Senior Cloud Platform Engineer (Core, Azure)

Senior Cloud Platform Engineer (Core, Azure), AlphaSense Oy, Itämerenkatu 3b, Helsinki

About AlphaSense

AlphaSense is a market intelligence platform used by the world’s leading companies and financial institutions. Since 2011, our AI-based technology has helped professionals make smarter business decisions by delivering insights from an extensive universe of public and private content – including company filings, event transcripts, news, trade journals, and equity research. Our platform is trusted by over 3,500 enterprise customers, including a majority of the S&P 500. Headquartered in New York City, AlphaSense employs over 1,200 people across offices in the U.S., U.K., Finland, India, and Singapore. For more information, please visit www.alpha-sense.com.

The Role

We seek a highly motivated and experienced Cloud Platform Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for building a world-class Kubernetes platform that is supposed to run across main public clouds – Azure, AWS, and GCP.

This is an opportunity to use the latest cloud-native technologies and grow your multi-cloud skills in a company that stays at the leading edge of AI innovation.

As a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer, you will be a driving force in discovering and leveraging new opportunities to develop cloud-based infrastructures. Your work will directly support our teams’ dynamic requirements and contribute to the enhancement of our skills in DevSecOps.

Requirements:

7+ years of Experience in designing, operating, and troubleshooting solutions in the public cloud (Azure Preferred)
5+ Years of experience in Kubernetes, Docker, and CNCF ecosystems.
Proven experience operating Kubernetes clusters with lifecycle management tools (e.g. Rancher, Anthos, CAPI, or Crossplane). Design and implementation of cluster lifecycle management platforms is a plus
In-depth understanding and hands-on experience with Kubernetes components, including API server, CNIs, scheduler, controllers, etc
Solid understanding of networking, Linux, container orchestration, storage systems, cloud services, security protocols, and system monitoring tools
Experience with certificate and secret management, CSI provisioners, and vertical and horizontal auto-scaling in Kubernetes clusters.
Ample experience in building highly automated cloud infrastructures with immutable infrastructure and IaC principles (using e.g., Terraform, Pulumi, Crossplane, etc)
Experience with scripting in Shell or Python. Good proficiency in at least one programming language – Java/Python/Golang is a plus.
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS) is a plus (but we prefer proven experience)

Nice to have:

Experience with ArgoCD and GitOps methodologies
Experience with Hashicorp vault or other secret management tool

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