Cloud Platform Engineer

Job summary

ECMWF is seeking a Cloud Platform Engineer to work on platform engineering and observability for application deployments in the Destination Earth Data Bridges.

Qualifications

• Knowledge in programming or scripting (Python, Ruby, Perl, Go)
• Experience with Cloud Native and Containers (Kubernetes, Helm, Docker)
• Familiarity with Cloud IaaS (OpenStack or similar)
• Understanding of Kubernetes application patterns and Cloud Native architectures
• Experience with automation tools (Terraform, Ansible or similar)
• Linux system administration skills
• Knowledge of observability, monitoring, logging, and analytics
• Experience with DevOps practices (CI/CD, automation pipelines)
• Understanding of server, storage, and networking components of Cloud applications
• Desirable knowledge of tools like Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK
• Familiarity with Application Performance Monitoring and databases (MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL)

Responsibilities

• Deliver and support a container orchestration infrastructure in multiple DestinE Data Bridges
• Automate deployment of software to Destination Earth containers, VMs, or bare metal
• Develop observability capabilities for Destination Earth services
• Implement systems to monitor performance of Data Bridges PaaS/IaaS
• Contribute to design and implementation of observability and event collection
• Advocate for reliability engineering within Destination Earth
• Participate in regular 24-hour on-call rotas for critical systems

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