Cloud Engineer – Windows & Linux Platform Automation
At a glance
Mid-level Cloud role at Ontrac Solutions. Karachi · temporary.
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What you'll do
- Turn standard operating procedures into automation routines that make everyday systems and cloud work more efficient
- Create automation runbooks for cloud engineers covering core systems, large-scale Windows servers and SaaS platforms
- Manage Windows and Linux systems across a SaaS environment with more than one hundred servers
- Build and use automation across cloud platforms, networking, databases, containers and CI/CD systems
What you bring
- At least four years managing Microsoft and Linux platforms at scale in a SaaS deployment with over one hundred servers
- Four or more years using a leading public cloud service and production networking at scale
- At least four years automating Windows and Linux environments with configuration-management tools
- Four years with Python, SQL, Terraform, PowerShell or another scripting language, plus production experience with the listed databases
Who this fits
This role suits a hands-on systems automation engineer who favors code-based management and works collaboratively. You should be comfortable with Agile work, schema changes managed as code, and taking part in an on-call rotation.
From the employer
Our client's Cloud Operations team is expanding and is looking to add a seasoned systems automation engineer with a broad cloud-automation skillset, to further build out their automation tooling. You would work across a portfolio of products, which gives wide exposure to different technologies, data sets and problems.
Day to day you will convert standard operating procedures into automation routines and optimise the daily efficiency of systems and cloud management. You will be the cornerstone for providing automation runbooks to the cloud engineering team — core systems management, advanced Windows server management at scale, and SaaS application platforms.
Why we're looking for you
- 4+ years of Microsoft and Linux platform management at scale within a SaaS deployment with 100+ servers
- 4+ years of production use of tier-1 public cloud services (Azure, AWS or GCP)
- 4+ years of production networking experience at scale
- 4+ years of production automation using configuration-management tools in Windows and Linux environments
- 4+ years of production use of SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch
- 4 years of Python, SQL, Terraform, PowerShell or other scripting languages
- 2 years of production use of container scheduling engines (Mesos, Docker, Kubernetes)
- 2 years of production management of CI/CD solutions (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI, ArgoCD)
- 3 years working in a ticketing system providing level-3 support (ServiceNow, Jira, etc.)
How you approach work
- Automation is your friend
- Open collaboration and communication
- Code over GUI-driven management
Additional requirements
- Experience working in an Agile environment
- Experience working in a global organisation
- Experience managing schema changes as code
- Ability to participate in an on-call pager rotation
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