Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

ion. This team owns our Cloud Experience for UKG while building mature applications and services to enable Product Development teams through an in-house self-service portal.

About The Role:
UKG is looking for a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to help build new and maintain existing capabilities in our public and private on-premises and Cloud platforms. You will use building blocks, Go language, Terraform, Ansible, and work with on-premise infrastructure OpenStack and Cloud services in Google Cloud Platform (GCP). You'll be the subject matter expert in Kubernetes capabilities and collaborate with Operations and Reliability Engineering to guide teams in owning support while providing last mile support. You'll offer one or more of these services: Kubernetes, MongoDB, MongoDB Atlas, MySQL, Elasticsearch, Redis, RabbitMQ, and PostgreSQL. You will use Agile practices (Scrum and Kanban) to work with other engineers day-by-day and join daily standup meetings to share and understand where your team stands.

In support of our culture, we have adopted a hybrid working model of 3 days per week in the office and the rest of the week from home. The UKG office that this position is based out of is Montevideo, Uruguay.

Job Responsibilities:
• Manage, improve, and maintain our tools and services stack across the organization and deliver value incrementally.
• Collaborate with Development and Engineering teams to understand gaps and requirements while meeting expectations.
• Architect, design, and implement solutions for internal self-service offering technical architecture diagrams and user guides for internal administrators, operators, and users.
• Join team meetings daily and as needed and collaborate with peers and teams within the organization.
• Troubleshoot issues by reviewing information at hand, develop detailed implementation plan with automation and test details, and mentoring team members.
• Be on a rotational on-call schedule with the team.
• Perform other duties as assigned by a supervisor/manager or team lead depending on severity and business needs.

Qualifications
About You:
Basic Qualifications:
•   Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related filed, however equivalent work experience in similar position may be substituted for educational requirements.
•   3+ years of experience building and/or configuring Cloud infrastructure and services (on-prem or public) through code, such as Terraform.
•   3+ years of experience with Cloud Native solutions (Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, and/or Azure).
•   3+ years of experience with at least one programming language (e.g. Java/Golang/Ruby/Python).
•   Experience working with container technologies (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes).
•   Experience with Infrastructure test automation.

Preferred Qualifications:
•   Experience developing, deploying, and maintaining highly available services at scale.
•   Experience in Agile delivery and Scrum/Kanban frameworks.
•   Experience with web technologies utilizing Microservices, SOA patterns and REST.
•   Experience working with container technologies (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes).
•   Experience with databases such as MySQL, NoSQL (MongoDB, Atlas), Elastic search.
•   Experience with Redis and Message Queue (RabbitMQ, etc).
•   Experience with one or more distributed version control/Source Code Management (SCM) technology and its workflows like git and the understanding of the GitOps/DevOps mindset.

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