At Aptos, we’re seeking a proactive and skilled Junior Cloud Architect to join our innovative team. This DevOps role blends software engineering and systems administration to ensure the scalability, performance, and reliability of our large-scale, cloud-based applications and infrastructure.
What You'll Do:
- Maintain and Optimize: Keep our observability and management cluster in top shape, ensuring continuous monitoring and management of cloud environments.
- Proactive Problem Solving: Address issues before they escalate, manage failures automatically, prepare disaster recovery plans, and ensure system reliability.
- Resource and Security Management: Oversee resource allocation, backups, and apply ongoing upgrades and security fixes.
- Support and Training: Assist the CloudOps team and other departments, onboard new team members, and provide comprehensive documentation and training.
- Enhance Observability: Implement and manage dashboards, alerts, integrations with third-party services, and assist developers with automation.
Qualifications:
- Experience: 5+ years in Information Systems, software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration.
- Technical Skills:
- Git: Basic workflow for software delivery.
- Networking: Knowledge of IP addresses, subnets, routing, and protocols (HTTP/S, TLS, etc.).
- AWS: Familiarity with core services (IAM, EC2, S3) and basic console usage.
- Scripting: Basic Bash and Python coding skills.
- Kubernetes & Helm: Basic understanding and familiarity.
- Tools: Experience with Curl, wget, or Postman.
Preferred Skills:
- Education: Degree in Computer Science or related field (preferred but not required).
- Statistics: High school level knowledge (normal distribution, histograms).
- Monitoring Tools: Experience with Grafana, Prometheus/Mimir/Loki/AlertManager, or similar.
- SDKs: Experience with AWS or Kubernetes Python SDK.
- Linux: Basic system administration skills.
- AWS Lambda: Knowledge of deployment and monitoring.
- Terraform: Experience with basic workflows and module creation.
- Docker: Understanding of container image building and running.
- Configuration Management: Familiarity with Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or SaltStack.
- Powershell: Knowledge is a plus.
What We Value:
- Exceptional Work Ethic: Strong time management and the ability to work independently or as part of a team.
- Communication Skills: Excellent written and verbal skills with a commitment to customer service.
- Technical Curiosity: A proactive approach to learning and adapting to new technologies and challenges.
- The pay range for this position is between $100,000 and $120,000 plus Annual Incentive Bonus. Starting salary may vary based on a number of factors including, but not limited to, the position being offered, location, education, training, and/or experience.