Cloud Engineer

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It's fun to work in a company where people truly believe in what they're doing!

At Black Line, we're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business of enterprise applications.

Since being founded in 2001, Black Line has become a leading provider of cloud software that automates and controls the entire financial close process. Our vision is to modernize the finance and accounting function to enable greater operational effectiveness and agility, and we are committed to delivering innovative solutions and services to empower accounting and finance leaders around the world to achieve Modern Finance.

Being a best-in-class SaaS Company, we understand that bringing in new ideas and innovative technology is mission critical. At Black Line we are always working with new, cutting edge technology that encourages our teams to learn something new and expand their creativity and technical skillset that will accelerate their careers.

Work, Play and Grow at Black Line!

The Cloud Engineer is at the core of preparing for the continued exponential growth of Blackline’s SaaS product and other programs in the Technical Operations group that powers all of Blackline.

• Manage AWS, GCP and/or Azure cloud environments
• Manage the full lifecycle of Dev Ops tools, Jenkins, Artifactory, Consul and other tools as required including upgrades, patches and scalability enhancements
• Build and manage on premise and cloud-based Kubernetes clusters
• Configure, deploy, and scale open source software including:
  Ubuntu Linux, Docker, rkt, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Fluentd, Flannel, Elasticsearch
• Contribute code back to open source projects to fix bugs and add features needed by our team
• Write new components from scratch when there is no suitable open source project
• Build sensors to monitor platform health and performance
• Interact with customers to promote best practices and influence architecture to be cloud-native
• Serve as technical lead for small projects and support medium to large projects
• Troubleshoot and fix the system when it breaks
• Share the responsibility of being on‑call

• A minimum of 3+ years’ direct experience building or operating cloud native applications using Kubernetes and Docker
• Proficiency with shell scripting and related tools
• Proficiency with Linux Sys Ops or Windows Sys Ops tasks
• Experience using Docker in production
• Can write clean, readable code
• Familiarity with networking, comp sci stuff, and distributed systems
• Demonstrated experience developing or operating production web applications and basic understanding of HTTP(S), HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and XML
• Intermediate knowledge of at least one of the following languages: C#, Visual Basic, Power Shell, Linux, ASP.NET, Ruby, Go or Java preferably in an agile SaaS environment
• Exposure to Kubernetes in a bare metal/non-public cloud provider environment
• Experience with open source platforms and technologies
• Experience with software development processes and methodologies
• Experience building cloud native/cloud first applications in a cloud environment such as AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure
• Track record of developing and implementing robust, distributed online solutions
• Eager to learn and soak in new information
• Strong ownership, pride of work, and ability to take things across the finish line. Someone can see around corners and who finishes well
• Someone energized by a fast‑paced, iterative approach
• Expertise in using and managing cloud platforms and cloud native tools
• Strong written and oral communication skills

• A technology‑based company with a sense of adventure and a vision for the future. Every door at Black Line is open. Just bring your brains, your problem‑solving skills, and be part of a winning team at the world's most trusted name in Finance Automation!
• A culture that is kind, open, and accepting. It's a place where people can embrace what makes them unique, and the mix of cultural backgrounds and varying interests cultivates diverse thought and perspectives.
• A culture where Black Liner's continued growth and learning is empowered. Black Line offers a wide variety of…