideas, new partnerships, new ways of working.

You're optimistic: we approach all that we do with confidence: to try the new and to seek the unexpected.

You're extraordinary: We are stronger together: through collaboration we achieve the amazing. We are creative leaders and pioneers of our industry; we provide extraordinary every day.

What we'll give you:

Passionate, inspired people – we champion a culture of people that do extraordinary work

Scale and opportunity – we offer the opportunity to create, influence and deliver projects at a scale that is unparalleled in the industry.

Challenging and stimulating work – unique work and the opportunity to join a group of creative problem solvers. 

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We believe the best work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. That's why we’ve adopted a hybrid approach, with teams in the office around four days a week. If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process.

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