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Position Summary
Reporting to the Senior Director - EIT Governance & Portfolio Management, this position is for an IT operations change agent in the digital transformation journey for Iron Mountain.
Looking for a Cloud Operations Engineer who is strong in public cloud concepts, and who can perform cloud enablement in GCP, AWS, and Azure. Ideally, this Ops Engineer already has cloud governance experience and has performed various cloud administration tasks.
The Ops Engineer role is heavily technical whilst also requires the balance of strong communication skills as he/she will be working remotely alongside internal customers daily such as Architects, Project Managers, and business leaders.
The Cloud Ops Engineer must be able to triage cloud enablement requests, and perform enablement which takes into account Iron Mountain’s technology, security, and finance governance policies.
The candidate will help ensure the compliance of corporate standards and be capable of articulating security best practices.
Most times the candidate negotiates on the appropriate enablement so that the cloud conforms to our standards. Also he/she encourages and influences colleagues to adopt the governance patterns introduced by the Cloud Operations Leads.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities
● Operate the current cloud enablement processes while adhering to our governance strategy
for onboarding public cloud accounts. This includes the implementation of cloud operations
guardrails.
● Liaise with technical and non-technical customers through the enablement process, and work
collaboratively with the Cloud Operations Lead on complex or ambiguous requests.
Effectively communicate when you need more details, both to the internal customers and teammates, or to compromise on the enablement, or respectfully deny the request.
Collaboration with the risk and compliance organization to operate cloud governance policies
that adhere to auditable security standards in the Cloud.
● Work daily with other cloud operations team members on both operational processes, but also tooling/automation that allows us to move faster without quality loss.
● Responsible for operating the rollout of public cloud accounts (and IAM account access) across multiple cloud providers, such as GCP, AWS, Azure, Oracle OCI.
● Provide internal customers access to our FinOps tool, whilst providing guidance on how to
generate reports and dashboards. The candidate would be trained on how to carry this out.
Knowledge, Skills and Qualifications:
Number of Years of Work Experience: 3+ years in a technical cloud role preferably as a DevOps Engineer, Cloud Engineer or Cloud Operations Administrator.
Required and Preferred Skills:
● Strong grasp of cloud technologies and services
● Ideally hands-on DevOps experience across multiple cloud providers: GCP, AWS, and Azure.
● Hands-on experience using Terraform and/or GitLab.
● Python engineering experience.
● Exceptional customer service skills, in addition to extensive experience working in a team-
oriented, collaborative environment.
● Must be able to communicate effectively (influencing, requirements gathering, reaching
mutually beneficial agreements between engineering teams and governance)
● Exceptional organizational skills with attention to detail, and capable of prioritizing team
workloads.
● Conceptual understanding and interest in Cloud FinOps and enabling cost visibility within the
enterprise.
● Willingness and desire to be part of a team that is service-focused based upon the incoming
demand for cloud services and to host cloud applications.
● Awareness of business impacts of technical work, such as the risks with carrying out tasks
which could centrally affect production environments.
● Comfortable working both independently on technical tasks when required, with seeking
guidance from other team members when needed.
● Possesses cloud certifications and desire to continuously improve.
Education: BS/BA degree in Computer Science/ Information Technology/ Information Security or
related field or equivalent experience.
