Cloud Engineer

About Trafilea

Trafilea is a dynamic and innovative Tech E-commerce Group that operates multiple direct-to-consumer brands in the intimate apparel and beauty sectors, with a focus on using data-driven strategies to scale their businesses. In addition to our products, we have our own online community dedicated to promoting body positivity. As a rapidly growing global player, Trafilea is committed to creating high-quality products and services that enhance the customer experience and drive long-term growth.

IT @ Trafilea: Work across multiple brands, leverage data-driven strategies, and drive rapid growth in a dynamic remote work environment. We have 3 business lines with brands based on digital marketing & growth strategies.

Our intimate apparel Brands: Shapermint, Truekind, and Shapermint Essentials,

Our beauty Brands: Revel Beauty and Spa Dr.

Our content and subscription Brand: The BodCon. The mission of a Cloud Engineer is to design, implement, and maintain scalable, secure, and efficient cloud infrastructure and services that support the organization's digital transformation initiatives. They are responsible for leveraging cloud technologies and best practices to enable the seamless deployment, management, and optimization of applications and systems in the cloud.

Expected Outcomes & Responsibilities

Cloud Infrastructure Design and Architecture:

• Design scalable and reliable cloud architectures that meet business requirements.

• Develop and document cloud infrastructure design patterns and best practices.

• Ensure security, compliance, and resilience in cloud infrastructure designs.

Cloud Deployment and Management:

• Deploy and configure cloud resources using infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools.

• Manage and maintain cloud environments, including virtual machines, containers, and serverless platforms.

• Implement automation and orchestration to streamline cloud deployment processes.

Cloud Security and Compliance:

• Implement robust security measures within the cloud environment, including access controls, encryption, and monitoring.

• Collaborate with security teams to ensure compliance with industry regulations and internal policies.

• Conduct regular security assessments and vulnerability scanning of cloud infrastructure.

Cloud Optimization and Performance:

• Optimize cloud infrastructure for cost-efficiency, scalability, and performance.

• Monitor and analyze cloud resource utilization, identify bottlenecks, and recommend optimization strategies.

• Implement auto-scaling, load balancing, and caching mechanisms to enhance application performance.

Incident Response and Troubleshooting:

• Respond to and resolve cloud-related incidents, such as infrastructure failures, performance issues, and security breaches.

• Conduct root cause analysis for incidents and implement preventive measures.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to troubleshoot and resolve cloud-related issues.

Collaboration and Communication:

• Collaborate with development, operations, and other teams to integrate cloud resources into the overall architecture.

• Communicate effectively with stakeholders to gather requirements, provide updates, and address concerns.

• Share knowledge, best practices, and documentation with the team to foster continuous learning.

Research and Innovation:

• Stay updated on emerging cloud technologies, trends, and best practices.

• Evaluate new cloud services and tools to enhance the organization's cloud infrastructure.

• Proactively propose innovative solutions to improve cloud processes, security, and performance

Experience/ Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering or related field.

• Knowledge of network layers protocols (IP, TCP, DNS, TLS, HTTP).

• Vast experience in Unix based (Linux) operating systems.

• Experience with containers and cluster management tools (Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker Swarm, Docker).

• Excellent documentation and verbal+written communication skills in English.

• Experience with IaaS cloud providers, AWS is a must (GCP, Azure).

• Experience with Terraform IaC language.

• Experience with monitoring platforms such as Datadog, Prometheus, New Relic.

• Experience automating repetitive operational tasks (Python, shell, Node).

• Must have expertise in at least one development language, such as Python or other.

• Experience managing database engines such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB.

• Deep, hands-on experience with foundational infrastructure capabilities, including HA, DR, Network, Routing, Firewall, DNS, Storage, DB, Linux Administration and configuration management.

• Experience developing Ansible, Puppet or Salt.

What We Have to Offer:

• Proximity doesn’t influence productivity. As a globally distributed team, you can live and work wherever you want.

• A rich experience including the opportunity to collaborate with world-class talents. Encouraging transparency and open communication to all.

• A data-driven, dynamic, energetic work environment, full of talented, goal-oriented, and empathetic people working together to grow and develop both as professionals and human beings.

• A safe space to be who you truly are. We embrace and support diversity, equity and work hard every day to keep becoming more inclusive. 

• Openness to new ideas and initiatives: You can always join a squad, tribe, or committee, start new ones. Bring your hobbies and passions and transform them into projects!

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