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Job Description
Summary of Cloud Platform Engineer Job
Zurich Dublin Technology Center seeks a Cloud Platform Engineer to develop and manage cloud infrastructure, ensuring customer satisfaction, cost effectiveness, and operational integrity.
Job Description
The Cloud Platform Engineer will be responsible for enabling and maximizing our ability to exploit cloud for business benefits through Infrastructure as Code, while ensuring customer satisfaction, cost effectiveness, operational integrity, and adherence to relevant industry best practices.
- Be responsible for code that provisions, configures, automates, monitors, and supports enterprise Cloud services that can be consumed by other development/platform teams.
- Enable enterprise datacentre modernisation/migration initiatives by developing platform and infrastructure as code which supports global business applications and operations.
- Assist in the development of processes and practices to support migration of workloads to public cloud.
- Through automation, enforce continuous compliance to industry operation and security standards.
- Develop code to support the safe orchestration and release of infrastructure, applications, and Workloads to Cloud environments.
- Work with the Cloud Architect to support architectural design and new cloud service implementations utilising industry best practices.
- Provide out of hours on-call support for production and development environments as an escalation point.
Requirements
- 5+ years' experience in cloud engineering.
- Experience of managing public/private cloud technologies in a large-scale enterprise environment.
- Relevant degree or diploma programme of study.
- Experience with one or more Infrastructure as Code Languages: Terraform, Cloud Formation, ARM, Ansible, Chef, Puppet.
- Terraform is preferred.
- Experience writing code in at least one of the following languages: Java, .NET, Node.js, PHP, Python, Ruby.
- Python is preferred.
- Experience of working to Dev Ops principles and in an Agile environment.
- Familiarity with version control platforms e.g. Git, Perforce, SVN, TFVC.
- Git is preferred.
Zurich is a leading insurance company providing a wide range of general insurance and life insurance products and services. We employ over 1,000 people across our locations in Dublin and Wexford.