Job description
Senior Cloud Engineer
Europe-based | Hybrid | Work from Home
Why Pythian?
At Pythian, we are experts in strategic database and analytics services, driving digital transformation and operational excellence. Pythian, a multinational company, was founded in 1997 and started by ensuring the reliability and performance of mission-critical databases. We quickly earned a reputation for solving tough data challenges. We were there when the industry moved from on-premises to cloud environments, and as enterprises sought more from their data, we expanded our competencies to include advanced analytics.
Today, we empower organizations to embrace transformation and leverage advanced technologies, including AI, to stay competitive. We deliver innovative solutions that meet each client’s data goals and have built strong partnerships with Google Cloud, AWS, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, and Snowflake. The powerful combination of our extensive expertise in data and cloud and our ability to keep on top of the latest bleeding edge technologies make us the perfect partner to help mid and large-sized businesses transform to stay ahead in today’s rapidly changing digital economy.
Why you?
As a Senior Cloud Engineer you will build high-quality solutions to help our customers achieve their business objectives. You will work independently or as part of a team to understand the project’s trajectory, provide insights on implementation details, and deliver consistent, high-quality solutions leveraging automation. At the end of the day, our Cloud consulting team creates interesting solutions using cutting edge technology and expertise to deliver value with speed and precision to our clients.
If this is you, and you wonder what it would be like to work at Pythian, reach out to us and find out!
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What you will be doing:
- Build and maintain client relationships, providing technical leadership and guidance for current projects.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business requirements, assist in project planning, and document project plans for both small and medium-sized projects.
- Participate in and support sprint planning activities with the Project Manager, including story point estimation and ceremonies such as standups, backlog grooming, and retrospectives.
- Design and implement technical solutions for customer projects, ensuring scalability and efficiency.
- Create or contribute to building technical design documents and other necessary documentation for projects.
- Write testable, high-performance, reliable, and maintainable code for CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code frameworks (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation).
- Design and implement security and network software components for multi-cloud solutions and architectures.
- Research, evaluate, and recommend third-party software and technology packages based on project requirements. Provide performance optimization recommendations and document best practices.
- Create cloud migration strategies and plans, following best practices and ensuring smooth transitions to cloud architectures.
- Develop automated provisioning solutions for servers, environments, containers, and data centers.
What we need from you:
- Experience with engineering solutions on major cloud provider platforms, preferably Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and one or both of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure.
- Hands-on experience with operating system platform configuration, tuning, and administration for Linux or Windows, with a preference for both.
- Strong understanding of application performance and design best practices to ensure applications and services are highly available, performant, scalable, and secure.
- High proficiency with open-source tools, including Hashicorp solutions such as Terraform, Packer, and Vault, along with other deployment frameworks like Pulumi.
- Proficiency in at least one popular programming language (e.g., Go, Java, Python, Ruby, Rust).
- Solid understanding of testing techniques and frameworks, including test and behavior-driven development, with experience in writing test suites, mocks, and fixtures.
- Capability to write scripts for maintenance, automation, and data processing using scripting languages such as Bash, Groovy, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, PowerShell, or R.
- Experience with common configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Chef, Puppet).
- Strong knowledge of automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications, ideally with hands-on experience using Kubernetes and tools like Helm.
- Exposure to Anthos is a plus.
- Skilled in common CI/CD tools, patterns, and techniques, with familiarity in pipeline enablement products such as ArgoCD, Azure DevOps, Cloud Build, GitLab, or Jenkins.
- Understanding of development methods, workflows, and patterns, particularly Agile and DevOps practices.
- Experience with stream-processing platforms and services, such as Kafka and Cloud Pub/Sub.
- Solid understanding of data security principles, including encryption, access control, and identity management, and their technical application to enforce data custodianship and compliance.
- Experience with on-premise architectures and visualization applications such as vCenter
- Experience in MLOPs is a plus.
What do you get in return?
- Love your career: Competitive total rewards and salary package. Blog during work hours; take a day off and volunteer for your favorite charity.
- Love your work/life balance: Flexibly work remotely from your home, there’s no daily travel requirement to an office! All you need is a stable internet connection.
- Love your coworkers: Collaborate with some of the best and brightest in the industry!
- Love your development: Hone your skills or learn new ones with our substantial training allowance; participate in professional development days, attend training, become certified, whatever you like!
- Love your workspace: We give you all the equipment you need to work from home including a laptop with your choice of OS, and an annual budget to personalize your work environment!
- Love yourself: Pythian cares about the health and well-being of our team. You will have an annual wellness budget to make yourself a priority (use it on gym memberships, massages, fitness and more). Additionally, you will receive a generous amount of paid vacation and sick days, as well as a day off to volunteer for your favorite charity.
Disclaimer
The successful applicant will need to fulfill the requirements necessary to obtain a background check.
Accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in any aspect of the selection process.
