Cloud Engineer – Tech Lead

Cloud Engineer – Tech Lead

Duration: 6 months

Location: Remote (mostly remote with once/twice a month in Dublin)

Rate: EUR 660.19 (ltd/umb) or EUR 524.42 (PAYE)

Ideal background: In this role the candidate is expected to have a proven experience in software development with a focus on Cloud engineering.

The Cloud Engineer – Tech Lead will implement and manage technical execution on the Azure cloud for a small set of products. The focus for this position will be the development, implementation and maintenance of Azure Cloud hosted Products leveraging ML output and processed IoT. You should be familiar with data related products and compute choices in the public cloud eco-system and understand how best to secure and manage these services in a high-availability environment. In addition you will have a positive impact on the team’s culture.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Design, configure and manage Infrastructure on the Azure Cloud
• Deliver and integrate features with upstream and backend dependencies
• Fulfil the role of Tech Lead on a new Team established to service Product requirements
• Provide guidance and mentorship to less experienced team members.
• Work alongside the Product, UI/UX and Architecture teams to design new features for the product
• Ensure security and data quality standards are established and enforced
• Stay current with emerging trends in Cloud technologies and evaluate their impact on our products
• Build infrastructure using code (IaC) and repeatable designs.
• Identify opportunities for improvement, optimize performance and scalability of existing Cloud solutions
• Setup, maintain related documentation and standards and facilitate knowledge distribution across the Teams.
• Troubleshoot and debug complex technical issues and provide timely resolution to technical challenges
• Prioritize and manage work to critical project timelines in a fast-paced environment
• Partner with internal dependent teams to design best practices and standards for integrated systems facilitating a shared Product solution.
• Mentor and train junior members of the team.

Required Qualifications:

• Prior experience in a Tech/Team leads software engineer role
• Bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field or equivalent experience
• Strong software product development experience on a public cloud ecosystem (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Extensive hands-on experience developing Cloud solutions which demonstrate a strong understanding of software engineering principles
• Experience with REST/ JSON APIs, Java, Microservices, Containerization (Images, Docker)
• Excellent knowledge of a Public Cloud (Azu, AWS, GCP) Services such as – PaaS, FaaS, Workflow orchestrators, Service Principal, Containers, Secret management etc.
• Experience of IaC using tools such as Terraform, Pulumi etc.
• Strong programming experience with two or more languages (e.g Python, Java) and scripting for automation (e.g., Bash, PowerShell).
• Experience of hands-on utilization of SQL with large data volumes.
• Understanding of cloud security principles and practices.
• Hands on experience of securing cloud applications.
• Knowledge of data pipelines with an awareness on the importance of fault tolerance within the pipelines.
• Experience in using modern software engineering tooling (Jenkins, GHA, Sonar, Twist-Lock or alternatives etc.) and process in terms of Agile delivery in a CI/CD work environment.
• Excellent leadership and communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with team members and stakeholders.
• Strong problem-solving skills with attention to detail.

Preferred Qualification:

• Experience with databases, data warehousing, and big data technologies (e.g., Databricks, Spark, DBT).
• Experience in the healthcare industry
• Excellent time management, communication, decision making, and presentation skills
• Display a strong desire to achieve and attain high levels of both internal and external customer satisfaction