Desired Skills and Experience
- Automate the operation and management of the cloud infrastructure for the digital editions application and various Enterprise applications.
- Be a technical subject matter expert for the CNI application teams for cloud infrastructure.
- Manage technical queries by third party partners and internal teams.
- Configuration and management of CI and CD environments and tools.
- Provide application developers secure platforms to manage credentials and configuration options.
- Support application developers in debugging and architecting solutions on a cloud environment.
- Effective monitoring and logging of applications.
- Provide and maintain a secure platform for CNI to deploy and run its applications.
- Communicates the solution design to the system integrators with sufficient detail to allow them to deliver the solution as specified.
- Works closely with third party vendors and suppliers, overseeing development and maintenance tasks and ensuring solutions meet the required specification and meet the required quality, performance and security standards.
- Work with the security manager to deliver a compliant platform for CNI to base its applications off.
- Create solution documentation, required to release and support the product.
- Work closely with the Support Manager to ensure a smooth transition into production.
- Proven experience of using Amazon Web Services (AWS) including AWS services/products such as EC2, S3, CloudFormation, CloudFront, Elastic Load Balancing, RDS, CloudWatch and overall account structure / security.
- Good general technical understanding across digital and enterprise applications and infrastructure. Familiarity with the following technologies: AWS, NoSQL and SQL databases
- Experience in using configuration management tools such as Ansible and Chef
- Experience of using infrastructure as code tools like CloudFormation and Terraform
- Experience with relational database systems (MySQL and Postgres)
- Working knowledge of Elasticsearch with Logstash or Fluentd.
- Experience with Docker, and knowledge or experience of container orchestration tools such as AWS ECS and Kubernetes.
- Experience at debugging multi-tier architecture systems using the relevant tools, such as APM and RUM
- Strong Linux system administration skills (Ubuntu and CoreOS Container Linux)
- Ability to script in bash and at least one high level language (Ruby, Python etc)
- Knowledge of security frameworks to produce secure platforms for protected data ready for GDPR and other global requirements.
- Knowledge of security products like WAF and IDS to provide cover to web based applications with data needing to be secure
- Excellent understanding of TCP/IP networking
- Excellent understanding of HTTP(S) as a protocol, and also optimization and security best practices for web applications.
- Experience working in an Agile environment
- Great written and verbal communication skills.â¯
- Ability to speakâ¯a second â¯language â¯would â¯be highly advantageous.â¯
- Experience of working within the publishing, media, or advertising sector.