Lead Cloud Engineer 

Our Company 
Informatica Corporation is the world’s number one independent provider of data integration software. Thousands of enterprises worldwide depend on Informatica data integration, data quality, and big data solutions to access, integrate, and trust their information assets residing on-premise and in the Cloud.  

Our Team 

The Informatica® Master Data Management (MDM) product delivers true multidomain master data management. It empowers companies to improve operations with business-user access to consolidated and reliable business-critical data, even when it’s scattered across the enterprise. Leading organizations in financial services, life sciences, manufacturing, healthcare, government, energy, and other fields rely on Informatica master data management software to cut costs and drive revenue by improving operations and making more informed decisions across the enterprise.  

Your Opportunity 

We are looking for highly motivated and energetic individuals to work on the next generation of data-fueled infrastructure and applications that leverage the latest Cloud and Big Data technologies.  You will work with a global team of talented engineers and use big data technologies to break ground in new MDM spaces. 

Our Ideal Candidate 

You are technically strong and able to work with high productivity. You like the excitement of working in a fast-paced environment. You like being creative and are open to new ideas and ways of doing things. You are able to work independently as well as within a team spanning multiple regions. In addition, you have the following attributes: 

• Ability to quickly learn new technologies in a dynamic environment 
• Strong Analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Accurately assess critical factors for success and mitigate risk on deliverables 
• Proactively share technical knowledge and best practices with team members 
• Possess excellent written and verbal skills 
• Articulate ideas and thoughts clearly and easily 
• Interact well with team leaders, peers, junior staff, and other managers at various positions.  

Your Responsibilities 

The successful candidate will be based in Toronto, Canada, and will: 

• Collaborate with R&D teams to design the next generation of application deployment architecture, and develop the orchestration strategy and automation framework for the product delivery process 
• Operate, monitor, and administer the Informatica MDM Cloud application and infrastructure using orchestration, automation, logging, alerting, monitoring, and metrics tools on Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure 
• Support the agile software development process among cross-functional teams to ensure smooth product delivery.
• Perform incident/alert troubleshooting, problem analysis and provide high-quality solutions to technical issues 
• Liaison with the Informatica Security Council to manage and define application security compliance standards 
• Define and implement the Disaster Recovery process 
• Manage incident process, and risk analysis of Informatica MDM Cloud applications 
• Create scalable alerting and auto-remediation systems. 
• Perform advanced troubleshooting and monitoring of MDM Cloud systems to ensure adequate SLA and capacity requirements.  

Your Qualifications 

• BS/MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent technical degree 
• 5 + or more years of overall service delivery experience, of which at least 3 years are in managing Cloud operation production environments and critical business services. 
• Solid understanding and proven practical experience in cloud provisioning and administration, cloud interoperability, cloud disaster recovery, and business continuity strategies.
• Proficiency with the Amazon AWS ecosystem 
• Knowledge of Kubernetes is required 
• Deep knowledge in setting up logging/monitoring tools, such as Sumo Logic, Prometheus, Grafana, is required 
• Strong knowledge of Cloud automation deployment process using Orchestration management, such as Terraform, Ansible, Chef, and Puppet 
• Strong Scripting language knowledge, such as Python, Shell, or PowerShell, is required.
• Deep knowledge of performing compliance and security audits and experience in defining, configuring, and implementing disaster recovery processes is a big plus 
• Experience with deployment and maintenance of elastic applications with microservice architecture is required 
• Experience with NoSQL DB (MongoDB), Kafka, and Elastic Search is a plus 
• Ability to work under considerable pressure managing multiple tasks and priorities 
• Demonstrated ability to produce high-quality results with attention to detail.
• Strong interpersonal and team communications skills are essential 
• Ability to rapidly learn new software, frameworks, open-source tools, and development languages. 
• Configuration and maintenance of common infrastructure such as Apache, proxy, nginx, SonarQube, Nexus, Jenkins 
• Strong knowledge of large-scale internet service architecture 
• Strong understanding of Unix and TCP/IP fundamentals. 
• Provide insights to DevOps into what you would like to see from an Ops perspective to help you react quickly to issues and help with troubleshooting and root cause analysis.