- Proactively engage and work in alignment with cross-functional colleagues to understand their requirements, contributing to and providing suitable supporting solutions.

- Develop and introduce systems to aid and facilitate rapid growth, including implementation of deployment policies, designing and implementing new procedures, configuration management, and planning of patches, and for capacity upgrades

- Observability : ensure suitable levels of monitoring and alerting are in place to keep engineers aware of issues.

- Establish runbooks and procedures to keep outages to a minimum.

- Jump in before users notice that things are off track, then automate it for the future.

- Automate everything so that nothing is ever done manually in production.

- Identify and mitigate reliability and security risks.

- Make sure we are prepared for peak times, DDoS attacks, and fat fingers.

- Troubleshoot issues across the whole stack - software, applications, and network.

- Manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables as part of a self-organizing team.

- Learn and unlearn every day by exchanging knowledge and new insights, conducting constructive code reviews, and participating in retrospectives.

Requirements :

- 2+ years of extensive experience in Linux server administration, including patching, packaging (rpm), performance tuning, networking, user management, and security.

- 2+ years of implementing systems that are highly available, secure, scalable, and self-healing on the Azure cloud platform.

- Strong understanding of networking, especially in cloud environments, along with a good understanding of CICD.

- Prior experience implementing industry-standard security best practices, including those recommended by Azure.

- Proficiency with Bash and any high-level scripting language.

- Basic working knowledge of observability stacks like ELK, prometheus, grafana, Sigooz, etc.

- Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code and Infrastructure Testing, preferably using Pulumi/Terraform.

- Hands-on experience in building and administering VMs and Containers using tools such as Docker/Kubernetes.

- Excellent communication skills, spoken as well as written, with a demonstrated ability to articulate technical problems and projects to all stakeholders