Cloud Operations Engineer
CurrentTasked with maintaining the cloud environment, while ensuring the smooth deployment, upgrades and operation of all instances. The main focus of the role is on supporting the activities of various internal teams as well as addressing performance or availability challenges along the way. Key activitiesCloud OperationsUtilize and improve the currently developed automation to deploy, configure and maintain the cloud services. Collaborate with internal teams to facilitate their work by managing the containers' lifecycle and addressing any issues with the infrastructure. Perform product installations and upgrades, and occasionally communicate with IT specialists on the customer side to discuss the more complex setups. An essential part of the job is to work closely with developers to gain insight into the requirements, installation steps, and runtime specifics of our software. This allows to investigate production issues reported by the Support team or by our monitoring system. MonitoringUtilize the deployed monitoring solutions to detect, investigate and take measures to address any performance or availability issues on the infrastructure. System administration Collaborate with the Infrastructure team in applying best security and administration practices, thus ensuring the smooth operation and integrity of all physical hosts, networking devices, containers, and virtual machines in our cloud. You will typically deal with Linux but there are also several Windows servers to take care of. Technologies used:* Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS * Windows Server 2019 * Ansible * LXD * ZFS * KVM * Grafana * Icinga 2