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Senior Cloud Engineer
@Pythian
[Hiring] Senior Cloud Engineer @Pythian
Mar 21, 2025 - Pythian is hiring a remote Senior Cloud Engineer. đź’¸ Salary: unspecified. đź“ŤLocation: Canada.
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Role Description
As a Senior Cloud Engineer you will build high-quality solutions to help our customers achieve their business objectives. You will work independently or as part of a team to understand the project’s trajectory, provide insights on implementation details, and deliver consistent, high-quality solutions leveraging automation.
- Build and maintain client relationships, providing technical leadership and guidance for current projects.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business requirements, assist in project planning, and document project plans for both small and medium-sized projects.
- Participate in and support sprint planning activities with the Project Manager, including story point estimation and ceremonies such as standups, backlog grooming, and retrospectives.
- Design and implement technical solutions for customer projects, ensuring scalability and efficiency.
- Create or contribute to building technical design documents and other necessary documentation for projects.
- Write testable, high-performance, reliable, and maintainable code for CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code frameworks (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation).
- Design and implement security and network software components for multi-cloud solutions and architectures.
- Research, evaluate, and recommend third-party software and technology packages based on project requirements. Provide performance optimization recommendations and document best practices.
- Create cloud migration strategies and plans, following best practices and ensuring smooth transitions to cloud architectures.
- Develop automated provisioning solutions for servers, environments, containers, and data centers.
Qualifications
- Experience with engineering solutions on major cloud provider platforms, preferably Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and one or both of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure.
- Hands-on experience with operating system platform configuration, tuning, and administration for Linux or Windows, with a preference for both.
- Strong understanding of application performance and design best practices to ensure applications and services are highly available, performant, scalable, and secure.
- High proficiency with open-source tools, including Hashicorp solutions such as Terraform, Packer, and Vault, along with other deployment frameworks like Pulumi.
- Proficiency in at least one popular programming language (e.g., Go, Java, Python, Ruby, Rust).
- Solid understanding of testing techniques and frameworks, including test and behavior-driven development, with experience in writing test suites, mocks, and fixtures.
- Capability to write scripts for maintenance, automation, and data processing using scripting languages such as Bash, Groovy, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, PowerShell, or R.
- Experience with common configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Chef, Puppet).
- Strong knowledge of automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications, ideally with hands-on experience using Kubernetes and tools like Helm.
- Exposure to Anthos is a plus.
- Skilled in common CI/CD tools, patterns, and techniques, with familiarity in pipeline enablement products such as ArgoCD, Azure DevOps, Cloud Build, GitLab, or Jenkins.
- Understanding of development methods, workflows, and patterns, particularly Agile and DevOps practices.
- Experience with stream-processing platforms and services, such as Kafka and Cloud Pub/Sub.
- Solid understanding of data security principles, including encryption, access control, and identity management, and their technical application to enforce data custodianship and compliance.
- Experience with on-premise architectures and visualization applications such as vCenter.
- Experience in MLOPs is a plus.
Benefits
- Competitive total rewards and salary package.
- Flexibly work remotely from your home, there’s no daily travel requirement to an office! All you need is a stable internet connection.
- Collaborate with some of the best and brightest in the industry!
- Hone your skills or learn new ones with our substantial training allowance; participate in professional development days, attend training, become certified, whatever you like!
- We give you all the equipment you need to work from home including a laptop with your choice of OS, and an annual budget to personalize your work environment!
- Pythian cares about the health and well-being of our team. You will have an annual wellness budget to make yourself a priority (use it on gym memberships, massages, fitness and more). Additionally, you will receive a generous amount of paid vacation and sick days, as well as a day off to volunteer for your favorite charity.
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Software Development
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Salary
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Canada
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Mar 21, 2025
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