CloudOps Engineer

Job Description

Wood Mackenzie has an exciting opportunity for a CloudOps Engineer to join a fast paced, dynamic global business to help drive change and innovation in the APAC region. We’re looking for a skilled CloudOps professional to help us transition our services to the cloud in order to ensure best practice and compliancy across our landscape.

The principal responsibility of this role is to provide support to the business in adoption of cloud native applications and services . This encompasses:

working in partnership with the business and the technology teams, bringing awareness and insight of the different operational constraints / opportunities for projects targeting cloud-based deployment.

• Governance and maintenance of cloud environments
• Support of team mentoring and project coordination
• Communication with cross-functional groups, following DevOps best practices
• A strong focus on service availability and proactive detection of problems

Operational Responsibilities

• Work with business teams on maintaining compliancy and security in our cloud space e.g. Patching, Config management
• Ensure monitoring of performance and availability of cloud services, continuously identifying areas of improvement
• Work with a continuous improvement mindset, identifying operational processes that could be improved and drafting proposals.

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Qualifications

• The successful candidate will have a solid background in IT Operation or Software Engineering with an operational mindset.
• Experience of deployment in the cloud (Amazon Web Services/Azure/Google)
• A DevOps mindset; knowledge of agile processes (Kanban / Scrum) is important and familiarity with JIRA is desired
• Ability to work proficiently in a team distributed at multiple locations and time zones

• Automation toolset knowledge (Cloudformation/Ansible/Terraform)
• Continuous Integration and Delivery toolset (Jenkins/bitbucket)
• Solid Amazon Web Services knowledge (AWS certified)
• AWS Compliancy which involves ensuring our infrastructure in good shape e.g. EC2 instances are patched.
• AWS Config
• System administration skills with Windows and Linux technology.
• Relational database knowledge is desirable – experience working with various DB technologies such as Oracle, MS SQL Server, MySQL or PostgreSQL is valuable.
• Monitoring toolset knowledge e.g Prometheus/Pingdom/Grafana
• Git and familiarity with collaboration processes (pull/merge requests, etc.); we manage our infrastructure as code, so being comfortable with scripting languages (bash, python) is important
• Experience with containerisation technologies would be advantageous (Docker/Harbor)

Additional Information

Verisk Analytics is an equal opportunity employer.

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