Cloud Engineer

Job Title: Cloud Engineer

Location: Portland, Oregon

Type: Perm

Responsibilities

System & network administration

- Setup and operation of cloud environments (Kubernetes, AWS, GCP). 

- Backup of environments as well as mirroring to another data center. 

- VPN, tunnels, firewall/external access. 

- Databases - PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL 

- Troubleshooting with third party service providers (providers, software vendors) 

- DNS entries 

- Monitoring 

Software administration

- Applying for system and application software. 

- Installation & updates of system and application software. 

- Administration of licenses 

- Monitoring the proper use of installed software. 

- Administration of Jenkins, Git, and more. 

Information Security

- Internal control system 

- Certification topics (PS951, ISO27001) 

- Information security (ORGA) 

Security

- security of all computers (servers and PCs) and all network components. 

internal topics

- management of virtual machines, setup of new environments (DEV & PRODUCT) 

- Implementation of new projects & introduction of applications 

- Review of performance and feedback from the project areas for e.g. newly installed software, upgrade of VM resources etc. 

Requirements

Technical

- Education or studies in the field of computer science (preferably in the field of system integration) 

- Very good knowledge in the area of cloud platforms, especially: 

Amazon Web Services

Google Cloud Platform

Very good knowledge in the area of containerized environments with Docker, Kubernetes and common CI/CD platforms 

- Good knowledge in the area of Linux/Unix system administration 

- Good knowledge in Infrastructure as code (Terraform, ...) 

- Good knowledge of automation technologies (Ansible, ...) 

- Knowledge of common scripting languages (Bash, Perl, PHP, ...) 

- Knowledge of database administration, maintenance and operations, especially with: 

AWS RDS (PostgreSQL) 

Google Cloud SQL (PostgreSQL) 

Communication skills 

- Helpfulness 

- Ability to work in a team 

- Willingness to work independently 

Non-technical 

- English spoken and written 

- Willingness to work outside of business hours 

- Understanding of processes in the field: 

Capacity planning 

Operational safety 

Certifications (ISO) 

Data protection

To apply for this position please submit an MS Word doc of your resume and put in the subject - Job ID # 1973.