Cloud Engineer

Company Description: Apexon is a digital-first technology services firm backed by Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Everstone Capital. We specialize in accelerating business transformation and delivering human-centric digital experiences. For over 17 years, Apexon has been meeting customers wherever they are in the digital lifecycle and helping them outperform their competition through speed and innovation.

ROLE
As part of the Client global cloud enablement platform team you will be engineering solutions for developers to enable monitoring, troubleshooting, improving performance, managing capacity & automating problem remediation for all of Client infrastructure & applications. These solutions ensure visibility is part of the infrastructure as code and monitoring data is readily available at every stage of the SDLC.
Your role includes specification, development, as well as the testing and rollout of new features. You are expected to contribute to the vision, understand our product roadmap, integrate business value with experience and contribute to building an engineering culture within the team. We expect the successful candidate to deliver high quality software and to be passionate about software engineering and reliability engineering. You must have a proficient understanding of software development concepts & a proven experience with cloud computing.

 

RESPONSIBILITIES AND QUALIFICATIONS
• Manage multiple tasks and use sound judgment when prioritizing
• Collaborate with global cross functional teams in building customer-centric products
• Analyze existing software implementations to identify areas of improvement and provide
deadline estimates for implementing new features
• Update and maintain documentation for team processes, best practices and software runbooks
• Establish trusted partnerships with peers, product heads, and executive level stakeholders
• Must be passionate about technology and engineering
• Exceptional analytical skills and ability to apply knowledge and experience in decisionmaking to arrive at creative and commercial solutions
• Ability to leverage technology to deliver business value
• Must be independent and comfortable in a fast paced, ambiguous and often multidirectional work environment

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE WE ARE LOOKING FOR
• Minimum 4 years of relevant professional experience using a modern programming language (preferably Python or Java)
• Experience with infrastructure as code frameworks (preferably Terraform & Ansible)
• Experience with automation & provisioning solutions
• B.S. or higher in Computer Science (or equivalent work experience)
• Strong analytical skills
• Experience leveraging test-driven development methodologies
• Comfort with Agile operating models (practical experience of Scrum/Kanban)
• Team oriented; strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Energetic, self-directed, and self-motivated

Preferred Qualifications
• Experience with AWS
• Experience with Gitlab / Github / Bitbucket
• Experience with Terraform
• Experience with atleast one programming language. (preferably Python or Java)
• Experience with SQL databases (PostgreSQL/Oracle)
• Experience in Financial Services or Fintech

Disclaimer: If you feel that this is a good match for your skillsets, please submit a current word version of your resume along with a cover letter describing your skills, experience and salary expectations. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). You can read our job applicant privacy policy here .