Cloud Engineer (R-17213)

Why We Work at Dun & Bradstreet

Dun & Bradstreet combines global data and local expertise to help clients make smarter decisions. With 6,000+ people in 31 countries, we are a team of diverse thinkers and problem solvers who all share a common curiosity: to find new ways to turn data into value. If you share this curiosity and want to be part of a future-ready company, come join us! Learn more at dnb.com/careers.

Team Overview:

As a Platform Engineer you will be presented with a rare opportunity to build upon our AWS platform that is a game-changer for Dun & Bradstreet. We see the enormous value and potential in self-service automation to accelerate developer velocity safely, securely, and happily by building world class software delivery capabilities. You will support, enhance and build out our flagship Infrastructure as code platform which provides the foundation International Business lines outside of the USA. We are continuing to build out a leading edge hybrid technology platform operating on a market leading technology stack.

We are looking for an experienced software engineer with platform building and public cloud exposure. Some level of prior AWS experience is a must for the role although other cloud platform experience would also be an asset.

Thus, a strong interpersonal skillset is a must and the ability to communicate and articulate what is and isn't possible to senior stakeholders, managing their expectations along the way using Agile Scrum and Lean methodologies.

Become part of the story at this 184-year-old company and continue to drive forward our innovation agenda.

Responsibilities:

• As part of the Platform Engineering team, you will be working on a large multi-system AWS environment with developer enablement tooling that our internal application development teams rely on.
• Serve as a software engineering for integration, automation, reliability, monitoring, and operations of the overall platform’s IaC and features.
• Facilitate the requirements for engineering and support of the platform’s integrations.
• Help document, advocate, and formalize patterns for resilience, availability, security, monitoring and alerting that is integrated into firm systems.
• Make use of cloud platform tooling, including Terraform, Packer, Ansible, GitHub Enterprise, CICD etc
• Keep the running system and tools stable and up to date as well as cost efficient, explore new ways to improve these metrics.
• Participate in pull-request code and document reviews to help steer your team and developers towards platform solutions whilst gathering requirements to ensure we close functional gaps on the platform (e.g., style guidelines, accuracy, testability, and efficiency)
• Be an active participant in the envisioning, design, and development process – this includes proactively suggesting improvements and alternatives along with keeping an open mind to the suggestions offered by other team members and users.
• Collaborate with technology stakeholders and product teams to develop and articulate our vision; as well as deliver and sustain the end-to-end customer experience, in globally distributed platform aligned teams across technology.

Experience & Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or related technical field
• 5 years of infrastructure operations experience
• At least 4+ years of experience working with Linux systems in production
• At least 3 years+ working in AWS cloud environment
• Experience in Python3 and Shell scripting 
• Strong Kubernetes experience
• Experience in CI/CD pipelines (Bamboo/Jenkins etc)
• Mature software and IaC development practices
• Strong experience handling incidents and working with incident management processes
• Agile practices (any of: Kanban, scrum, etc. with jira or similar)
• Knowledge of databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, NoSQL Document DBs, ElasticSearch
• Good knowledge of English essential
• Ability to thrive in a high energy, high growth, fast paced, entrepreneurial environment, learning new skills to implement new technologies and excellent problem-solving skills.
• Highly collaborative team player who can build strong relationships at all levels of the technology and business organizations, with solid communication skills and ability to work across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support software solutions in full-stack development tools and technologies

Nice to have:

• 5+ years of extensive hands-on experience with various industry standard DevOps, SDLC and Cloud IaC tools and libraries:
• (EKS, NGINX Ingress Controller)
• Data streaming (Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS)
• CI/CD (Bamboo)
• GitHub Enterprise
• Observability (e.g. Splunk)
• Platform engineering skills in security, cloud networking and SDLC related technologies, e.g. PKI, TLS, DNS, Secrets Management, RBAC, Remote Access, Artifact management and DevSecOps/FinOps.

All Dun & Bradstreet job postings can be found at https://www.dnb.com/about-us/careers-and-people/joblistings.html and https://jobs.lever.co/dnb. Official communication from Dun & Bradstreet will come from an email address ending in @dnb.com.