Cloud Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Avature is a flexible product and building it requires using a variety of tools with an adaptable approach. Cloud Engineers are fundamental in that process, as they provide the tools and environments used throughout the development cycle. Core Infrastructure works closely with our Networking team to maintain data centers that provide on-premise cloud infrastructure used by Avature teams.

Collaborating with teams from several engineering specializations, you'll be in direct contact with the variety of operating systems, cloud technologies, and DevOps methodologies we use through the entire development pipeline, ensuring smooth operations all the way.

Your challenges and objectives
- Understand Avature's infrastructure and processes.
- Build, deploy, and configure on-prem and cloud-based infrastructure resources in production and development environments.
- Perform troubleshooting on ongoing incidents, ensuring quick and reliable responses to monitoring events.
- Interact and collaborate with colleagues from all around the globe.
- Hold ownership and accountability over our Linux-based infrastructure, on premise and in the cloud.
- Your day-to-day activities
- Configure and maintain on-premise infrastructure in our data centers.
- Participate in defining standards with a DevOps/SRE mindset and promote them.
- Ensure resilience and continuity on running systems with quick response to outages.
- Design and automate complex operations to scale in distributed datacenters around the world.
- Stay up-to-date on new functionalities, best practices, and ways to implement solutions in a variety of open source software stacks.
- Provide guidance and support to operations teams, contributing on the maintenance and administration of the platform at the OS level (kernel and storage).
- About you
- Solid Linux system administration experience and knowledge.
- Superior analytical/troubleshooting skills.
- Background on managing cloud-based platforms.
- Understanding of security mechanisms for operating systems and cloud services.
- Cloud administration and containerization experience with technologies such as AWS, Docker, and OpenStack.
- Knowledge of automation: configuration management (e.g. Puppet), observability.
- Infrastructure-as-code knowledge (e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation) is a plus.
- Bash coding skills.
- Software development skills (e.g. Python) are a plus.

About Us
- We’re a market leader enterprise that makes its own product: A highly flexible enterprise SaaS platform used for global talent acquisition and talent management. We currently work with over 650 companies worldwide.We choose to work in a relaxed, energetic and creative environment, where everyone can make the most of their skills and preferences, and boost their individual capabilities through collaboration and team work.- Due to COVID 19, all Avaturians are working from home for the moment. More information will be provided during the interview process._

We Offer
- A fast-paced, energetic, and engaging environment.
- Flexible hours.
- Four salary reviews per year.
- Option to earn 20% of your salary in US dollars.
- Three weeks vacations from the first year.
- Four weeks paternity leave.
- OSDE 310 health coverage (family plan).
- Four days a year to attend events related to professional development.
- Internet service expenses.
- An office located in a centric and attractive location (Palermo).
- Fully equipped kitchen, pastries every Monday, fruits and cereals every day.
- Access to rotational parking space.
- An organizational culture that empowers everyone to be themselves is key to thrive in business, but more importantly, it’s a pathway for creating a more equal society. Avature fosters a diverse and inclusive environment, and celebrates that each unique person brings something different to our team. We are committed to considering all qualified applicants equally and to promote equal opportunities within our organization._