Cloud Operations specialist

We currently have a vacancy for a Cloud Operations specialist fluent in English, to offer his/her services as an expert who will be based in Ispra, Italy. The work will be carried out either in the companys premises or on site at customer premises. In the context of the first assignment, the successful candidate will be integrated in the Development team of the company that will closely cooperate with a major clients IT team on site.

Your tasks

• Configures, and administers cloud infrastructure and applications;
• Define configuration management and deployment strategies for Cloud resources;
• Ensure availability and stability of cloud production environments;
• Develop, and design software automation and scripts to orchestrate cloud and virtualization technologies with defined scope, schedule and expectations with a focus on Operations;
• Provides subject matter expert technical support to customers using Cloud Platform products, solutions and APIs with a focus on Operations;
• Design and implement DevSecOps capabilities (e.g. observability, continuous monitoring, tractability);
• Work with the development teams in resolving software and other related problems associated with the cloud deployment infrastructure and the code deployed onto platforms such as Database and/or Middleware;
• Security administration and monitoring, in adherence to the security rules.

Requirements

• University degree in IT or relevant discipline, combined with minimum 15 years of relevant working experience in IT;
• More than 3 years of experience inKubernetes and Docker platforms;
• More than 3 years of experience in Automation platform (Ansible, Gitlab pipelines);
• More than 3 years of experience in Devops platform (Gitlab);
• More than 3 years of experience in SCM - Source code management tools (Git);
• More than 3 years of experience in IaC - Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, AWS cloud formation);
• Experience in administering systems in a virtualized Cloud environment;
• Good knowledge of virtualization technologies;
• Good knowledge in scripting languages for cloud infrastructure automation;
• Good Knowledge of Cloud infrastructure setups from vendors such as, but not limited to, Azure and Amazon;
• Knowledge of Middleware systems;
• Knowledge of messaging services and platforms;
• Knowledge of JEE;
• Knowledge of Linux;
• Knowledge of RDBMS;
• Strong understanding of security, risk and compliance frameworks, disaster recovery, high availability architectures, hardware, operating systems and networking connectivity;
• ITIL Foundation Certification is required;
• Excellent command of the English language.

Benefits

If you are seeking a career in an exciting and dynamic company, where you will offer your services as part of a team of a major European Institution, operating in an international, multilingual and multicultural environment where you can expect real chances to make a difference, please send us your detailed CV in English.

We offer a competitive remuneration (either on contract basis or remuneration with full benefits package), based on qualifications and experience. All applications will be treated as confidential.