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Equinix is the world's digital infrastructure company®, operating over 260 data centers across the globe. Digital leaders harness Equinix's trusted platform to bring together and interconnect foundational infrastructure at software speed. Equinix enables organizations to access all the right places, partners and possibilities to scale with agility, speed the launch of digital services, deliver world-class experiences and multiply their value, while supporting their sustainability goals.
Our culture is based on collaboration and the growth and development of our teams. We hire hardworking people who thrive on solving challenging problems and give them opportunities to hone new skills and try new approaches, as we grow our product portfolio with new software and network architecture solutions. We embrace diversity in thought and contribution and are committed to providing an equitable work environment that is foundational to our core values as a company and is vital to our success.
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Job Summary
Senior Cloud Engineer/Architect with extensive experience leading initiatives within a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCOE). This role showcases expertise in cloud technologies, where the individual specializes in developing innovative solutions and providing strategic advisory support. Dedicated to driving best practices and fostering a culture of cloud excellence within the organization, ensuring that teams are empowered to effectively leverage cloud capabilities for enhanced operational efficiency and business transformation.
Responsibilities
AWS DevOps/Architect
- Work alongside application development teams to support the transition and operation of data-driven applications into AWS
- Deploying, managing and operating AWS environments with cross functional knowledge on other cloud environments (GCP, Azure & OCI)
- Ensuring that all AWS environments adhere to Experian security standards
- Identifying appropriate use of AWS operational best practices
- Estimating AWS costs and identifying operational cost control mechanisms
- Create technical documentation and keep it up to date
- Proactively keep up to date on AWS services and developments
- Automation of environment provisioning
- Lead data and application migration projects
- Improvement of resources and work on the resources which will designate costs required for the planning of governance, budgeting, and reporting
- Upgrading software, patching AWS resources and patching Linux & windows servers; managing the disaster recovery and creating the data backups
- Maintaining Data Integrity and access control by making use of the AWS application platform; effectively monitoring charging and cost optimization strategies
Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience provisioning, operating and maintaining systems running in AWS
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering discipline
- Strong verbal and written communication skills in English
- Strong analytical and software design skills
- Significant experience with application and data migrations into AWS
- Experience working within an Agile development framework
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Experience leveraging Cloud Formation, Terraform, Terragrunt to provision AWS infrastructure as code
- Deployment experience using common AWS technologies like Control Tower, VPC, EC2, ASG, Route 53, Transit Gateway, Elastic Beanstalk, ECS, EFS, RDS, S3, Lambda, Cloudfront, Bedrock Docker and more
- Strong experience with CI/CD concepts and developer tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions or GitLab
- Experience with Kubernetes, AWS MSK & AWS RabbitMQ etc.
- Strong experience with automating day to day repeated activities using shell, python or Ansible
- 5+ year of experience and expertise with python
- Experience in architecting cloud environments, implementing security best practices and global standards
- Understanding Network topology
- Team Player with good leadership skills and flexible with working hours
- Ready to explore new technologies and conduct POC on new options
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