Senior Cloud Systems Infrastructure Engineer

Axway

Sofia, Bucharest, or Paris

The Axway Cloud Onboarding organization is currently seeking a Senior Cloud Systems Engineer who has a high level of technical expertise in industry-leading Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) providers like AWS and Azure Cloud Services, with a focus on Azure Cloud. They will have a proven track record of helping organizations to deploy, implement, and operate mission-critical production workloads.

Responsibilities

Hands-on design and implementation of cloud and hybrid (Axway Managed Cloud and Sass) based infrastructure solutions include both virtualized compute and storage.
Design and implement high availability and disaster recovery solutions that span the managed cloud and hybrid environments in Azure.
Design and implement a VNet to deploy mission-critical production applications using Azure infrastructure services.
Provide Technical Leadership for customer onboarding and work with Customers to establish G2C, C2C standard network connectivity options.
Install, configure, implement, and support Windows/Linux servers, including management of user/group accounts & policies, integration to Active Directory, Azure Active Directory, and Active Directory Federation Services
Manage monitoring systems such as Prometheus, Icign, or equivalent
Manage other hosting-related technologies such as proxy/web filtering, load balancers, WAF, backup and replication solutions, and so forth as DRBD, GlusterFS, EFS, etc.
Provide L3 support for the cloud team on Azure, AWS, Storage, Networking, and Linux platforms.
Monitoring platforms Prometheus, Filebeat, Loki-Stack, Icinga, etc.
Define SOPs and participate in Audits and DR activities.
Ensure all solutions comply to corporate security policies and standards.
Gather design requirements from stakeholders (e.g., Business and application groups) and translate them into functional and technical requirements.
Automate repeatable operations and activities to optimize delivery time.
Able to perform Capacity Planning on the customer environment on Managed Cloud and provide recommendations for improving availability and cost optimization.
Manage the lifecycle of all requests and incidents that arise, driving for the root cause of problems to prevent incidents from recurring.
Participate in after-hours support (on call) and scheduled implementation activities as required.

Qualifications

Required

5+ years of Experience working with Azure Infrastructure services (Architecture/administration/operations)
Strong working knowledge of Azure services: VM, Azure Blob, AKS; Azure DNS; RBAC Load balancers; VPN; VNet, Private Link; Transit Gateway; WAF; Database Services; and SSO.
Strong knowledge and experience with Kubernetes and Terraform platforms
Experience with containerization in Azure
Proficiency in Linux/Unix OS, Red Hat or SUSE is required
Understanding of Terraform, Python, Ruby, Bash, and PowerShell scripts
Requires minimal supervision and collaborates well with R&D, Operations, and other Support teams.

Preferred

Good working knowledge of Networking concepts and tools: Routing, Switching, Firewall Security, Proxy, Reverse Proxy, HAProxy, Nginx
AWS Cloud provider technologies
Experience in using the tools: GiT, Jenkins, Puppet, Ansible
Experience with System hardening guidelines, e.g., CIS, NIST
Experience with Infrastructure Monitoring tools is a plus
Experience in working with Service Management and collaboration tools like Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Jira is preferred
Ability to work efficiently under pressure on non-routine and highly complex tasks.
Team player with strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.
Ability to work in multicultural global teams (NA, EMEA, APAC)
Must have a customer-first, can-do mindset
Knowledge of AWS is a plus
Education: Bachelor's or Master’s Degree in CS/CE or equivalent