Mid/Senior Cloud Engineer

About the Tech Team

Technology powers everything we do at Dialectica – from communicating with clients and finding the most relevant expert profiles in just a few minutes to indexing and categorizing thousands of pieces of information every day. To do so, we are building our own proprietary web application that automates and optimizes the delivery of our market leading services.

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About the role

As a Cloud Engineer you will collect and analyze business requirements from our internal teams, design, deploy and monitor all necessary cloud hosted components needed for our  solutions.

We are a cloud-first company with a strong focus on modern technologies.The main objective will be to deliver cloud-native solutions, boost operational efficiency, and optimise processes. Our Cloud Engineering team leverages expertise in cloud platforms to design secure, scalable, and cost-effective solutions.

Indicatively, the responsibilities will include:

• Maintain and optimize functionality of the delivered software solutions
• Setup and maintain our Cloud architecture and drive technology decisions
• Setup and optimize the CI/CD pipelines as part of the Software Development Lifecycle
• Ensure optimal operation of our Cloud infrastructure hosting all our cloud-native applications and their respective environments (non-production, production)
• Have an active role in designing and maintaining our Observability platform

We have seen that people who successfully fit in this position have:

• BSc or MSc degree majoring in Computer Science, Network Engineering or Electrical Engineering
• 4+ years of professional experience as a DevOps, Site Reliability , or Cloud Engineer
• 2 years  experience with Infrastructure as Code tools, such as Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation
• Understanding of programming concepts such as structured code, object-oriented and multi-tiered development experience, and design patterns
• Fact-driven mindset with experience on modern observability methodologies (distributed tracing, telemetry and logging)
• Proven expertise with at least one public Cloud hosting platform (ex: AWS, GCP, Azure),  using its managed services for production grade use of highly scalable solutions.
• Proven expertise on managing and troubleshooting Kubernetes clusters under production workloads, stateful and stateless (EKS, GKE, AKS)
• Excellent ability to problem-solve, debug, and understand pertinent performance metrics
• Extended knowledge in designing, building, and working with Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD) Pipelines (Gitlab CI, Github Actions)
• A secure-by-design approach with respect to compliance frameworks such as ISO27001 and SOC-2
• Great attention to detail while staying within budget and delivering on time
• Good understanding of how cloud costs can be monitored and optimized

It's great, but not required if you are:

• Comfortable with Agile methodologies
• Holding advanced certifications related to AWS and/or the Kubernetes ecosystem

Our Values:

• Ownership
• Growth Mindset
• Teamwork
• Respect

Our Engineering Principles:

• Master your Craft
• Work for the Team
• Build for the Business
• Be Pragmatic

Fluency in English is a must!

• Competitive base salary with additional performance incentives
• Coverage under the company’s collective health insurance plan
• Learning and development opportunities (e.g. onboarding, on-the-job training, Udemy courses and many others!)
• Hybrid work model & extra personal/flex days and paid volunteer days a year for your favorite cause
• Company sponsored team-bonding events
• Entrepreneurial culture and amazing coworkers!

About Dialectica

Dialectica is the global leader in insights on-demand. We enable investment and business professionals to access untapped market, competitive & customer insights powered by the world’s hardest to find experts, and cutting-edge technology. Our team of +1,000 professionals in 5 offices spanning 3 continents, works with top-tier investment funds, management consulting firms, and Fortune 500 companies around the globe.

Driven by our mission to achieve unparalleled customer recognition, we are developing the most trusted and innovative knowledge-sharing platform in the world. Dialectica has been recognized as one of Europe’s fastest-growing companies by the Financial Times for 4 years in a row, a Top Employer for Recent Graduates by The Career Directory in Canada and a Best Workplace.