Senior Cloud Operations Engineer

At Hitachi Energy our purpose is advancing a sustainable​ energy future for all. We bring power to our homes, schools, hospitals and factories. Join us and work with fantastic people, while learning and developing yourself on projects that have a real impact to our communities and society. Bring your passion, bring your energy, and be part of a global team that appreciates a simple truth: Diversity + Collaboration = Great Innovation

The Cloud Services Senior Cloud Operations Engineer objective is to ensure seamless deployment, availability and functionality of Hitachi Energy Enterprise Software Applications for our Clients through:

• Software deployments and application upgrades using specialized tools and automations
• Ongoing support and maintenance of applications related infrastructure hosted both on Cloud (Azure) and physical datacenters

• Continually improve processes for timely and cost-effective creation and maintenance of new tenants for customer use, and deploy applications to customer tenants
• Implement and/or enhance a standard and centralized strategic monitoring solution eliminating multiple monitoring sources and processes
• Deliver high availability auto scaling containerised deployments in Azure/AWS
• Document application support best practices and processes as per templated laid out by the Infrastructure Operations team
• Provide effective application and infrastructure support to ensure Service Level Agreements are met
• Drive collaboration between Infrastructure Operations with the Product Development DevOps team in order to define and continually improve deployment and upgrade processes

• Minimum of 5+ years of relevant work experience in an industrial software or operations-focused environment, supporting business critical applications spanning multiple geographies, industries and domain.
• Extensive experience with a DevOps team involved with implementing software deployments in Azure or AWS
• Demonstrable experience delivering high availability auto scaling containerised deployments in AWS or Azure
• In depth understanding of continuous integration, continuous delivery, software configuration management, version control and release management
• Proven work experience with Azure DevOps, Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with network engineering and/or collaborating with network engineering teams and demonstrable experience with load balancing infrastructure ( like haproxy) for cloud and data center environments
• Advanced knowledge of best practices related to data encryption and cybersecurity.
• Good knowledge and hands on experience of Database technologies such as Postgres
• Good knowledge and hands on experience of Windows and Linux based operating systems
• Ability to perform complex application and infrastructure debugging and work with various teams to identify root causes and come up with innovative solutions
• Strong inter-personal and communication skills, ability to work with different teams within the organization and with partners, vendors and customers outside the organization.