Senior Hosting Engineer

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Senior Hosting Engineer operating Cincom’s Azure-hosted enterprise software environments. Managing Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, customer service levels, reliability, security and cloud costs.

Responsibilities:

  • Own day-to-day operation of hosted customer environments, including patching, backups, monitoring, capacity and change
  • Act as senior escalation point for hosting incidents and drive resolution with product teams
  • Run scheduled disaster recovery tests and remediate findings
  • Maintain current runbooks and operational documentation
  • Manage Azure cloud subscriptions and services for hosted customers
  • Track and control cloud spend for each customer and flag cost or capacity issues
  • Manage reserved capacity, renewals and cloud provider support cases
  • Build and configure new customer environments using approved reference architectures and infrastructure as code
  • Work with the Kubernetes Engineer to run and improve the container platform
  • Set up test environments and support performance-testing configurations for hosted and on-premise deployments
  • Serve as technical contact for hosted customers regarding environments, availability and service levels
  • Report availability, incidents and performance against hosting service levels
  • Smoothly onboard new hosted customers with Delivery and Client Success
  • Lead and develop the Kubernetes Engineer once the Hosted Services structure is finalised
  • Automate repetitive work and improve monitoring and alerting
  • Provide evidence and controls for ISO 27001 and SOC 2 certification

Requirements:

  • Several years running production customer environments in Azure, at a software vendor or managed service provider (AZ-104 or equivalent level)
  • Hands-on infrastructure as code, using Terraform, Bicep or similar
  • Working experience with Kubernetes and containers, ideally Azure Kubernetes Service
  • Strong Windows and Linux server administration
  • Experience with relational databases such as SQL Server, Oracle or PostgreSQL
  • Practical experience with backup, disaster recovery and monitoring tooling
  • Comfortable talking to customers about their service and calm under incident pressure
  • Able to work effectively as part of a remote team spread across time zones
  • Experience with performance or load testing tools
  • Cloud cost management or FinOps experience
  • Experience in an ITIL-based support organisation and ISO 27001 or SOC 2 environments
  • Some experience leading or mentoring an engineer

Benefits:

  • Independent Contractor (Contractor is responsible for applicable taxes and statutory obligations, subject to the agreement and local law)
  • Full-time role
  • Availability for occasional short travels
  • Payment in USD
  • Equipment provided by the company