Principal Cloud Engineer - Qatar

Scope of Work:

Responsible for developing and continuously improving the cloud infrastructure for the organization. Play a vital role in launching several key initiatives. Work closely with skilled local operations experts to ensure the successful execution of high-impact projects. The ideal candidate should possess a strong understanding of Linux internals, networking fundamentals, algorithms, data structures, and object-oriented programming, all of which are essential for thriving in our multidisciplinary team.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Create, put into practice, and use cloud-native solutions
• Establish clear, specific criteria with key stakeholders
• Schedule and prioritize activities in accordance with business needs
• Identify possible weak points in the infrastructure and systems and create effective mitigation plans
• Assist the security team in advancing strong standards
• Oversee the process of implementing solutions or services with an aim for minimal downtime
• Create and own scaling, capacity planning, configuration management, and monitoring of processes and procedures
• Ensure there is thorough monitoring coverage

Required Skills and Experience :

• 8+ years of industry experience and significant Google Cloud Platform (GCP) knowledge

• Experience with Linux and software development

• Experience with cloud native application design and development using APIs, containers, Kubernetes, service mesh (Istio), preferably on Google Cloud Platform

• Practical knowledge of containerization and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes

• Proficient in Git and Bash

• Ability to do standard Linux system administration tasks with ease, such as mounting and formatting disks, checking resource usage, monitoring and debugging processes, setting up cron jobs, building Systemd units and timers, etc.

• Proficient in writing in at least one of the following: Python, Golang, PHP, or Typescript.

• Proven expertise throughout the full stack in troubleshooting and debugging web apps (i.e. the application layer, the database layer, the network layer, the OS)

• Active Google Certification, Google Cloud Developer or Google Cloud Engineer