Cloud Engineer (Container Platform)

The Role: Cloud Engineer (Cloud Platform).

Grade: This is a grade 09A position (Relevant to Internal Applicants only).

The Location: This role is based in Islamabad, Pakistan.

The Team: Software-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a team of experts collaborating across divisions and driving continuous improvements in platform innovation and usability of S&P Global messaging platform, API Gateways and DevOps platform. We provide these platform as a service to all divisions of S&P global.

The Impact: You would help accelerate our growth as part of SOA team within Platforms & Operations Engineering organization. This is an excellent opportunity to join S&P Global as we transform our infrastructure and move into the cloud, while also developing your skills and furthering your career as we plan to power the markets of the future.

What’s in it for you: We are looking for a highly motivated Cloud Engineer to join our Platforms & Operations Engineering team supporting Container Platform as part of our DevOps transition.  The Container platform is built using latest technologies such as Docker Enterprise and Kubernetes and is hosted in our on-premises data centers as well as in the cloud.  You would help accelerate our growth as part of SOA team within Platforms & Operations Engineering organization. This is an excellent opportunity to join S&P Global as we transform our infrastructure and move into the cloud, while also developing your skills and furthering your career as we plan to power the markets of the future.

Responsibilities:

• Work together with various domestic and overseas teams across the organization to ensure that the SOA & Docker & Kubernetes based Container Platform is reliable, operational, performant, and meets business requirements as well as committed SLA.
• Setup, configure and monitor Container platform and conduct routine maintenance work for smooth operation with guaranteed uptime.
• Onboard applications to the platform as and when needed with high priority.
• Assist various DEV and QA teams during their development and testing following the guidelines provided.
• Work closely with supervisor/manager in day-to-day operation activities.
• Conduct and/or assist in conducting regular capacity analysis and POCs.
• Develop and maintain the platform automation tools, dashboard and utilities (Java and .NET C#).
• Provide support for Production, DR and lower environments making sure platform is stable and highly available.

What we’re looking for:

Basic Qualifications:

• BS in Computer Science, Engineering or in equivalent discipline is required.
• Minimum 2-5 years of relevant work experience managing platform and/or infrastructure.
• Minimum 1-2 years of experience in any industry leading container platform such as Docker Enterprise or Kubernetes is required.
• Proficient with modern DevOps tools including Jenkins and Azure DevOps (VSTS) based CI/CD pipelines.
• Hands-on knowledge or experience of AWS is a plus.
• Understand well the SOA constructs and tools – i.e. XML, WSDL, WADL, JSON, Web Services, RESTful services, SOAP, etc.
• Understands well PaaS concepts and SOA including Service abstraction, System Integration, Reusable Designs, etc.
• Some knowledge in managing and administrating Container platform and Application Servers / Appliance such as WebLogic, WebSphere, Tomcat, Nginx etc.
• Strong experience on application deployment and monitoring.  Experience with Prometheus or similar tools is preferable.
• Good hands-on experience with Linux/Unix and Windows OS.

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