Senior Cloud Engineer

You will be at the forefront of developing and maintaining the infrastructure that powers Snapp's cutting-edge cloud technologies. You will drive the automation and optimization of deployment, scaling, and maintenance processes, ensuring that Snapp’s cloud environment remains scalable, resilient, and up-to-date.

Responsibilities:

• Cloud Infrastructure Automation: Develop and manage infrastructure automation using tools like Ansible, Terraform, Helm charts, and Golang to scale and maintain the cloud environment efficiently.
• Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC): Apply best practices in Infrastructure-as-Code, automating cloud operations to improve deployment speed and reduce errors.
• Innovating with Open-Source Technologies: Investigate and integrate new open-source tools and technologies to enhance cloud capabilities and introduce new features.
• Issue Resolution & Maintenance: Troubleshoot and resolve issues in the cloud, ensuring the continued smooth operation of critical components and keeping them up-to-date.
• Working with Cutting-Edge Technologies: Work with technologies such as OpenShift Kubernetes Distribution (OKD), OpenStack, Ceph, and Kubernetes.
• Collaboration & Support: Collaborate with other teams, contribute to documentation, and assist developers by providing best practices for deploying and maintaining services on the cloud platform.
• Runbook Contributions: Contribute to runbooks and participate in the on-call rotation to ensure system reliability.
• Monitoring & Alerting: Work with advanced monitoring and alerting systems to ensure the health and performance of cloud services.

Requirements:

• Cloud Technologies Expertise: Strong experience with Linux, networking, and OpenStack/Ceph, including deploying, configuring, and managing clusters.
• Experience with Cloud Platforms: Knowledge of Kubernetes, OKD, and familiarity with GitOps methodologies.
• Programming Skills: Familiarity with programming (preferably Golang), including writing k8s controllers/operators and Prometheus exporters.
• Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools like Terraform and Ansible are a plus.
• Problem Solving: A sharp analytical mindset with the ability to troubleshoot, identify root causes, and resolve complex issues within the cloud infrastructure.
• Team Collaboration: Ability to work effectively within a team, support users, and help build new cloud features.
• Adaptability & Learning: Quick to learn new technologies and tools, staying ahead of the curve to drive improvements in cloud services.