Cloud Platform Engineer
- Evolve and operate cloud-based solutions with automation, scalability, and performance in mind.
- Continuously and proactively enhance the architecture design and implementation, taking into account performance, security, disaster recovery, and costs.
- Perform and automate operational tasks such as deployments with a DevOps mindset.
- Document as-is and future state solutions to ensure evergreen documentation is maintained.
- Collaborate with engineers to enhance operational resilience, scalability, and observability.
- Collaborate with various stakeholders (CTO, data team, release engineers, etc.) to make sure solutions fit into the Sonar ecosystem.
- Document and share reusable building blocks.
- Own testability of the infrastructure (deploy, validate, tear-down).
- Maintain physical and logical plans.
- Take planned steps to ensure that all platforms and capabilities operate within a given region and account limits to ensure scalability.
- Dedicate effort to improve resilience and scalability tests in performance environments to stay ahead of growth inhibitors.
- Participate in AWS Well-Architected Reviews and Trusted Advisor findings resolution.
- Prod-oriented, AWS Cloud background, and belief in having DevOps profiles working together as a tightly-knit team.
- You are motivated by both the technical and the functional aspects of services.
- Experience in supporting production services with good security practices.
- You are trained and believe in leveraging managed services.
- You are a friendly, attentive, enthusiastic, and organized team player.
- Solid experience with architecture: experience with delivering cloud-native applications, architecture modelling, and implementation on AWS.
- You see yourself as a Cloud Platform Engineer who knows how to implement the blueprints you designed.
- Motivated by both technical and functional aspects of services, you understand the value of code over presentations and see yourself as an engineer at heart.
- 3+ years of experience with AWS implementations and automating deployments.
- Strong understanding of software development practices: quality, testing (unit, functional, and resilience), and CI/CD.
- Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code using the AWS CDK python library.
- Experience with AWS Well-Architected Review and/or AWS certification.
- Developing in Python and Bash with clean code is a must. You enjoy exploring new technologies.
- Comfortable with agile practices and principles by working in sprints.
- A DevOps mindset is a must-have.
- We value a safe work culture - founded in respect, kindness, and the right to fail.
- We hire great people - we value communication skills as much as technical prowess and we strive to create a work environment that allows for everyone to succeed and feel empowered to do their best work. Our 500+ SonarSourcers from 35 different nationalities can relate!
- Work-life balance - a healthy work-life balance is very important at Sonar.
- Flexible hours - we schedule our days in order to be effective at work, while also being able to enjoy life’s important moments.
- We promote continuous learning - in an ever-changing industry, learning new skills is the key to growth and success! We're happy to support all employees in this journey if desired.
Place of work
PO Box 765
1215 Geneva 15