Cloud Platform Engineer

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Munich Re Automation Solutions (MRAS) is a Dublin headquartered multinational fintech software company which is part of the global MunichRe group, a leader in insurance with revenues of $49 billion in 2017.

As a dedicated software product and service provider, MRAS specialises in providing leading edge technology solutions, delivering advanced risk underwriting platforms to our clients across EMEA, AsiaPac and North America.

We are looking for a Cloud Platform Engineer to join the Cloud Platform team. The successful candidate will be involved in building and maintaining a technically challenging global service design, deployments, and management across our cloud platform. This role will allow the successful candidate to work on Azure on a fully cloud native tech stack. 

Profile

You will be an Engineer with experience in cloud, automation, and reliability. Day to day you will be deploying, automating, maintaining, troubleshooting, and monitoring multiple products across Azure and AWS. You will ensure that SLAs and SLOs are met and will ensure releases to production meet the platform engineering’s team standards. The role requires you to have hands-on technical experience and a can-do approach towards environment automation, management, and continuous improvement.

Core Responsibilities

• Deploying, automating, maintaining, and managing cloud-based systems, to ensure the availability, performance, scalability, and security of productions systems.

• Creating release pipelines using tooling such as Azure Devops

• Build, release, and configuration management of cloud systems

• Configuring and responding to alerts to ensure customers SLAs are met.

• Building infrastructure as code in Terraform or ARM Templates.

• Creating and maintaining flexible and robust automated build and deployment solutions

• Automate health monitoring of the production and test systems

• Integrate automation with operational requirements

• Implement monitoring, logging, observability into the platform.

• Involved in developing a highly scalable and mission critical observability platform consisting of metrics, monitoring, and logging systems.

• Interacting with other teams within MRAS

• Investigating performance degradation and resolving issues

Desired Skills

• Familiarity with orchestration tools

• Experience maintaining 24x7 uptime cloud environment, including automation experience.

• Experience with Cloud infrastructure & cloud native software design

• Experience with AWS and Azure platform services such as Azure App Service, Azure Front door & Azure Cosmos DB.

• Experience with programming & scripting languages such, Python, Java, PowerShell

• Scripting Skills: Experience scripting and automation skills such as Terraform.

• Monitoring Tools: Experience with system monitoring tools such as Azure Monitor.

• Problem Solving: Ability to analyse and resolve complex infrastructure and application deployment issues

• Demonstrated commitment to ongoing learning

• Capability to react to failures and resolve them with composure and robust, repeatable practices, including active participation in our 24/7 production support processes.

• Familiarity with CI/CD tooling such as Azure DevOps

Other core traits we look for

You will be a professional with a strong commitment to high quality, and a passion for learning new skills. You will be a gifted trouble-shooter who can think on their feet and who genuinely enjoys problem-solving, from applications all the way down to infrastructure.

You will be detail-oriented individual with the ability to rapidly learn new concepts and technologies, able to reference strong problem-solving skills, including providing simple solutions to complex situations.

You will have strong abilities to communicate and collaborate effectively in a geographically disperse working environment.

This role offers and the right candidate an excellent opportunity to broaden their technical skills and work on technologies which are cutting edge within the industry

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