Cloud Engineer

**About GFT**

GFT Technologies is driving the digital transformation of the world’s leading financial institutions. Other sectors, such as industry and insurance, also leverage GFT’s strong consulting and implementation skills across all aspects of pioneering technologies, such as cloud engineering, artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things for Industry 4.0, and blockchain.

We’ve been a pioneer of near-shore delivery since 2001 and now offer an international team spanning 16 countries with a global workforce of over 9,000 people around the world. GFT is recognised by industry analysts, such as Everest Group, as a leader amongst the global mid-sized Service Integrators and ranked in the Top 20 leading global Service Integrators in many of the exponential technologies such as Open Banking, Blockchain, Digital Banking, and Apps Services.

**Role Summary**:
**Key Activities**:

- Tooling Development: Develop and codify shared tooling for repeatable build and deploy patterns for use across the organization.
- Legacy Migration: Migrate legacy infrastructure code and delivery pipelines to a modular structure.
- Continuous Improvement: Understand existing infrastructure as code and proactively contribute to improvements.
- Team Collaboration: Work within product teams to deliver functionality in a repeatable and automated manner.
- Operational Support: Participate in weekly team prioritization, release, and change management meetings.
- On-call Rotation: Participate in on-call rotation, supporting hybrid GCP/AWS infrastructure.
- Cross-functional Collaboration: Collaborate closely with development teams in our fast-paced delivery environment.
- Tool Identification: Identify new tooling that reduces toil based on organizational and technical gaps.

**Required Skills**:

- Cloud Engineering: 4-6 years of experience with a focus on GCP and optionally AWS.
- Automation and IaC: Experience with technology best practices for building a modern automated platform, belief in full automation, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
- Architectural Design: Ability to design and document cloud-native architectural patterns and take ownership.
- Financial Services Knowledge: Financial services background, specifically in banking, is highly advantageous, especially regarding security, compliance, and audit.
- Scalability and Fault Tolerance: Good understanding of technologies and experience in building highly scalable and fault-tolerant systems in hybrid environments.
- Initiative: Self-starter capable of working without direction and delivering projects from scratch within, at times, unstructured environments.
- Migration Experience: Experience with migrations (on-prem to cloud, code bases, technology).
- Hands-on Skills: Hands-on ability with IaC cloud build and management tools.
- Container Expertise: Container management and container orchestration expertise.
- Monitoring and Alerting: Understanding and ideas for successful monitoring and alerting.
- Messaging Systems: Strong messaging systems knowledge, preferably Kafka; alternatively, Solace/RabbitMQ/AWS Kinesis.
- Communication: Ability to communicate effectively with different stakeholders, have fresh ideas, and be pragmatic.

**Nice-to-have requirements**:

- Relevant Tools Experience:

- IaC Tools: HashiCorp Terraform, Vault, Packer, Cloud (or similar SaaS terraform vendor), Ansible, Pulumi, multiple GCP services.
- Pipeline Tools: GitLab, AWS CodeDeploy, TeamCity, Jenkins, Nexus/Artifactory, SonarQube, Snyk, OPA.
- Runtime Tools: Docker, Kubernetes, service mesh (e.g., Istio, Linkerd), SQL/RDBMS (especially PostgreSQL), ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, Kafka or AWS MSK, RabbitMQ, GCP Pub/Sub, Nginx.
- Certifications: Relevant cloud certifications (e.g., GCP Professional Cloud Architect, AWS Certified Solutions Architect).
- Advanced Security Practices: Experience with advanced security practices and compliance requirements.
- Multi-cloud Experience: Experience in working with other cloud platforms (Azure, IBM Cloud, etc.).
- Development Background: Background in software development to better collaborate with development teams.

**What we offer you**:You will be working with some of the brightest people in business and technology on challenging and rewarding projects in a team of like-minded individuals. GFT prides itself on its international environment that promotes professional and cultural exchange and encourages further individual development.

**About Us**:
We show commitment to our investors and stand for solid, long-term growth performance. Founded in Germany in 1987 and in American territory since 2008, GFT expanded globally to over 10,000 experts. And to more than 15 markets to ensure proximity to clients. With new opportunities from Asia to Brazil, the international growth story continues. We are committed to grow tech talents worldwide. Because our team’s strong consulting and development skills across legacy and pioneering technologies, like GreenCodin