As a Senior Cloud Engineer, you will perform cloud and system administration while building, maintaining, and optimizing new and existing cloud-based systems. You will ensure the reliability, security, scalability, and performance of cloud environments, supporting business operations through effective infrastructure management and continuous improvement.
Company Profile:
Our client is an Australian-based, ASX listed company that has built workflow and automation software for mortgage brokers. It was developed by a top-producing mortgage broker, for mortgage brokers who want to write more business in less time and with less stress.
They are currently expanding their remote team in the Philippines and are looking for a skilled, driven, and motivated Senior Cloud Engineer to play a key role in their engineering team and contribute to the company's continued growth.
Take advantage of this exciting career opportunity to work on challenging and impactful projects where your contributions will be highly valued and visible. This role is ideal for someone seeking career growth, continuous skill development, and the opportunity to be part of a unique, first-to-market project.
Duties and Responsibilities:
•Propose automation/improvements and work with stakeholders to deliver win-win solutions
•Improve the capability and efficiency of the Cloud Engineering team and the company’s wider IT department
•Administer an existing Public Cloud environment – build, deploy and maintain servers (linux & windows) and services in AWS
•Manage Puppet controlled infrastructure
•Develop and build new cloud-based systems running in a Public Cloud
•Investigate new cloud technology releases for suitability to improve platform
•Prepare and maintain supporting documentation
•Lead the design and architecture of new cloud solutions, ensuring reliability, security, scalability and cost efficiency
•Support and maintain production systems, acting as escalation point for complex incidents and leading root cause analysis
•Drive security best practice and cost optimisation across the cloud environment
•Mentor and coach the Mid-level Cloud Engineer and other team members
Requirements
Must-have Skills/Qualification:
•Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering or related
•At least 5 years of experience as a cloud engineer or similar; responsible for the following:
•Experience with infrastructure as Code such as Cloudformation, Terraform, and Serverless
•Experience with scripting languages such as Bash and Linux shell scripts
•Automation experience, including familiarity with tools such as GitHub Actions and similar frameworks
•Familiarity with database technologies such as with AWS RDS and similar AWS-based database services
•Experience administering Web Servers such as nginx or apache
•Experience working in an Agile environment
•Strong problem-solving mindset, with an ability to propose solutions, collaborate and get buy in from stakeholders
•Self-motivated with ability to lead and coach others
•Demonstrated experience designing cloud architectures and leading technical initiatives from proposal through to delivery
•Assume responsibility for meeting project timelines
•Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (both oral and written) to build effective working relationships both internal and external to the organisation
•Adopt a thorough approach to developing and testing systems with a high level of attention to detail and quality
•Flexible approach to new challenges and implementing new ideas
•Ability to prioritize tasks and communicating issues for resolution
•Desire to learn new technologies and methods that can improve how we operate
•Initiative-driven, with a desire to take on greater responsibilities
Advantageous Skills/Experience:
•Experience with Jira
•Experience with calling AWS APIs
•Experience with the software development technologies, such as:
•Experience working with Continuous Integration Pipelines (e.g. Jenkins, Bamboo, AWS Code Pipeline)
Manila Recruitment is a full service recruitment consultancy providing executive, expert and technical recruitment support for the Filipino market. We are the leader in innovation for recruitment solutions in the Philippines since 2010. We were born from entrepreneurial roots, and carefully crafted into a full-service consultancy that delivers a suite of innovative headhunting and talent sourcing solutions. Our expertise is defined by an unparalleled understanding of the “big picture” business needs of our clients, and how recruitment solutions can only be tailored for optimum results when a holistic view is taken.
The Manila Recruitment difference is rooted in our passion to scour the globe for cutting-edge developments in recruitment science. We get genuinely excited by developments in social sourcing strategies, web 3.0 tools for headhunters and areas of innovation that can help us deliver the best client and candidate experiences. We identify and deliver the latest international recruitment strategies specifically adapted for headhunting talent within the Filipino market. Producing unrivalled access to perfectly matched, previously undiscoverable talent for our clients. The recipe is simple, innovation, international best practice, combined with local market knowledge, a candidate database of over 40,000 and growing, and of course our greatest asset – simply the best team of passive talent sourcing, end-to-end recruitment consultants in the Philippines!
