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SAS Cloud Development Experience (CDX) Platform Team

The Cloud Development Experience (CDX) Platform Team at SAS responsible for providing baseline & building blocks of cloud environments using Microsoft enterprise landing zone concept in Azure, developer tools, builder’s library for our software engineering teams with mission of supporting them for developing cloud native digital solutions, also driving DevOps, SecOps & SRE practices in software engineering teams.

You will play key role in empowering our engineering teams, improving the developer experience, and fostering a software engineering culture as part of Cloud Development Experience (CDX) Platform Team. Our engineering teams are organized in value streams with several products.

Main responsibilities

• Part of Cloud Development Experience (CDX) Platform Team, responsible for design & implementation of cloud environments to engineering teams, also responsible for driving DevOps, SecOps (shifting security left in lifecycle), SRE practices.
• Build & Implement the baseline, building blocks for different cloud services, security, automated pipelines, monitoring, logging, and observability of cloud platform.
• Design and implement the lifecycle of common Cloud, DevOps and Security tools used in software development lifecycle (SDLC).
• Coaching engineering teams with best practices and ways of working in Cloud, adopting DevOps & Security practices, running containers, serverless, data & analytics, machine learning workloads in the cloud.
• Facilitate assessments and discussions such as Well Architected Reviews, Threat Modeling workshops with engineering teams.
• Build & Implement builder’s library (reference implementation) practices to enable sharing, cross collaboration, and way of working in engineering teams., also build the technology community to scale these practices in the organization.
• Collaborate with engineers, product owners in achieving the best cloud development experience for engineering teams.

Qualifications and requirements

We are looking for a person who enjoy working in public cloud, designing & implementing solutions in the Cloud, driving DevOps, SecOps, SRE practices such as automation, Infrastructure as code, Pipeline as Code, Security as Code, Service-Level Objective (SLO), Service-Level Indicator (SLI) etc.

In addition, the following experiences are relevant:

• Experience with designing & implementing solutions using cloud native services (preferably Azure or other cloud provider AWS or GCP).
• Hands-on experience as Cloud Engineer, Platform Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, or similar roles coming from Software development or system administration background.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code practices using Terraform, Azure Resource Manager or similar tools.
• Experience with Container and/or Serverless services in the cloud environments.
• Some experience with designing and implementing solutions using cloud native API Gateway and API management services (preferably in Azure or other cloud provider).
• Experience with monitoring and logging solutions using cloud native services or Prometheus & Grafana stack.
• Experience with writing automation scripts/tools using Bash, Python, JavaScript, Typescript or Go.
• Willingness on driving initiatives, coaching engineering teams with DevOps, SecOps & SRE practices
• Development experience of pair-programming, mob-programming.

As a person we believe you are….

We believe you are team player, sparring & helping team members, attitude & willingness to learn skills, suggest improvements, prioritize and drive own tasks in coordination with the team members and stakeholders. You are keen on driving DevOps, SecOps (shifting security left in the software development lifecycle) and SRE practices to help our engineering teams to achieve agility in development, autonomy & trust, faster time to market and build software engineering culture.