Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Job Summary

As a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in SITA's Airports Portfolio you play an important role in technical design, development and maintenance of the Azure Cloud platform and related services (using existing and emerging technologies) to enable the modernisation and efficient delivery of services to our customers. We are seeking a talented and experienced Azure Cloud Engineer to join our portfolio platform team - dedicated to developing and deploying our cloud solutions in the best possible way now and into the future.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the design, planning and implementation of our Azure cloud solutions and services to ensure optimum cloud performance and reliability across our cloud infrastructure, building in continuous process improvement and CI/CD pipelines.

• Work as part of a broader team of problem solvers helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution via automation.

• Create re-usable platform components for products, develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines from development right though to production.

• Interface with developers, engineers, architects, Ops and Support staff to design develop and implement cost effective Cloud Solutions using IaaS/PaaS/SaaS so that it is flexible extensible elastic secure and reliable at large scale.

• Works within agile methodologies, following SITA coding guidelines and practices for all technical processes and documenting solutions.

• Support junior team members in the development of their skillset and provide support to Operational teams.

  Experience

• 3+ years Cloud Platform Engineering experience

• Experience designing, configuring & implementing infrastructure and network solutions in Azure.

• Experience with LAN & WAN networking, TCP/IP, load balancing principles.

• Experience with hub and spoke and landing zones.

• Experience with automating CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps.

• Experience with production grade AKS clusters and associated challenges.

• Experience with creating application and infrastructure monitoring solutions.

• Experience creating and delivering Cloud Platform technology roadmaps

  Knowledge & Skills

• Ability to be play a core role on complex projects through implementation and/or support.

• Strong understanding of cloud security concepts and how to apply in Azure.

• Sound understanding of agile methodologies and practices.

• Strong understanding of Azure networking VNet peering, NSGs, UDR, NAT Gateway, private DNS, service endpoints

• Experience in managing and provisioning infrastructure through code (IaC).

• Ability to quickly learn and understand new technologies or concepts

• You thrive in a team environment, excellent communication skills, with the ability to work independently & as a member of the team

• Experience and skills in the following technologies: Terraform experience with module authoring, state management, provider configuration, CI/CD integration

• Azure DevOps CI/CD Pipeline Engineering.

• Own the Azure Pipelines template library (multi-stage YAML), self-hosted agent infrastructure, and automated testing integration

• Kubernetes Operations managing AKS cluster lifecycle, Kluctl/Helm deployment orchestration, operator configuration

• Proficiency with GNU Make as a build orchestration tool

• Semantic versioning, commit conventions, and automated dependency management (Renovate, sv4git, commitlint)

• Container Platform - maintain Docker base images, agent images, and secure image supply chain via industry best practices such as utilising ACRs and Trivy scanning

• Practical hands-on Azure skills including Azure AppGW, WAF, Vnet, Routing, Subnets, App services, VM s, Helm and Helmfile

• Security & Compliance Azure best practices for cloud security such as enforcing network segmentation, private endpoints, CIS-hardened images, WAF policies, RBAC, and managed identity patterns

• PowerShell module development, Pester testing, Azure automation

• Bash shell scripting for container entry points and CI tasks

• Active directory, Azure AD, Azure AD B2C

• Git-based workflows with trunk-based development and branch-per-environment patterns

• Experience in the following an advantage: Testing & Quality - maintain/extend the continuous deployment test framework (Postman API tests, K6 load tests, Pester unit tests)

• Experience managing RabbitMQ clusters in Kubernetes

• Experience with Go / GoLang and Python languages

• Experience with the JinJa2 template engine

• MSSQL, Azure SQL

• Azure FinOps expertise & experience

• Azure Certification

• Previous application development experience

  Professional Competencies

• Agile Methodologies

• Cloud Computing

• Information Security Management

• Innovation

• Performance Measurement and Tuning

• Systems Thinking

  Core Competencies

• Communication

• Customer Focus

• Results Orientation

• Teamwork

  Education & Qualifications

University degree or equivalent preferably in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or similar. Where applicable a recognised professional qualification is desirable.

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