Senior/expert Cloud Platform Engineer

Senior/Expert Cloud Platform Engineer

KONE Technology and Innovation (KTI) is where the magic happens at KONE. It's where we combine the physical world – escalators and elevators – with smart and connected digital systems. We are changing and improving the way billions of people move within buildings every day. We are on a mission to expand and develop new digital solutions that are based on emerging technologies.

KONE R&D brings together top talent from different disciplines into an industry-leading product and technology organization. We thrive in solving complex customer challenges, connecting legacy with the latest technologies, across hardware and software engineering. In fact, roughly half of our R&D roles are in software. Agile ways of working mean that we are better able to meet our customers' rapidly evolving needs for speed and innovation, in a global environment.

R&D unit in KTI is responsible for developing digital services at KONE. It's the development engine for our Digital Services such as Office Flow, KONE 24/7 Connected Services and Partnership Ecosystem.

We are looking for a Senior/Expert Cloud Platform Engineer to join our team in Espoo, Finland to manage our platform offerings that support KONE digital products. We work in a hybrid way, with a mix of office days and remote days.

Become part of a dynamic team managing large scale AWS Organizations of over 400 AWS accounts and smaller GCP organization.

Role Description

• Administrating AWS Organizations containing of over 400 AWS accounts, mainly everything as code

• Build state of art Cloud Governance and Cloud Security tooling in AWS and Google Cloud

• Helping cloud solution teams to innovate and make secure, cost effective, resilient and scalable cloud environments providing supporting tools and necessary guardrails.

• Self-driven approach for continuous development

• Analytically challenge current setup and development decisions

• Developing Account management pipelines using tools like CloudFormation StackSets, Step functions, Systems Manager, Lambda, etc.

• Implement & Manage organizational level Cloud Security policies (SCP, RCP, Firewall manager, etc.)

• Collaborate closely with units like Cybersecurity, Architecture and agile execution teams to build solutions addressing the common shared goals of the cloud platform

• Collaborating with team members who are responsible Software Delivery related processes and tooling like common Gitlab/Github (including common pipelines and runner environments), SonarQube, Azure deployments, Artifactory, etc.

• Collaborate closely with units like Cybersecurity, Architecture and agile execution teams to build solutions addressing the common shared goals of the cloud platform

In Order To Be Successful In This Role

• At least 10 years of general experience in cloud, software development or system administration
• At least 5 years of experience working with AWS cloud governance related tools
• Knowledge on native AWS tooling relating Cloud security and Governance like AWS Orgnaizations, ControlTower, SCP's, Firewall manager
• AWS automation using tools like Step Functions, Lambda, CodePipeline
• Infrastructure as code with tools like CloudFormation, Terraform and CDK
• Strong scripting skills (e.g., Python, Bash, Typescript) for automation and task optimization
• Experience with version control systems (Git), continuous integration tools
• Experience of also GCP and Azure platforms would be considered a definite plus
• Kafka environment (especially MSK)
• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
• Good to have hands-on contribution in critical aspects of cloud platform engineering like platform level cross region backup & restore, monitoring infrastructure, platform scalability and operational architecture.

What We Offer

• Opportunity to work with products that are used by billions of users daily

• A challenging and rewarding role in a global company which is a leader in the elevator and escalator industry

• A collaborative and supportive work environment with a diverse and talented team

• A chance to make a positive impact on people's lives and the environment

This is a key role and a great opportunity to build the future cities through improving how people live, work and play in the cities and to help us continue innovating and making magic happen also in the future.

You will be working with highly dynamic teams significantly investing time and effort on how we develop services and solutions. You get a chance to work with and participate in further developing products that are used by billions of users in daily basis. Products that are widely recognized by their quality and innovation.

For additional information, please contact Markku Sopula, Chapter Lead, SW Delivery - Cloud & Digital markku.sopula@kone.com tel. +358 40 526 5929 (Mon-Fri 13-15 o'clock EET)

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