(Junior) Cloud Engineer

Permanent employee, Full-time · Kuopio, Espoo

Your mission
  • Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services – from concept and design, through deployment, operation, and refinement
  • Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning, and launch reviews
  • Maintain services once they go live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health as well as being a stakeholder in our observability stack’s design and technology choices
  • Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity
  • Practice sustainable incident response and blameless retrospectivesparticipate in the root cause & escalation management processes
Your profile
MUST HAVES
  • Real experience with Linux, through work or hobbies
  • Knowledge of infrastructure operations and knowledge of current cloud technologies, especially virtualization
  • Working experience with monitoring and observability tools
  • Experience in scripting with Python or Bash
  • Understanding the concept of running production container-based workloads
  • Understanding the concept of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Ansible, Chef, PuppetTerraform,  Bicep, etc. 
  • Understanding of networking, NAT, SSL and so forth
  • Experience working with PostgreSQL databases
  • Experience with virtual machine backup systems
NICE TO HAVE
  • Experience setting up and operating 24/7 alerting for production workloads
  • Adaptability to explore Infrastructure subjects from scratch and create PoC
  • Experience with VMware vSphere and VMware NSX to manage virtual machines, virtual networks, and virtual storage
  • Experience with Veeam Backup & Replication
  • Experience with orchestration tools like ArgoCD
  • Exposure to Java Virtual Machine, especially understanding how JVM handles memory
  • Enthusiasm for building platform agnostic open source based systems
What we are not looking for
  • DevOps Engineer used to work only as part of dev team who has a lot of knowledge with building pipelines etc., but less about infrastructures and their troubleshooting
  • Someone with deep AWS knowledge or Azure knowledge and zero knowledge of open source systems
  • Someone not able or willing to work with partners and customers when the need arises
Why us?
At Matrix42 we empower our product squads to solve hard problems – customer problems and business problems – in such a way that our customers love to work with our products. Our product squads are cross-functional and durable, generally composed of a product manager, a product designer, and several qualified engineers. 
 
As a Cloud Engineer you treat operations as if it’s a software problem. Our mission in this department is to protect our cloud products with an ever-watchful eye on their availability, latency, performance, and capacity. We ensure that Matrix42’s services – for our internally critical and our externally-visible systems – have reliability, uptime appropriate to users' needs and a fast rate of improvement. Our cloud organization consists of multiple Operations teams mainly in Finland, Germany and Romania and a cross-european cloud development team focusing on the efficient automatization of our cloud platform and observability tools. 
 
Our Cloud Engineers can manage complex challenges of scale, while using your expertise in coding, algorithms, complexity analysis and large-scale system design. 
Our Benefits
We could tell you all about the free fruit and drinks in the office, that you will have flexible working hours, 30 days of vacation or that remote work is part of everyday life.
But in our eyes, that's not a benefit, it's standard. Here are some of our benefit offers:
  • Learning & Development Opportunities
     - Up to 6 additional days off for professional and personal development
     - Log into our online platforms to expand your knowledge or improve your language skills
  • Country specific Benefits like for example: one Social Day for you to assist in social settings or attend events which help improve our environment
  • The possibility to choose an additional benefit that works for you 
  • And many more.. ask us about it!
Your contact person
Send us your application, including your salary requirements and earliest possible starting date, directly through our online portal via the "APPLY NOW" button. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Diane Djongoue.
 
We ask for your understanding that MATRIX42 can only accept applications online via the applicant portal in connection with our applicant management system due to the currently valid EU data protection regulations. 
About us
Our ambition is to be the European choice in service management! 

 By using our platform, customers can manage IT and business processes, assets, endpoints, and identities for improved productivity, agility, security, and employee experience. By enabling digital working environments and IT self-service through holistic integration and automated processes, we digitalize and automate our customers' everyday tasks. Join our diverse team of 600 professionals spread across Europe.

Our culture is built on strong values (We love customers, Make it happen, Better every day, With respect), with customer success as our top priority. We support your personal and professional growth, helping you reach your full potential through personalized goals. Join us on a journey where you can thrive in both your career and life.
Please fill out the application form and attach your resume incl. relevant documents such as study/work certificates and/or projects. Optionally, you can attach a motivational letter, too.
In case you experience any difficulties with your application, please send your application to career@matrix42.com.
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