Senior Cloud Engineer

Your role in helping us shape the future:
Intelsat Inflight has an exciting opportunity for a Cloud Database Engineer. You will be part of a team responsible for keeping the organization's Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure development and production environments operate efficiently and securely with a primary focus on improving and modernizing the operations of the database resources along with production customer applications.
Are you up to the challenge?
You will be a crucial working member of multi-disciplinary, highly skilled technical teams fuelled by passion for their problem-solving capabilities and provide high quality technical solutions and services that deliver business value and drive continuous improvement across the organisation.

• Drive Continuous improvement of AWS products and capabilities through smart architecture
• Build required infrastructure for optimal extraction, transformation and loading of data sources using AWS and Azure SQL technologies
• Support Azure SQL and AWS RDS environments
• Configure and support cybersecurity requirements
• Ensure all database instances are updated with the latest patches
• Monitor the performance of database environments
• Preserve data integrity through the application of industry best practices
• Work with stakeholders to design and implement database solutions
• Migrate on-premises corporate applications and data to AWS or Azure cloud
• Identify best practices for cloud database monitoring and management and promoting these best practices across the enterprise
• Familiarity with general CI/CD processes and support tool chains such as Git, Jenkins, and SonarQube
• Provide technical assistance and mentor junior members of the team
• Provide leadership in large complex development projects involving application

You should definitely have:

• Bachelor's Degree in computer science or relevant experience
• 5 - 7 years working experience with database systems, applications, and cloud support
• Intermediate skill level in SQL, Python Scripting, code versioning tools such as GIT
• Ability to use the Linux shell to troubleshoot issues
• Experience managing RDS and mySQL instances
• Experience with designing and building large scale solutions in an enterprise setting for both on premises and cloud deployments.
• Experience with AWS infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform and/or CloudFormation
• Intermediate skill level in crafting least privilege IAM policies
• A good understanding of various Virtualization and Containerization (Docker) technology
• Knowledgeable in TCP/IP protocol stack on Various Linux distributions
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills are important

It would be nice if you had:

• Understands the value of automation and a desire to automate processes
• Experience working within audited environments such as SOX or PCI-DSS
• AWS certification