Cloud Engineer

About APC

Amsterdam Platform Creation (APC), founded in 2020, supports fintech firms that deliver best-in-class financial related services. Our experienced and talented experts help these firms in becoming better and growing into something bigger. We believe that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. We provide assistance in all aspects of platform commercialization, including development, design, UX-design, technical implementation, and on/offline advertising to optimize the client funnel.

Position

If you think that “one container is not enough”, feel like automating everything, have a self-starter attitude and tech-driven curiosity, know that a good opinion must be shared, you can proceed with reading.

We are looking for a 5+ years experienced Cloud Engineer with a strong knowledge of public and private cloud technologies and experienced in supporting enterprise-scale infrastructure.

You will:

• Beat the monotony and “automate” everything
• Design and implement automated software services that support Infrastructure-as-Code principles, following the industry standards and best practices
• Design/configure/deploy/test/debug new and existing cloud infrastructure
• Design and implement Secure Cloud Networking policies and architectures
• Work in “microservice mesh” application development and Agile environment
• Continuously learn and do research to identify shortcomings and opportunities for infrastructure improvements
• Have fun with your team

Your qualification

What will help you succeed is,

Being an expert in:

• Cloud technologies (preferably GCP)
• Containerization and container orchestration technologies (preferably K8s)
• Infrastructure-as-code and infrastructure management (preferably Terraform)
• Disaster recovery, data migration and data protection tools (e.g. Velero)
• Scripting (Bash / Shell, Python, Perl, Ruby)
• Secret Managements tools (e.g. Vault)
• Metric driven monitoring and alerting systems
• Networking and security knowledge (including load balancers, routers and switching)
• High availability and business continuity principles

Being experienced in:

• Automated CI/CD solutions
• Microservice mesh management, monitoring and securing tools (preferably Consul/Istio)
• RDBMS (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or distributed NoSQL Database systems (e.g. MongoDB, Redis, Memcached, ZooKeeper, Elasticsearch, Etcd)

What we offer

• Competitive remuneration package
• Possibility to earn a performance-based bonus
• A friendly dynamic working environment, challenging job within a fast forward moving company
• Personal development focus and support
• 25 paid leave days
• Being part of an international team
• Being part of a growing company where you can develop your skills and network
• We offer as much flexibility, freedom and responsibility as possible. This means that, within limits, you will be able to choose how, when and where you work

Additional details

Communication and all issues related to the position are curated by the recruitment partner of APC.