Requirements: English
Company: ION
Region: Pisa , Toscana
About usThe ION Group is made up of innovators who provide trading and workflow automation solutions, high-value analytics, and strategic consulting to corporations, financial institutions, central banks, and governments.More than 40% of the worlds largest companies use our solutions. Weve achieved tremendous growth by bringing together some of the best and most successful financial technology companies in the world.At ION, we offer careers that provide many opportunities: To invent, to design, to collaborate, to build, and to transform businesses and empower people around the world to do more, faster and better than before. Imagine what you can do and experience. This is where you can do your best work.Learn more at iongroup.com.We are looking for people who are competent in the cloud, both in the engineering and architecture areas of the domain.The teamThe Core Architecture Team (CAT) produces and manage the core technology, methodologies, and frameworks that underpin all new or re-engineered ION products.We provide our internal and external customers foundations and an open platform they can extend and evolve to manage their solutions independently and with reduced cost of ownership.The ION Cloud Center of Excellence is aimed to support the Group''s strategy toward a Cloud native offering" via a cross-functional team of empowered people that are responsible for developing and managing the strategy, governance, and best practices for the entire Group.Some of the team deliverables:Create the ION Cloud Infrastructure reusable by all the ION DivisionsReduce the total cost of ownershipProvide guidelines and best practices for the entire organizationReduce operation complexity via automated platform configuration and deploymentProvide tools that ease developers to set up the CI environment for ION productsGovernance on the development tools, to increase operational efficiencyTechnology recommendations standardization and infrastructure and product design, across the GroupWho you areYour background is either in software development or operations/infrastructure (or both!), and you enjoy coding or automating your workflows.You have proven experience in working with cloud providers and dealing with cloud-first applications engineered with a cloud-native mindset.You are a self-starter individual and constantly learning engineer and enjoy working in a team of peers.You are open and candid about discussing solutions, problems, and improvements within your team and others in the engineering organization.You are an advocate of DevOps or SRE approach, promoting loosely coupled, heavily automated, constantly monitored distributed systems, and you always plan for failure and never take anything for granted.You are keen to raise the bar of the solutions provided by the whole engineering team (Dev and Ops).You possess strong written and verbal communication skills.What you''ll be doingIts fine to have some of these, the more the merrier!The cloud engineer sidePromote and execute the adoption of DevOps and Cloud Native principles and raise awareness on the importance of reliability and automation.Help the team to give guidelines and blueprints on DevOps lifecycle of applications.Maintain our internal tooling and automation, to improve the reliability, scalability, and observability of our services.Proactively identify and solve issues across the whole stack, together with the rest of the infrastructure and engineering teams.Contribute to raise awareness in the security and protection of the cloud, understanding how to fit these in timelines and backlog of the end team.Understand how a distributed application works, constraints, and limitations.May have previous experience with software hosted in datacenters and on at least one public cloud and familiar with constraints and architectural choices.Will work to improve our automated delivery, improving our CI/CD solutions using automation tools to create/refactor deployment tools or pipelines (with SaaS solutions like GitHub).Have strong coding and scripting experience and you are interested in improving your programming/coding knowledge (Python or Go ideally).The cloud architect sideCreate a state-of-the-art secure cloud architecture, supported by a robust and flexible infrastructure and platform with reliable and efficient operating model.Design and implement deployment, maintenance, monitoring, and management processes within the cloud strategy.Design and support the Development team in creating new cloud-native applications, while reviewing existing applications to migrate them to support the cloud architecture strategy.Regularly evaluate the best cloud applications, capacity and size planning, and practices to keep the ION Cloud up to date with the best of breed available in the industry.Provide training and guidance to the rest of the organization, navigating them within the cloud journey.Engage with Product Development teams to ensure cloud-native architecture becomes