IT Lead - Cloud Operations
About us:
Eka Software Solutions is the No. 1 Commodity Management Platform in the world. Eka is the global leader in providing digital commodity management solutions driven by Cloud, Blockchain, Machine Learning, and Analytics. The company's best-of-breed solutions serve the entire trading value chain across agriculture, energy, metals, mining, and manufacturing markets. Eka's platform-driven solutions are embedded with commodity-specific algorithms that empower businesses to stay on top of volatile markets by letting them scale at will, go live faster, and achieve better value for their investments. Eka has offices across the Americas, Asia, Australia, and EMEA serving 100+ customers globally across multiple commodity segments. Read more about Eka at
www.eka1.com
Title:
IT Lead - Cloud Operations
Responsibilities:
Collaborating within a project team to solve complex problems and evangelizing the Cloud across development and IT.
Responsible for the development of architecture blueprints for increased cloud adoption and recommendations on Cloud architecture strategies, processes, and methodologies.
Design Native Cloud Application Architectures or optimize applications for AWS.
Involved in design and implementation of best-fit solutions with respect to multi-cloud ecosystems and deep understanding of AWS components; well-versed with the AWS well-architected framework and can apply those principles while designing a solution.
Good understanding of AWS network and security engineering principles; improve resiliency for all cloud applications and infrastructure, ensuring that HA, DR, and Data Protection requirements are appropriately engineered and implemented for each workload.
Use configuration management, orchestration, and management tooling to ensure cloud environments meet operational and security standards; possess good communication skills with the ability to work with fluid requirements and shape them in collaboration with other team members.
Develop a detailed understanding of our cloud infrastructure systems and propose and implement cloud standards and architectural usage patterns.
Continually enhance automation of environment architecture/deployments, taking full advantage of cloud agility utilizing IAC tools and CICD tools (git-ops).
Develop a Containers/Kubernetes strategy and evangelize the usage across the company while improving the security posture of our infrastructure with the right monitoring and logging.
Work with our engineering teams to troubleshoot issues, provide guidance, and enable them to work with our infrastructure and platforms; lead the implementation of complex projects and initiatives that have companywide scope and create architectural artifacts for products and key technology initiatives with a focus on Cloud security.
Experience and desire to work in a Global delivery environment and ability to work in a team environment with client interfacing skills.
Qualifications:
Bachelor/Master's degree in either Computer Engineering or Information Science.
Experience with assessment, development, implementation, optimization, and documentation of a comprehensive and broad set of security technologies within OnPrem, SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, and other cloud environments.
Security and cloud certifications must include AWS, Azure, GCP, and CCSP cloud certifications.
Experience in multi-cloud security architecture, design, and implementation for regulated industries; design and implement AWS architectures and environments; excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
Understanding of Oracle-based database and application-database integrations.
In-depth knowledge of AWS services including VPC, RDS, IAM, EC2, EKS, CloudWatch, S3, RDS, Route53, etc.
Experience designing and building CI/CD pipelines with tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, and Kubernetes toolset.
Experience with hosted services in a high-volume enterprise environment and knowledge developing/working with Linux Operating Systems.
Change Management and Patch Management with real-time experience with patching tools like Manage Engine, WSUS Server, and AWS Patch Manager.
Experience with tools for configuring and taking backups for Azure and AWS.
Managing and administering antivirus solutions like McAfee and TrendMicro in Azure and AWS cloud; working with the security team to analyze and fix CVE reports.
Understanding of OWASP Top 10 and CWE 25, with a proven track record and experience in implementing and integrating remediation strategies.
Excellent understanding of web applications, web servers, layer 7 application technologies, frameworks, and protocols with respect to application development and deployment.
Understanding of cloud-native and cloud-based security solutions, and the ability to integrate these solutions into cloud security architectures; familiarity with Zero Trust security models and principles, and experience implementing Zero Trust policies in cloud environments.
Proven experience with public cloud platforms such as Azure, GCP, or AWS with experience in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Policy as Code (PaC) principles and tools; ability to design and implement secure and compliant infrastructure using these tools.
Adhere to prevailing Eka's ISMS policies and procedures while delivering the duties.
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