Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Category: Technology
Location:
Klir is on a mission to make water better. Our customers are global leaders in water management. We are looking for a cloud infrastructure engineer to join our team.
In this role, you apply your technical skills and operational experience to evolve our secure, performant and resilient global SaaS cloud environment. This includes providing best practices on secure implementation, automated provisioning of infrastructure and applications, cloud-service integration, and more.
The ideal candidate for this role is a self-starter who can work independently with minimal oversight, has an agile DevOps mindset, is a subject matter expert in building cloud products, and has a passion to learn.
You command broad knowledge on Cloud network administration and engineering topics, but relish the opportunity to dig in deep on new technologies.
You are comfortable with Infrastructure as Code(IaC) scripting, and always consider when you should automate a task
Note: Although this is a remote role, you are expected to work on Toronto / East Coast business hours, and be available for quarterly in-person meetings.
Responsibilities
- Consulting with client stakeholders on strategies for deployment of new cloud technology implementations, monitoring and optimization of existing equipment
- Delivering end-to-end infrastructure management solutions in a cloud environment
- Improving infrastructure operations through better use of monitoring, configuration and scripting best practices
- Automating infrastructure migration to cloud environments
- Implementing cloud governance, build, deployment and monitoring standards
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- Ability to obtain a Security Clearance if needed
- Hands-on experience with commercial cloud platforms like Google Cloud, AWS, and Azure. Strong preference for credentialed expertise with Azure Cloud services
- Experience automating infrastructure provisioning and continuous integration/delivery with tools like Azure DevOps, Terraform or AWS Cloud Formation.
- At least 2 years of experience with virtualization, containerization and container orchestration, including kubernetes and docker.
- 3+ years of experience with Infrastructure-Based Processes: Monitoring, Capacity Planning, Performance Tuning, Disaster Recovery, Configuration and Support
- 2+ years of experience with Servers, Infrastructure, Platform Sizing, Infrastructure Cost Reduction
- Experience with standard IT security practices such as identity and access management, data protection, encryption, certificate and key management.
Personal attributes:
- Active Listener
- Builds Relationships
- Scrum Values
- Follows Processes
- Time Management
- Meets Commitments
The ideal candidate:
- You thrive equally in strategy and execution. You are inventive and resourceful and can turn your ideas quickly into implementations. We move fast, but we are smart about it.
- You are entrepreneurial at heart, but methodical in your approach.
- You love to learn about your craft and your own personal development.
- You get a rush when you’re super busy and getting a lot done. You get a super rush when your efforts land in a win.
- You would rather just try a new idea than spend days talking about it.
- You believe in collaboration and enjoy adding value and getting value by engaging with every department that touches the customer experience.
- You’re probably your own toughest critic and have an internal drive to succeed and help others do the same. You never want to be the weak link, but the strongest.
- You are passionate about water and ensuring that the developed world has enough safe and secure water needed to sustain our species for generations to come.
Benefits
Why work at Klir ?
Water is arguably the most important resource in the world and yet the industry is notoriously slow at innovating and adopting new technologies that allow them to easily