Cloud Engineer, Cloud (159310)

NCS is the leading technology services firm that operates across the Asia Pacific region in over 20 cities, providing consulting, digital services, technology solutions, and more.

We believe in harnessing the power of technology to achieve extraordinary things, creating lasting value and impact for our communities, partners, and people. Our diverse workforce of 12,000 has delivered large-scale, mission-critical, and multi-platform projects for governments and enterprises in Singapore and the APAC region.

We’re searching for a Cloud Engineer (Cloud Hosting) to be part of our diverse team of talents here at NCS!

If you believe in going above and beyond, want to exemplify the best, and wish to bring people and technology together like never before, then we would love to have a conversation with you!

Overview

This is a client facing / delivery role, working on cloud operations in the delivery team. You will execute daily cloud operations as well as cloud implementations in technical customer engagements including basic operations and administration, specific implementation projects and/or pilots in Cloud.

The ideal candidate will have experience in delivery roles and success in implementation discussions, hands-on experience with good client handling skills and good team player within the team. The candidate should also be able to provide solutions and technical expertise to fellow team members and in client accounts.

What we seek to accomplish together:

• Apply technical knowledge, hands-on and customer insights to operate and administer a cloud infrastructure.
• Ensure all configuration conforms to high levels of performance, security, scalability, maintainability, and appropriate reusability and reliability upon deployment, aligning to design documentation specifications
• Ability to codify or implement/deploy configurations with the principles of automation by default in new projects with proper documentations
• Ability to codify or maintain cloud systems in an automated fashion using tools like Ansible, CloudFormation, Terraform etc with proper documentation
• Collaborate with Cloud Solution Architects in providing technical expertise in cloud operations and administrations
• Participate in Cloud Migrations for VMs using tools like CloudEndure with more than 50 VMs migration or Databases would be preferred
• Collaborate with team members to engage clients in operational meetings, discussions, process betterment and contribute to optimisations for the client’s environment
• Maintain technical skills, certifications and knowledge of market trends and competitive insights; collaborate and share with the technical community specifically in the cloud space
• Ability to manage issues with proper resolution/documentation and SLAs is required for this role.
• Administration and troubleshooting of Unix Servers (Linux, Solaris, Ubuntu etc)
• Able to Install Unix OS and has good troubleshooting skills for Unix systems, knowledge in hardening and securing of Unix systems.
• Advanced level of Administration and OS clustering for High Availability.
• Audit, review, and implement IT security policies.
• Experience and knowledge in supporting SAN environment and storage space management.
• Performing upgrades and applying patches or firmware updates to the virtual infrastructure software or hardware.
   

A little bit about you:

• Bachelor’s degree with at least 5+ years of success in operational/administration and deployment/migration projects in Cloud and Unix System administration.
• Cloud hosting experience is a must have skill
• Ability to solve customer problems through cloud technologies.
• Experience in providing solutions to issues collaboratively, resolving conflicts and ensuring follow through with proper follow up and closure.
• Strong technical experience with cloud infrastructures, migrations, and technology management preferred
• AWS Solution Architect Associate Certification or any AWS speciality certification is required.
• Preferred Specialization in Cloud eg DevOps Certified Specialty, Database Specialty etc
• Subject matter expertise in cloud infrastructure solutions (i.e. Windows and Linux IaaS, Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation Networking, OSS) would be advantageous
• Knowledge of Containerization technologies eg EKS/AKS/GKE/K8s/OpenShift/Tanzu with CKA certification would be advantageous

As Asia’s leading technology services firm, NCS as part of the Singtel Group, aims to create sustainable value for all our stakeholders. We aspire to create the extraordinary, to impact millions of people every day, and to create a positive impact on our environment. Our sustainability strategy sets out the key Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) areas that aim to create the NCS impact for our clients, our people and our future.

We Grow our People, Value our Clients, and Create our Future.

We want to change the way we live and work for the better, to create new and sustainable business growth, and to foster an inclusive future for all.

You can find out more about our Group’s sustainability focus to guide how you can contribute to our objectives at Sustainability Reports.

About NCS Group

We believe in building a talent-led delivery model to enable our best people to lead, and to support them with the right structure, processes, and tools to ensure that our clients are delivered top quality services. Great work is never done alone, which is why we also believe in fostering a collaborative work environment where people with different expertise and talent can come together.

We’re here to make the extraordinary happen.

Find out more at ncs.co and our LinkedIn career site.

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