Assistant Manager Cloud Engineering

Job description

MAIN JOB PURPOSE:

As part of the Unilever Tech 2.0 platform based strategy where we focus on our key business
priorities, work with fewer, strategic vendors, insource more technical expertise and upskill our people.

This role forms part of the Consumer Performance Platform, building a technology platform that will create a holistic view of our consumer, covering an increasing number of consumer data sources globally. Additionally, the platform will contain all our Digital Assets, Recipes and Product Information

As a result,...
· We will KNOW our consumer and products so that our consumers interact through an experience that aligns to their preferences and interests which, in turn, gives us better relationships with our customers than our competitors
· We will EMPOWER our consumer so that they have access to content that will encourage them to be brand advocates which gives us the ability to increase our reach and sales

JOB SUMMARY

The main accountability of this role is to define and deliver the infrastructure that forms part of the Consumer Performance programme.

Infrastructure
· Manage the provision and management of the infrastructure required to deliver the high-volume, low-latency applications for key marketing systems, delivering high-availability and performance as part of a growing and evolving DevOps team.
· Delivery of Infrastructure as code solutions delivering a repeatable secure capability when required to support demand.
· Delivering infrastructure to meet demand, service levels and maintaining associated costs.
· Accountable for backup and recovery processes for all infrastructure to support the platform.
· Contributing to all phases of the development lifecycle.
· Ensure designs deliver against specifications
· Deep dive into the software stack to troubleshoot and resolve issues related to application development, deployment and operations
· Performance tuning, monitoring, maintaining fault tolerant/HA infrastructure to deliver highly scalable services
· Key support and contribution to the end-to-end ownership of the platforms
· Proactive monitoring of systems
· Aligning to DevOps principles and end-to-end ownership, all members of the Consumer Performance team may be involved in resolving incidents / technical issues outside of normal working hours, while this is rare all members of the team may be required to be available as part of resolution and be on an On Call Rota.
· Contribute to evolving toolsets, simplification of software development lifecycle and drive towards efficient automation.
· Participation in project scoping, requirements reviews, and technical discovery efforts.

KEY REQUIREMENTS

· Experience of delivering and managing Cloud Based Infrastructure. (Including Infrastructure as Code)
· Cloud Technologies (Amazon AWS)
· Educational Qualification: B.E./B.Tech./MCA/M. Tech
· Experience of full software development lifecycle experience using Agile / DevOps concepts.
· Strong Linux/Amazon/CentOS/ Ubuntu system administration skills (patching, configuration, etc.)
· A commitment to delivering releases on schedule.
· Dedication to a collaborative working style and the ability to work well in small teams, both onshore and offshore.
· Experience with building zero-downtime deployment solutions in cloud environments
· Thrive on solving problems.Experience of Test Driven development.
· Automation (Chef, Cloud Formation, Puppet)