Cloud Engineer

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Our purpose:

Join the Platform team as an AWS Engineer! Become the one that defines, implements, and documents the Cloud integration process, and provides automation of it in the spirit of CI/CD, and Infrastructure as A Code.

Who we are:

We’ve been at the forefront of trading innovation since 1974, taking on the challenge to deliver an unmatched experience for our clients and raise the bar for tomorrow’s opportunities. Today, we’re a global fintech company incorporating the IG, tastylive, IG Prime, Spectrum and DailyFX brands, with a presence in 20 countries across five continents and over 400 000 active clients worldwide. But we know our success is only possible because of our people, who we encourage and empower to be brave, determined, and inventive. Join us if you’d like to work in an inclusive, collaborative team that will recognize your talent and allow it to shine.

Where you’ll work:

As part of our hybrid working environment, you’ll split your time between home and the office. In this way, you’ll be able to enjoy a better work-life balance and always bring your best self to your role.
At the office, you’ll have access to everything you’d expect from a world-class employer, such as a modern working environment, agile spaces, private quiet rooms, and breakout areas. Plus, all our offices are in iconic city centres, close to everything you might need for a rewarding working experience.

While you will be based in our Bangalore office, you will be working with our IT teams in Krakow and London. Join IG, and you will be joining the best in an always-moving industry. We are constantly improving and developing our backend systems making sure we are at the front of the market from technology and quality of work perspective.

How you’ll grow:

Your personal and professional development are important to us. As a company that’s constantly redefining the boundaries of possibility, we’ll challenge you to push yourself, accelerate your ambitions and rise to new levels of excellence. We know that’s a big ask, so we’ll make sure that you’re supported all the way, getting the backing you need and the recognition you deserve. If you connect with our vision and can get behind it, you’ll be rewarded with countless opportunities to experience new things and enhance your abilities.

Our Platforms team is constantly evolving, and there is always an opportunity to specialize in a future-oriented field.

What you’ll get:

As well as having the chance to attend regular social events and join special-interest groups, you get an attractive selection of benefits working with IG: 
•  Matched giving for your fundraising activity
•  Flexible working hours and work-from-home opportunities 
•  Performance-related bonuses 
•  Pension, insurance and medical plans 
•  Career-focused technical and leadership trainings in-class and online, incl. unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning platform
• Contribution to gym memberships and more 
•  A day off on your birthday  
•  Two days volunteering leave per year

What you will do:

Join us if you’d like to work in an inclusive, collaborative team that will recognize your talent and allow it to shine. In this role you will:

The Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer will participate in design, deployment & operation of IaaS on a multi-cloud platform(AWS,GCP) for production environment using Devops Automation.

• Design and implement a process of integrating accounts, roles, and applications into the AWS/GCP cloud
• Manage the integration, formalize it using Terraform, and connect with the on-prem infrastructure
• Provide tools for continuous delivery, management, and audit of the AWS/GCP cloud
• Create automation of repetitive processes, and hand them over to the development teams.

Who you are:

Senior AWS Engineer should design and automate the process with proper tools.

• Developing appropriate DevOps channels throughout the organization.

• Evaluating, implementing and streamlining DevOps practices.

• Establishing a continuous build environment to accelerate software deployment and development processes.

 • Engineering general and effective processes.

• Helping operation and development teams to solve their problems.

• Handling cloud-based environments - Amazon Web Services (AWS).

• Handling automated deployment CI/CD tools

• Supervising, Examining and Handling technical operations.

• Providing a DevOps Process and Operations.

• Capacity to handle teams with leadership attitude.

Must have skills:

• 8-10 years of experience in the IT infrastructure space

• 4+ years in design, deploy and operate public cloud infrastructure - IaaS (AWS, GCP & Azure)

• 2+ years of experience in Infrastructure As Code ( Terraform/Ansible/Pulumi etc)

• Must have Devops skills required (CI\CD, Terraform ,Ansible, Jenkins,Gitlab,Bitbucket,Artifactory Python, Git ,etc…)

• Deep working knowledge of networking technologies including Layer-2, Layer-3 protocols (BGP, OSPF, MPLS)

• Deep understanding of services like VPC, Direct Connect, Transit Gateways, VPN (AWS, GCP & Azure)

• Good understanding on the PaaS layer

• Drive initiatives to identify right set of cloud technologies/ provider to be used for specific type of solutions and drive the effort to templatize and automate those technologies to be used at scale in all products and applications across the organization.

• Define and implement the relevant monitoring and alerting.

• Write and maintain technical documentation, for internal use and for other stakeholders.

• Experience in orchestration tools and technologies (AWX , Ansible Tower, Terragrunt etc)

Nice to have skills:

• AWS certification (AWS Certified Solutions Architect)

• Good knowledge of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (or CentOS)

• Bash and one other scripting language (preferably Python or Go)

• Experience with server build and management tools, such as Puppet, Ansible
  Secure cloud connectivity using Aviatrix/Arista etc

• Ability to work in a SAFe Agile environment

• AWS or GCP Network specialty certification is a huge plus

• Experience with Kubernetes container orchestration and Management (EKS) 

From the team:

We work with a lot of high-profile technologies and manage thousands of servers. We have a say in what we use, and how we use it. Your ideas might be implemented for everyone else to use on a daily basis. There's a lot to learn, but you'll be able to use that knowledge in real world circumstances.

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