Cloud Engineer

Job Title

Position Purpose: As part of our transformation programs, we need to board our applications on IBM cloud by 2026. Within the implementation team, the candidate will work with multiple teams, including Engineering, Infrastructure, and development teams

Responsibilities

Direct Responsibilities

As a member of the Cloud team, the candidate will:

• Build and maintain Ansible playbooks and terraform scripts to automate provisioning, configuration and deployments
• Work on containerization of legacy applications
• Assist & train other ops profiles on Ansible, Terraform and K8s

Contributing Responsibilities

Provisioning, Configuration, Deployment, DR

Technical & Behavioral Competencies

Mandatory skills and behavior competencies

• Strong critical thinker with problem solving aptitude.
• Good written and oral communication skills
• Strong knowledge of Linux platform and CLI
• Proficiency in at least one scripting language (Python and/or Bash preferred)
• Good understanding of Continuous integration (Jenkins, Travis, Concourse, etc.)
• Kubernetes, Ansible & Terraform

Specific Qualifications

Qualification & Experience:

• Bachelor/Master's Degree in computer science or computer engineering
• 5+ years of experience in IT Operations or Software Engineering
• At least 2+ years of hands-on experience with a Cloud provider (IBM/AWS/Azure/Google)
• At least 2+ years of hands-on experience Ansible/Docker
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Automation with Ansible (RH294)
• Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
• Developing Adv. Automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (DO374)
• Optional: HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (003)
• Optional: HashiCorp Certified: Vault Associate (002)

Skills Referential (Required knowledge, skills and abilities)

Behavioral Skills:

• Ability to collaborate / teamwork
• Communication skills – oral & written
• Attention to detail / rigor
• Ability to deliver / results driven

Transversal Skills:

• Ability to understand, explain and support change
• Ability to develop and adapt a process
• Ability to manage a project
• Analytical ability
• Ability to manage / facilitate a meeting, seminar, committee, training..

Education Level:

Bachelor/Master's Degree in computer science or computer engineering

Location:

Chennai