Senior Systems Engineer - AWS (Manila, Philippines, National Capital Region (NCR))

The Position

Join our Global IT organization as a Cloud DevOps Engineer.

The Cloud Foundations product provides a suite of secure, well-governed global cloud services. It delivers standards, best practices, and well-architected cloud solutions that support the development and operation of both new and existing Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and serverless computing environments.

Built on agile methodologies, the product enables digital products and use cases by providing scalable, reliable, and modern cloud capabilities across the organization.

Duties & Responsibilities:

As a member of Cloud Foundation DevOps, the Cloud DevOps Engineer responsibilities are as follows:

Developing and implementing Boehringer standard solutions using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation) in an organizational level e.g. network, patching, backup, policies, access, etc.

Managing existing and upgrading/migrating legacy Infrastructure as Code stacks.

Responding to cloud environment issues and monitoring alerts (ex. portal access, security findings, etc.)

Assisting users with access-related issues and requests using tools to ensure adherence to security best practices including MFA, key management, etc.

Ensuring the overall health of all Cloud environments with regards to patching, anti-virus, backups, performance thresholds, etc...

Assisting the users with any Day2 troubleshooting issues.

Ensuring on-going configuration management health.

Migrating to new releases of Terraform, Bitbucket, etc.

Creating and maintaining Runbook and other support documentation.

Adhere to ITIL processes (change, problem, configure, incident management).

Apply agile methodology and the Scrum framework while working closely with the product development team and the product owner

Requirements:

To be successful in this role, you should have:

Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Cloud based hands on experience in AWS

Strong working experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) especially working with Terraforms and AWS Cloud Formation

Solid knowledge and understanding of the software development lifecycle utilizing the DevOps framework around CI/CD.

Very good understanding and experience in networking and security knowledge, such as routing, firewall, VPN, TCP/IP, VPC, SG, Anti-virus, security risk remediation etc.

Mandatory Skills:

Good track record of hands-on working experience with AWS services.

Experience supporting  production Cloud work loads using native and 3rd party tools.

Good interpersonal skills especially with a diverse and global user base.

Good knowledge of CI/CD tools, processes, and procedures (e.g. Jenkins)

Good knowledge of code and binary repositories (e.g. GitHub or BitBucket)

Good knowledge of Terraform or equivalent provisioning and automation tooling for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure

Some knowledge of Automation and Configuration Management toolsets (e.g. Ansible)

Hands on experience in scripting skills like PowerShell, Ruby, Python, or Bash

Hands on experience and good working knowledge with Infrastructure as Code concepts

Strong command of English language (both verbal and written)

Additional Comments:

Talented and ambitious `individual who thrives on innovation, learning and problem solving

Strong customer and service orientation

Be able to work in a global diverse environment

Team oriented especially working in an Agile team setting

Able to effectively collaborate, openly communicate and reach across functional borders

Willingness to work also outside business hours.