Senior Cloud Engineer

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Bravura’s Commitment and Mission

At Bravura Solutions, collaboration, diversity and excellence matter. We value your ideas, giving you room to be curious and innovate in an exciting, fast-paced, and flexible environment. We look for many different skills and abilities, as well as how you can add value to Bravura and our culture.

As a Global FinTech market leader and ASX listed company, Bravura is a trusted partner to over 350 leading financial services clients, delivering wealth management technology and products. We invest significantly in our technology hubs and innovation labs, which inspire and drive our creative, future-focused mindset. We take pride in developing cutting-edge, digital first technology solutions that support our clients to achieve financial security and prosperity for their customers.

Job Purpose

We are looking for an experienced cloud engineer to work within our cloud engineering practice with a remit to develop, implement, optimize and maintain the AWS infrastructure for Bravura’s cloud hosted clients. The role requires an engineer who can leverage their extensive knowledge of AWS services to build AWS infrastructure using Terraform / Infrastructure as code in both BAU and project contexts.

You will need to be team focused, working collaboratively with other engineers within the global cloud program, proactively working to leverage and improving Bravura’s standard cloud architecture. You will also have extensive experience in Infrastructure as Code within a Gitlab repository, specifically you will need to be able to demonstrate your ability to write new code and build new pipelines, not just run it. We aim to deliver service building blocks that are simple, generic, secure and repeatable. You will have a quality focus, ensuring that all your deliveries are thoroughly tested.

This is an exciting opportunity to build the next generation cloud platform blending a mix of state-of-the-art tools / techniques

What You’ll Do

• Major focus on low level design, building via automation AWS infrastructure and Kubernetes clusters
• Focus on improving and further automating our SDLC; continuous delivery / continuous deployment pipelines
• Proactively look for opportunities to improve the way build and deliver AWS services more efficiently
• Works closely with architects to formulate low level technical designs, and technical documentation for broader consumption.
• Establish productive working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Manage the expectations of key stakeholders by facilitating effective communication
• Adopt standard terraform modules to build out AWS infrastructure requirements
• Complete technical documentation including low level designs, technical release notes and unit test artefacts
• Build / Modify Terraform modules to meet architectural requirements
• Assist with resolving security vulnerabilities and issues, including Pen Test findings, AWS security audits, Infosec requirements etc.
• Respond to critical incidents and alerts in accordance with contractual SLAs
• Work closely with other Practices – Devops, Network and DBA/Middleware in the delivery of infrastructure services
• Adopt lateral thinking to trouble shoot issues within the cloud infrastructure stack
• Develop methods to actively improve quality standards
• Collaborate with others to streamline and implement efficient processes
• Provide expert assistance to team members to facilitate incident investigation, requirements gathering and technical design activities
• Mentor and regularly engage team members to drive performance and enhance Bravura’s delivery capabilities

Unleash your potential.

Key Skills

• AWS infrastructure and services (CloudFormation, EKS, VPC, EC2, IAM, ...)
• Kubernetes (CKA is highly regarded)
• Experience with Infrastructure such as Code, CI/CD and automation tools, particularly Gitlab, Terraform, ...)
• Worked with monitoring / alerting tools such as Promethius and Grafana
• Good understanding of Linux
• EKS upgrade and patching for UAT and production accounts.
• Coding/scripting (Bash, Python, Go etc.)
• Strong knowledge of security fundamentals, including encryption, certificates, etc
• Good knowledge of networking fundamentals: DNS, load balancing, NAT, etc
• Strong ability to independently acquire new technical skills to meet a cloud infrastructure requirement.
• Good knowledge of architecture that deliver Highly Available solutions.
• An ‘eye for detail’ and quality focus
• Demonstrated customer focus
• Excellent communication and client service skills
• Strong ability to clearly communicate complex technology solutions
• Proactive and forward thinking, with the ability to suggest improvements to current processes and practices
• Flexible and adaptable approach to a range of different tasks 
• Able to organize and prioritize own work, whilst meeting agreed deadlines
• Ability to work respectfully with team members of different skill levels and capabilities
• Reliable and professional 

Essential

• Deep experience in AWS services and infrastructure, particularly EC2, EKS, IAM, VPC, ELB
• Demonstrated expertise in authoring Terraform code
• Experience with building Gitlab CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with Monitoring and Alerting at an infrastructure level, to ensure service interruption is appropriately monitored and alerted.
• DR (disaster recovery)

Preferred

• Experience with Cloud automation frameworks, DevOps, infrastructure as code and containerization 
• Experience with infrastructure and application performance monitoring 
• Experience common Cloud Solutions and Services
• AWS Certifications highly regarded
• Change management/JIRA/Servicenow
• Experience in client/infra audits
• SSL Certificate Management
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal – able to communicate ideas, concepts, and facts to both projects, peers and senior members of staff.
• Friendly, professional, and business-like approach to clients / Solutions staff.
• Delivery focused.
• Systematic, logical thinker with excellent attention to detail, but able to take a holistic view of the delivery organization and its associated processes. 

 Working at Bravura

Our people are the heart of our business. We work hard to provide a rich employee experience and a robust framework for ongoing career development.

• Competitive salary and employee benefits scheme.
• Flexible working hours, we value work-life balance.
• Maternity/ Parental (including secondary) leave policy.
• Cab facility available in Delhi/NCR.
• Meal facility available

Qualification & Experience

• MCA/B.E./B.Tech
• 5+ Years of experience