Hosting Platform Operations Engineer

Our strategic client has declared a Cloud First strategy and will be moving most of our workloads to the Cloud over the next few years. At the same time Core Data Lake and Data Hubs Program led by Data & Analytics Organization (D&A) is leveraging Cloud to transform BI and Analytics for the company, harmonizing various data types and allowing standard solutions tailored specifically for needs of specific Business Units.

As Operations Engineer you will be leveraging strong technical and management / soft skills to deliver Operational capabilities to meet internal D&A applications' business cases in a PaaS way. You will be responsible for designing and implementing E2E strategy for logging of infrastructure performance counters, various types of events and logs, ongoing monitoring, alerting and response automation, working together with D&A DevOps teams and D&A Platform Infrastructure/Network roles to drive automated responses to alerts. Core focus is on all Azure resource logs availability, Network, IaaS S/W logs availability (e.g. Apache Airflow tool) and capabilities to monitor and alert based on them. In work you include "automate everything" mindset while providing secure, performant, stable, cost effective and flexible technical "bricks" to applications.

• Producing utility Blueprints for Logging & Monitoring tools
• Staying on top of Logging & Monitoring industry best practices, suggesting them to the team (or piloting new capabilities), defining Best Practices and onboarding various application teams to Platform Best Practices and Available Capabilities
• Ensuring security compliance for Logging & Monitoring utility, working together with Security Engineer
• Developing automation scripts (PowerShell, Python, Azure Automation) to optimize cost & capacity / performance, drive compliance, or to understand overall Logging & Monitoring utility health
• Working with client Corporate & Application teams, Cloud Service Partners and other vendors to understand, verify, improve and fix as needed shared Logging & Monitoring capabilities to be leveraged across D&A applications. This includes L3 support for major capability incidents escalations for own scope (may happen outside of work hours or weekends) and "deep" Problem Management support (investigate and find permanent fixes where workaround is used on production system due to capability not working correctly).
• Ensuring compliance / Desired State Configuration on IaaS and PaaS parts of the solution; defining compliance requirements with D&A teams
• With time extending scope other capabilities like Orchestration, ETL Metadata Management, CI/CD, Dashboards, automated testing tools.

• Strong technical knowledge and demonstrated 1+ year experience in each of the following areas:
• Azure LogAnalytics, Azure Diagnostics, Metrics, Event Logs, Application Logs - ability to set up and query them (knowledge of Kusto Query Language)
• PowerShell and/or Linux environment and shell (bash) scripting
• Experience working with MS Azure Cloud Computing Platform & Services (different resources, offerings and tools) and ARM Templates
• Experience in Containers (Docker / Kubernetes) and their monitoring.
• Necessary technical skills (1 or more of each domain):
• ELK Stack (Elastic Search, Logstash & Kibana), or other tools enabling gathering and analysis of logs gathered from multiple sources
• Programming Languages: Python, Java, C++, PHP, Perl, Ruby
• Overall understanding of infrastructure and Platform components (network, servers), technical knowledge and experience in Hosting and related technologies (data center, cloud [IaaS, PaaS], computing, Windows, Linux, storage, backup, virtualization, etc.), have a passion for these domains, and can learn technologies quickly.
• Ability to quickly penetrate technology areas and ask appropriate and relevant technical questions.

• Experience in Apache Airflow development and/or operations/monitoring.
• Knowledge of PowerBI
• Experience in some infrastructure automation/configuration tool - Ansible, Chef, Puppet or similar - you know how those can help with large-scale, complex deployments.
• Stewardship experience to ensure services are compliant with relevant P&G policies (Security, Governance, etc.). Having a previous experience working on Information Security matters at an infrastructure platform level
• Basic Vendor Management Skills
• Qualifications (completed, or to be built on the role):
• ITIL foundations knowledge; or demonstrated IT operations background
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate

• Competitive salary
• Luxoft Training Center
• Access to e-learning Library
• Individual development plans
• Long-term cooperation with possibility to gain experience in different projects and technologies
• A significant number of professional communities (Agile Community, Tech Community, Business Analysis Community, etc.)

• Group Life Insurance
• Private healthcare insurance – LuxMed. Unlimited access to specialist consultations with Dental Care included
• Medical costs reimbursement for employees (up to certain amount per quarter)
• Travel Insurance
• Benefit Program - Cafeteria and Multisport Card

• Various communities (sport, recreation activities, trips, board games, cultural and educational activities)
• Discounts program for employees – BeLux (banking offer, car leasing offer and cafeteria program discount)
• Convenient locations in a modern offices with game rooms
• Multinational projects for clients all over the world