Senior Cloud Engineer - Kubernetes Platform

Description

The company is a global healthcare technology business with about 95,000 employees in more than 150 countries.

The team sits in the Cardiac Rhythm Software division and builds critical healthcare software.

This Senior Cloud Engineer role centres on Kubernetes-based cloud platforms in AWS production environments, with a focus on reliability, observability, automation and the developer experience.

The list of duties and skills below is not exhaustive.

Responsibilities

• Keep production environments available and performing well by tracking availability and performance across the whole system.
• Improve platform stability and the developer experience.
• Write, test and review code.
• Work with the Product Owner and Scrum Master on sprint planning and scrum ceremonies, and deliver solid results every sprint.

Requirements

• A bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering or a related technical field, or comparable hands-on experience.
• At least 5 years working in site reliability engineering or a similar role.
• 3+ years working with AWS cloud technologies.
• 3+ years working with Linux.
• Experience with Kubernetes Operators, including building custom ones.
• Experience running production workloads on Kubernetes, covering deployment, troubleshooting and upgrades.
• Strong hands-on use of infrastructure automation tools such as Terraform and Ansible.
• Go (Golang) programming, including test-driven development.
• Experience deploying and running Kubernetes clusters, ideally in a non-managed or self-managed cloud setup.
• Experience with Terraform, Kubernetes RBAC, Helm, Flux, Istio and/or Terratest.
• Experience with GitHub Actions.
• GitOps deployment practices, ideally with Flux.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes Cluster API, Bottlerocket OS and building custom AWS AMIs.

Conditions

Hybrid working model.

Benefits

• A competitive salary and a flexible benefits package, with a wide range of benefits, resources and compensation plans for every career and life stage.
• Ireland pay range: 65,600.00 EUR to 98,400.00 EUR.
• Final pay within this range depends on objective, job-related factors such as relevant experience, skills and qualifications, under the company's compensation framework.
• Eligible for a short-term incentive plan, the MIP.