Cloud Engineer

at  Sopra Steria

Sopra Steria Group, a major player in consulting, technology services and software publishing in Europe, assists its clients in the successful transformation of their business and information systems. By combining value and innovation in the solutions proposed, and delivering utmost quality and performance in the services provided, Sopra Steria Group positioned itself as a preferred partner for major companies and organizations; especially those looking for the best use of digital technology for their development and competitiveness.
The Cloud Engineer is an adopter of virtualization, containers, and cloud infrastructure. You should love to automate everything that needs to be done more than once and will oversee migrating products using container technology such as Kubernetes and provisioning platforms such as vRealize Automation. Your scope will also embrace reverse engineering of the legacy architecture and key flows, understand its key weaknesses and readiness such as security, reliability, simplicity, performance, operational agility, and automation. Design out the weaknesses, work hand in hand with the technical architects and operational teams. The final goal is to participate in the transformation of the Data Center into a full Continues Delivery pipeline with fully automated build/deploy/monitoring/resiliency processes in a fully consolidated environment with no unknown remaining legacy issues in terms of security, reliability, performance, and operational agility.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
• Basic understanding of programming concepts.
• One of the programming/scripting languages (Python, Javascript, Bash)
• Experience in Kubernetes architecture and Software engineering.
• Strong experience with container provisioning platform such as Kubernetes
• Experience in AWS, and OVH cloud providers.
• Knowledge of computer networking and virtualization
• Ability to build collaborative working relationships with various internal and external stakeholdersKnowledge of Argo CD
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations.
• Ability to work and communicate in a multi-cultural environment.
• Ability to communicate in writing and verbally in a clear and concise manner.
• Initiative, accuracy, and attention to detail.
• Fluent in English (written and spoken) is essential.
• Any other European language is a plus.
• Promote and follow prescribed project management guidelines for projects
• Maintain documentation for all operational / support processes for the systems supported; automate repetitive processes where appropriate
• Be ready to handle on-call support in 24/7 manner and shift mode 7-20

PREFERRED SKILLS:

• Experience deploying and operating on public and private cloud frameworks
• Experience in using vSphere.
• Familiarity with service design in the context of cloud-based solutions
• Stay current with new technologies and techniques as appropriate
• Knowledge of ITIL functions and processes
• Kubernetes certification is considered an asset

Please refer the Job description for details