Senior Cloud Engineer

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Revolutionizing Insurance Pricing with Transparent AI

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💰 Series B on 2021-06

Description

• Maintain and improve our infrastructure as code repositories (Terraform & ARM) to ensure Akur8's cloud remains reliable and resilient • Contributing to the expansion of Akur8's cloud whilst maintaining our SLOs • Increase automation and pipeline orchestration to remove toil • Mentoring and teaching DevOps best practices throughout our organization • Mentoring the team for Azure skills upgrading • Contributing architecture designs for our platform, in collaboration with our development and product team, to improve performance, reliability, cost-effectiveness and support new feature of our products • Help us continuously improve on monitoring and observability (mainly via Datadog) • Contributing to our CI pipelines (GitHub Actions) ensuring best practices are always applied when dealing with containers (Docker) • Working closely with our Security team to securing our cloud, by maintaining IT security standards & best practices, participating in building infrastructure scans • Contributing towards open-source projects where appropriate • Actively participate in on-call rotation (1 week per 4-6 weeks)

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent experience). • A minimum of 5 years professional experience of monitoring and maintenance production systems throughout the entire SDLC • At least 2 years recent working experience with Azure, ARM template or Terraform • Recent experience deploying, monitoring, tuning and maintaining Kubernetes. • Demonstrable experience configuring and maintaining Azure cloud environments. • Strong experience with GitHub, workflows and actions • Familiarity with the concepts of IT Security ‘best practice’ (i.e. Network Security, Firewalls & Flows Encryption, Secrets Management, Security Patch Management, Cloud identity & Access Management, etc.) • An enthusiasm to collaborate with other internal stakeholders (Software Engineering, IT Security, IT Operations). • A willingness to be ‘hands-on’ / operational whilst at the simultaneously evangelising on DevOps best practice • The curiosity / ability to challenge the status-quo, while being pragmatic. • The ability to work autonomously and the flexibility to embrace change • Strong oral and written communication skills • Fluent English language skills (spoken & written), French is a plus Bonus skills: • Programming capabilities with C# and .NET • Experience with additional programming languages such as Python or Bash • Strong experience with SQL datastores and their optimization • Experience with AWS

Benefits

• Competitive salary + annual bonus • Health insurance , Dental and Vision coverage • Retirement Savings Plans • Generous vacation policy • Commuter benefit • Gym membership via ClassPass • IT equipment allowance • Onboarding at our Paris HQ • Professional development & trainings • Team fun: regular company gatherings and team events • Fun goodies