Job Title: Cloud Engineer, Goa, India
Reporting to: Sr. SaaS Manager, India
Job Role
The Cloud Operations team is responsible for providing world-class infrastructure for hosting ODL’s SaaS
offerings.
This role will manage teams that support ODL’s mission-critical SaaS hosting infrastructure and supporting
services, working in close coordination with colleagues in London, UK.
You will be responsible for hiring, coaching, and engaging talented engineers in a fast-changing and
innovative environment. You will work closely with cross-functional and geographically distributed teams
that could include DevOps, DBA, and Network, NOC, and InfoSec professionals. You should have an
always-on mentality, a passion for metrics-driven decisions, and a desire to execute drastically
differentiated technical operations processes using cutting edge technologies. This role will include
running deep-dives into weekly metrics and escalations, leveraging your broad Operations Management
experience to raise the level of the team performance in an atypical fast paced environment and coaching
a team from a global talent pool
Position Responsibilities:
- Manage and coordinate day to day activities of the Cloud Infrastructure teams in a global support
model and continuously keep goals and deliverables aligned with India and UK team members and
management. - Support management of colocation datacenters and cloud environments to ensure operational
excellence. - Provide guidance for resource management and operations coverage for 24x7X365 infrastructure
hosting which runs world-class SaaS applications. - Support continued refinement and expansion of infrastructure health monitoring and incident
response. - Work directly with customers at all levels on escalated issues to manage customer expectations and
drive issues to resolution. - Ensure one follows the established change and incident and change management processes.
- Understand and continuously recommend improvements to Cloud Operations processes,
documentation, and tools. - Obtain and keep up to date the organizational and technical knowledge required to perform the role.
Candidate Requirements:
This role requires a seasoned, skilled, independent, self-motivated, and smart individual, who is
experienced with 24×7 mission-critical cloud infrastructure, operations, processes, tools, and best
practices. The ideal candidate must possess excellent communication skills, including ability to interact
and work with staff and leadership at all levels, in person as well as over email, phone, and video.
- 4+ years of experience in IT including experience in a cloud, online services, or SaaS product-based
organization. - Significant practical experience managing or supporting large-scale on-prem and public cloud
infrastructure, including:- Sizeable AWS/Azure public cloud infrastructure
- Configuration management and infrastructure automation platforms, e.g. Chef, Jenkins,
Terraform, AWS CloudFormation - Infrastructure and application monitoring tools, e.g. Datadog, New Relic, Splunk.
- Significant practical experience with 24×7 support or administration of large-scale,
transaction-intensive, multi-site, international IT infrastructure operations involving
hundreds of servers and 99.99% SLA. - Good working knowledge of Windows and Linux operating systems, virtualization, SQL
and/or NoSQL databases, servers, storage, web servers, networking concepts, and
infrastructure security. - Practical experience or a high level of comfort working with multiple teams in a fast-moving, agile software development environment.
- Good understanding of incident and change management processes in an agile
environment - Flexibility, adaptability, and ability to deal with ambiguous situations on a consistent basis.
- Strong work ethic, highly organized, able to work independently with minimal supervision.
Due to 24x7x365 nature of cloud infrastructure operations, this role may require flexible work schedule and
off-hours support from time to time
