CloudOps Engineer

  • Full-time
  • Verisk Business: Wood Mackenzie

Company Description

Wood Mackenzie is the global leader in data, analysis and consulting across the energy, chemicals, metals, mining, power and renewables sectors.

Founded in 1973, our success has always been underpinned by the simple principle of providing trusted research and advice that makes a difference to our customers. Today we have over 2,000 customers ranging from the largest global energy companies and financial institutions to governments as well as smaller market specialists.

Our teams are located around the world. This enables us to stay closely connected with customers and the markets and sectors we cover. Collectively this allows us to offer a compelling combination of global commodity analysis with detailed local market knowledge.

We are committed to supporting our people to grow and thrive. We value different perspectives and aspire to create an inclusive environment that encourages diversity and fosters a sense of belonging. We are committed to creating a workplace that works for you and encourage everyone to get involved in our Wellness, Diversity and Inclusion, and Community Engagement initiatives. We actively support flexible working and are happy to consider alternative work patterns, taking into account your needs and the needs of the team or division that you are looking to join. 

Hear what our team has to say about working with us:

https://www.woodmac.com/careers/our-people/

We are proud to be a part of the Verisk family of companies! 

At the heart of what we do is help clients manage risk. Verisk (Nasdaq: VRSK) provides data and insights to our customers in insurance, energy and the financial services markets so they can make faster and more informed decisions.   

Our global team uses AI, machine learning, automation, and other emerging technologies to collect and analyze billions of records. We provide advanced decision-support to prevent credit, lending, and cyber risks. In addition, we monitor and advise companies on complex global matters such as climate change, catastrophes, and geopolitical issues.  

But why we do our work is what sets us apart. It stems from a commitment to making the world better, safer and stronger.  

It’s the reason Verisk is part of the UN Global Compact sustainability initiative. It’s why we made a commitment to balancing 100 percent of our carbon emissions. It’s the aim of our “returnship” program for experienced professionals rejoining the workforce after time away. And, it’s what drives our annual Innovation Day, where we identify our next first-to-market innovations to solve our customers’ problems.   

At its core, Verisk uses data to minimize risk and maximize value. But far bigger, is why we do what we do. 

At Verisk you can build an exciting career with meaningful work; create positive and lasting impact on business; and find the support, coaching, and training you need to advance your career. We have received the Great Place to Work® Certification for the fifth consecutive year. We’ve been recognized by Forbes as a World’s Best Employer and a Best Employer for Women, testaments to our culture of engagement and the value we place on an inclusive and diverse workforce.  Verisk’s Statement on Racial Equity and Diversity supports our commitment to these values and affecting positive and lasting change in the communities where we live and work.  

Job Description

The principal responsibility of this role is to provide support to the business in adoption of cloud native applications and services . This encompasses:

  • Working in partnership with the business and the technology teams, bringing awareness and insight of the different operational constraints / opportunities for projects targeting cloud-based deployment.
  • Governance and maintenance of cloud environments
  • support of team mentoring and project coordination
  • Communication with cross-functional groups, following DevOps best practices
  • a strong focus on service availability and proactive detection of problems

Qualifications

Operational Responsibilities:

  • Work with business teams on maintaining compliancy and security in our cloud space e.g. Patching, Config management
  • Ensure monitoring of performance and availability of cloud services, continuously identifying areas of improvement
  • Work with a continuous improvement mindset, identifying operational processes that could be improved and drafting proposals.

Knowledge & Experience

  • The successful candidate will have a solid background in IT Operation or Software Engineering with an operational mindset.
  • Experience of deployment in the cloud (Amazon Web Services/Azure/Google)
  • A DevOps mindset; knowledge of agile processes (Kanban / Scrum) is important and familiarity with JIRA is desired
  • Ability to work proficiently in a team distributed at multiple locations and time zones

Technical Competencies
The preferred skillset would involve:-

  • Automation toolset knowledge (Cloudformation/Ansible/Terraform)
  • Continuous Integration and Delivery toolset (Jenkins/bitbucket)
  • Solid Amazon Web Services knowledge (AWS certified)
  • AWS Compliancy which involves ensuring our infrastructure in good shape e.g. EC2 instances are patched.
  • AWS Config
  • System administration skills with Windows and Linux technology.
  • Relational database knowledge is desirable – experience working with various DB technologies such as Oracle, MS SQL Server, MySQL or PostgreSQL is valuable.
  • Monitoring toolset knowledge e.g Prometheus/Pingdom/Grafana
  • Git and familiarity with collaboration processes (pull/merge requests, etc.); we manage our infrastructure as code, so being comfortable with scripting languages (bash, python) is important
  • Experience with containerisation technologies would be advantageous (Docker/Harbor)

Additional Information

Verisk Analytics is an equal opportunity employer.

All members of the Verisk Analytics family of companies are equal opportunity employers. We consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, veteran's status, age or disability.

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