Senior Cloud Engineer - Manila

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Cloud Engineer

At OpsWerks we're looking for a Cloud Engineer to join our team.

Full-time · Manila

Your Role

  • As a Cloud Engineer, you will be overseeing the scope of our customers' systems and infrastructure, acting as an escalation point for complex issues.

  • You will manage and optimize our customers' cloud infrastructure, ensuring high availability, performance, and scalability across mission-critical environments.

  • You will design and implement innovative solutions for complex, business-critical challenges, driving continuous improvement and best practices.

  • You will collaborate closely with diverse software and engineering teams, providing technical expertise and strategic guidance to enhance workflows and platform efficiency.

  • You will lead troubleshooting efforts, providing expert analysis during emergency outages and working in tandem with customer teams to minimize downtime and impact.

  • You will conduct in-depth root cause analysis, identify systemic issues, and implement automated, resilient solutions, driving a shift toward self-healing infrastructure.

  • You will provide mentorship and support to cross-functional teams focusing on quality, performance, reliability, security, and compliance.

  • You will participate in a rotating schedule for 24×7 coverage, ensuring operational continuity and serving as a technical authority during critical incidents.

Your Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree or higher education

  • Minimum of 5 years experience working with the following:

    • Linux Systems Administration: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Ubuntu

    • Cloud Infrastructure: Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

    • Infrastructure-as-a-Code (IaC) tools: Hashicorp Terraform, Pulumi, AWS CloudFormation, Chef, Ansible, Puppet, or similar tools

    • Networking: TCP/IP, Firewalls (Security Groups, IPTables, ACLs), Load Balancing (ELB/ALBs, Citrix NetScalers, Kubernetes Ingress, NGINX or Envoy Reverse Proxy), Routing

    • Build and Release: Git/Github/Gitlab, Artifactory, CI/CD (Jenkins, TeamCity, AWS CodePipeline/CodeDeploy, Spinnaker, or similar tools), Java build tools such as Maven or Gradle

    • Containerization: Kubernetes, Docker, Hashicorp Nomad, EKS, ECS

    • Log and Monitoring: Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, Splunk, AWS CloudWatch, New Relic

  • Minimum 5 years of supporting Infrastructure in an Agile development environment

  • Proven proficiency in any of the following scripting languages: Bash, Python, or Go

  • Good grasp of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevOps culture and tooling

  • Must have at least one certification in any of the skills on key qualifications such as: Certified Kubernetes Administrator or Developer (CKA/CKAD), AWS Certified Practitioner, Solutions Architect, Developer, DevOps or Data Engineer, Google Cloud Engineer, Architect, Developer or DevOps Engineer

  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Plus Points

  • Knowledgeable in service mesh tools such as Istio and Consul

  • Experience with using SQL and NoSQL Databases like Oracle and Cassandra databases

  • Knowledgeable on Data Engineering platforms such as Apache Spark, Yarn, Hadoop, Iceberg, Trino, Jupyter Notebooks, Tableau, PowerBI

Your Team

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Our team is made up of individuals who are aligned with OpsWerks’ values. In the spirit of building a healthy community, which requires open and honest communication, here are our expectations for every one of us at OpsWerks:

  • To uphold OpsWerks’ Mission and Methods.

  • To know, believe, and execute each team’s mission plan.

  • Growing in the 4 awareness (self, others, surroundings, and situation).

  • To take ownership of your personal growth for the team’s well-being.

  • To never give up, to never give in… only giving your best.

Ready to start your awesome journey and be part of OpsWerks?