Cloud Engineer

About the role

The Cloud Engineer is pivotal in managing and optimizing core infrastructure and services that empower all engineering teams across the organization. This role focuses on cost control, ensuring security, and driving automation to enhance operational efficiency and scalability. The Cloud Engineer builds and maintains cloud hygiene practices, provides visibility into infrastructure costs, and oversees SaaS product permissions, contracts, costs, and licenses. By fostering best practices in automation and resource management, the role ensures the stability, security, and cost-effectiveness of the organization’s foundational systems, enabling seamless delivery of business objectives.

What will you be doing?

• Contributing to the design, build, and operational management of a highly scalable, secure and available infrastructure operating 24x7
• Ensuring that Auctane infrastructure platforms are secure and can scale to support rapid growth in transaction volumes during peak business periods. Limit or eliminate exposure to single points of failure
• Design and build infrastructure platforms with the highest security levels. Respond swiftly to new and emerging security threats and vulnerabilities.
• Creating tools and automated workflow capabilities to enable our software engineers to test and promote code across the different environments with maximum velocity
• Collaborating with software engineering teams throughout the software development lifecycle and promoting an operational mindset to ensure the ongoing success
• Constantly improving the platform by introducing new technologies where appropriate, driving efficiency, and reducing technical debt.
• Work with engineering teams on solution design, capacity planning, and performance.
• Promote and implement system, infrastructure, and operational best practices.
• Championing cloud native design and ensuring our cloud environment is highly available, resilient, and cost-efficient.
• Provide out-of-hours support as part of a scheduled rota or critical project delivery.
• Ensure data stores are handling data according to our policies.

What are we looking for?

What do we offer?

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