Ref. nr: IT 00002263
WORK LOCATION - EXACT ADDRESS:
20 Prosta Str, Warsaw
DESCRIPTION/RESPONSIBILITIES:
Business Purpose / Background:
P&G has declared a Cloud First strategy and will be moving most of our workloads to the Cloud over the next few years. At the same time Core Data Lake and Data Hubs Program led by Data & Analytics Organization (D&A) is leveraging Cloud to transform BI and Analytics for the company, harmonizing various data types and allowing standard solutions tailored specifically for needs of specific Business Units.
As D&A Hosting Platform Capability Engineer you will leverage strong technical and management / soft skills to deliver to internal Data Hub application team cloud capabilities (primarily Azure) in a PaaS way - transforming newest technologies to secure, performant, stable, cost effective and flexible business capabilities that support P&G’s key business cases - targeting automation and self-service.
Responsibilities:
- Working with Cloud Service Partners & PG Corporate & Application Teams to understand, verify, improve and fix as needed available technical capabilities needed for D&A applications.
- This includes L3 support for major capability incidents escalations for own scope (may happen outside of work hours or weekends) and "deep" Problem Management support (investigate and find permanent fixes where workaround is used on production system due to capability not working correctly)
- Producing Blueprints for new capabilities (e.g. Azure DataBricks, AWS SageMaker, etc.)
- Designing and implementing Testing strategy for Capabilities, to verify them against D&A business cases and technical requirements in consistent way - to support D&A Data Hub Road Map; testing automation
- Developing scripts (PowerShell, shell (bash), Azure Automation) to automate work, optimize cost & performance, drive compliance, understand infrastructure health, working with Security Engineer on the execution plan
- Creating or driving creation of provisioning scripts (PowerShell, ARM templates, JSON, Azure Automation) with Cloud Team to enable D&A DevOps and D&A Hosting Platform Utility Engineers to self-provision security compliant Azure services in quick, easy way
- Drive or leverage capabilities (Containers, infrastructure automation/configuration tools) to support effective patching and compliance
- Building in security into capabilities; running iRisk assessment for Capability placed in Data Hub application architecture
- Staying on top of industry best practices, suggesting them to the team, defining Best Practices and onboarding various application teams to Platform Best Practices and Available Capabilities
- Developing prototypes of internal applications/tools supporting DevOps
- Expanding area to other Cloud Providers (like GCP) if needed
REQUIRED SKILLS:
Strong technical knowledge and demonstrated year experience in each of the following areas:
- MS Azure Cloud Computing Platform & Services (different resources, offerings and tools, Azure ARM Templates)
- Infrastructure and Platform components (network, load balancers, firewalls, servers, databases)
- PowerShell and/or Linux environment and shell (bash) scripting
Necessary technical skills (1 or more of each domain):
- Programming Languages: Python, Java, C++, PHP, Perl, Ruby
- Good understanding of infrastructure and Platform components (network, load balancers, firewalls, servers, databases), technical knowledge and experience in Hosting and related technologies (data center, cloud [IaaS, PaaS], computing, Windows, Linux, storage, backup, security, disaster recovery, virtualization, etc.), have a passion for these domains, and can learn technologies quickly
- Ability to quickly penetrate technology areas and ask appropriate and relevant technical questions
Desirable skills:
- Experience in some infrastructure automation/configuration tool – Ansible, Chef, Puppet or similar - you know how those can help with large-scale, complex deployments
- Stewardship experience to ensure services are compliant with relevant P&G policies (Security, Governance, etc.). Having a previous experience working on Information Security matters at an infrastructure platform level
- Experience in Containers (Docker / Kubernetes)
- Knowledge of Kusto Query Language and Azure LogAnalytics
- Knowledge of PowerBI
- Basic Vendor Management Skills
Qualifications (completed, or to be built on the role):
- Microsoft Certified – Azure Developer or Data Engineer Associate Certification;
- ITIL foundations knowledge; or IT operations background
- Minimum Bachelors Degree
Personal qualities:
- Excellent communication skills (English) with both technical and non-technical colleagues from geographically distributed teams on all organizational levels;
- Problem-solving attitude (we don’t like excuses, we like solutions);
- Proactive, initiative taking and not afraid to challenge the status quo (we hire smart people for a reason - we’re looking to you to help us improve);
- Experience working with external companies;
- Being a team player. Big projects aren’t developed by individuals – you need to work with others well.
Skills You Can Expect to Learn/Build on this Job:
- Deep Technical knowledge and experience in cloud BI & Analytics relevant capabilities;
- Big Picture understanding of the GBS organization and its Services;
- Expertise working in global multifunctional team on Cloud Platforms;
- Industry Certifications (ITIL, DevOps, Azure).