Cloud Engineer III

The Role: Cloud Engineer III

The Team:
At S&P Global, cloud computing continues to allow us to modernize and consolidate IT infrastructure, automate workloads, and pursue next-generation innovation. To continue this transformation, we’re seeking an experienced Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud engineer with expertise in the strategy, design, development, and implementation of large-scale projects in the cloud. The ideal candidate is experienced in cloud-based tech, with a firm grasp of emerging technologies, platforms, and applications, and ability to customize them to help our business become more secure and efficient. Extensive knowledge of cloud maintenance, experience managing staff, and advanced industry knowledge is key to keeping us on the cutting edge. From day one, you’ll have an immediate impact on the day-to-day efficiency of our IT operations, and an ongoing impact on our overall growth.

What’s in it for you:

• The opportunity to work on cutting edge infrastructure technologies
• Excellent training programs hosted directly by cloud providers
• Flexible working hours & great work-life balance
• Getting to work with some of the best engineers in the field.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborating with engineering and development teams to evaluate and identify optimal cloud solutions.
• Define and document best practices and strategies regarding application deployment, monitoring and infrastructure maintenance.
• Designing, developing and deploying modular cloud-based systems.
• Ensuring efficient functioning of data storage and processing functions in accordance with company security policies and best practices in cloud security.
• Identifying, analyzing, and resolving infrastructure vulnerabilities and application deployment issues.
• Regularly reviewing existing systems and making recommendations for improvements.
• Explore best of breed Industry tools and products to manage with ease a multi account AWS environment.
• Migrating existing legacy systems to cloud and document solutions and practices
• Carrying out deployment, maintenance, monitoring, and management tasks within this implemented cloud structure.
• Set up, configure, and monitor CI/CD Pipelines using automation and re-usable templates.
• Timely respond to incident around the platform, identify and isolate root cause quickly
•  Provide support for Production, DR and lower environments making sure platform is stable and highly available.
• Work closely with supervisor/manager to identify and initiate changes to improve cloud operation efficiency, following S&P Global standards.

Requirement:

• Master’s or bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, information technology, or mathematics. 
• Overall 5+ years of working experience with 3+ years of experience architecting, designing, developing, and implementing cloud solutions on AWS platforms.
• Understanding of and experience with the five pillars of a well-architected frameworks.
• Hands on experience on AWS services (Compute, Storage, Networking, Security)
• Proven ability to collaborative with multi-disciplinary teams of business analysts, developers, data scientists, and subject matter experts.
• Experience with SysOps.
• Hands-on experience in Container technologies like Docker/ Docker enterprise, ECS, EKS, etc.
• Experience with DevOps practices and modern CI/CD deployment models using Azure DevOps/Jenkins/Ansible/Kubernetes. 
• Skilled in use of these programming languages: Shell/Python/PowerShell (two of them at least).
• Experience of managing and supporting HA/DR system in cloud environment.
• Excellent troubleshooting and Analytics skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication in English.
• Passionate about work and good learning ability.
• Relevant training and/or certifications as a Cloud Engineer

Nice to have: 

• Knowledge/Experience in database (MySQL/PostgreSQL/SQL Server) operation.
• Experience in several of the following areas: database architecture, ETL, business intelligence, big data, machine learning, advanced analytics.
• Knowledge of web services, APIs, REST
• AWS certifications are a plus.

Job Grade: 10

The Location: Islamabad

S&P Global Corporate:

At S&P Global, we don't give you intelligence—we give you essential intelligence. The essential intelligence you need to make decisions with conviction. We're the world's foremost provider of credit ratings, benchmarks and analytics in the global capital and commodity markets. Our divisions include S&P Global Ratings, S&P Global Market Intelligence, S&P Dow Jones Indices and S&P Global Platts. For more information, visit .

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