Cloud Engineer

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. Additionally, as a bridge between our infrastructure and development teams, they are key to enable collaboration towards common goals in our Engineering area. For this particular position, you will focus on designing, deploying, configuring, and maintaining a wide range of environments based on technologies like Kubernetes, Docker, Openstack, AWS, Puppet and much more.
Your challenges and objectives
- Provide the framework and templates on which development teams can deploy and run services, coding configuration management and infrastructure recipes.
- Evolve and maintain environments managed by the Cloud Services organization.
- Participate in defining standards with a DevOps/SRE mindset and promote them.
- Design and automate complex operations to scale in distributed datacenters around the world.
- Enable developers to take ownership of their code and be accountable for its operability.

Your day-to-day activities
- Provide development teams the right tool for each technical challenge and promote best practices in deployments and infrastructure management.
- Cooperate with operations teams in order to automate common manual tasks.
- Stay up-to-date on new functionalities, best practices and ways to implement solutions in a variety of open source software stacks.
- Perform code reviews, technical analysis of existing code, and refactors to improve infrastructure code quality.
- Provide guidance and support to operations teams, contributing on the maintenance and administration of the platform at the OS level.

About you
- Advanced Linux administration knowledge.
- Superior analytical/troubleshooting skills.
- Knowledge of automation: configuration management (e.g. Puppet), observability, Bash.
- Infrastructure-as-code knowledge (e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation) is a plus.
- Software development skills (e.g. Python) are a plus.
- Cloud administration and containerization experience with technologies such as AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, and OpenStack are a big plus.
- Knowledge (or willingness to learn) infrastructure management technologies (Packer, Terraform, LXD, KVM, etc.)

About us
Avature is a market leading enterprise SaaS Solution provider for global talent acquisition and talent management. We have a strong commitment to high quality engineering and customer service and are recognized innovators in the very large company market. We currently work with over 650 companies worldwide, including 110 of the Fortune 500, all of the Big Four consulting firms, the largest banks and manufacturers in the world, and five governments.
We design, build, implement, and support our product ourselves. With 26 releases a year and a strong commitment to innovation and quality engineering, our private cloud platform has become the product choice for the very large global organization.
At Avature, we value opportunities to learn and grow within a dynamic, creative, and collaborative environment. We encourage autonomy and empower our people to approach challenges innovatively while bringing their unique perspective to the table. We offer a career development program that supports continuous learning and thoughtful leadership, and that meaningfully impacts each individual’s professional trajectory.
What we offer
A fast-paced, energetic, and engaging environment.
Flexible hours.
Work remotely or come by the office as much as you want.
Four salary reviews per year.
Option to earn part 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.
End of year week off (December 26 to 31).
Internet service expenses.
Birthdays off.
An organizational culture that empowers everyone to be themselves is key to thrive in business, but more importantly, it is a pathway for creating a more equitable 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 promoting equal opportunities within our organization.