Cloud Engineer

Job Description

O.C. Tanner is an HR technology and services company, and the global leader in engaging workplace cultures. Every day, we help thousands of top companies create peak moments that inspire people to achieve, appreciate, and thrive at work. From Boston to Bengaluru, clients use our Culture Cloud™ suite to attract, engage, and retain talent, bond teams, drive innovation, fuel great leadership, communicate company values, and craft employee experiences people love.

Cloud Engineer

Responsible for the maintenance, support, programming, and other technological duties associated with O.C. Tanner's cloud computing environment.

Job Description:

This is a true DevOps role with both development and operations responsibilities. We run a modern stack including Kubernetes, Docker, Grafana, AWS, NodeJS and Go.

Primary responsibilities are, but not exclusive:

• Programming/developing tools and resources for cloud platform systems.
• Assist team through the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging.
• Assist in all phases of the software development lifecycle (planning, design, implementation, deployment and support).
• Assist in gathering system requirements from multiple cross-functional stakeholders.
• Write performance and integration tests for cloud systems.
• Manage upgrades of cloud platform systems.
• Set up monitoring for internally built tooling and systems.
• Write technical guides and API documentation.
• Participate in engineering disaster recovery and reliability efforts.
• Collaborate with the engineering teams to enable their applications to run efficiently with optimal uptime.
• Stay familiar with current cloud technologies -- including containers, virtualization, microservices, etc.
• Define and automate processes for onboarding/offboarding users and access to systems.
• Other tasks and activities to support the IT Department as needed.

Job Requirements

Qualifications include 1-3 years' experience:

• Ability to assist in debugging distributed systems and scale them.
• Comfortable reading and writing SQL and navigating Postgres databases.
• Preferred technical certifications or four-year degree.
• Experience with (either administrating or using) Linux based POSIX systems.
• Experience with cloud-based infrastructure (AWS, Azure and/or Google Cloud).
• Experience with Kubernetes or Docker.
• Experience with software development, engineering, deployment, and CI/CD.
• Experience with tools such as git, terraform and Github/Gitlab.
• Understanding of JSON and YAML.
• Knowledge and use of Agile methodologies, i.e. Kanban, Scrum, Lean, etc.
• Understanding of IT terminology, such as: Containers, DevOps, PaaS, IaaS, SQL, NoSQL
• Use and familiarity with communication and collaboration systems, such as: MS Outlook, Slack, Jira, Teams, Zoom, etc.
• Good communication and collaborative skills.
• Ability to be self-motivated and work remotely when required.
• Prefer self-directed learners passionate with new or unknown technologies.

Working conditions

The job will require some evening, weekend, and on-call rotations.

Job Location

The job location includes a fully remote option.