Google Cloud Principal Engineer

About Us

Our Company C-9ine comes from the term ‘Cloud 9’ which is the highest cloud formation in the sky. For us this means to dream and reach for new heights, constantly testing the boundaries of innovation and technology and working with our clients to make their dreams and aspirations become a reality.

To empower start-ups and corporations to succeed by accelerating technical implementation, and reducing go-to-market barriers, while increasing the quality, security, and compliance of their product development.

To be the leading start up accelerator, helping build and launch successful products that make a lasting difference in the world.

Our global team consists of SMEs in backend, front end, architects, platform/infrastructure and project and programme management with decades of experience leading amazing projects globally for Governments and Private Sector. Projects ranging from fintech, national communications infrastructure, digital trade platformers for international trade to launching satellites. We work as a team and muck in with every aspect of the delivery lifecycle, consistently applying best-practice and by automating solutions we are able to build world-class software for our customers.

We are a multicultural and diverse engineering team and 100% cloud native.

• 5+ years of experience in enterprise Dev Ops, Dev Sec Ops  or Cloud Engineering; preferably working with one of the Hyper-scalers (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI).
• Working knowledge of Dev Sec Ops  best practice – Inspect – Continuous compliance framework – secure coding – CIS compliance
• Git Ops, CI/CD and IAC experience, Ansible or chef, especially with Git Lab Ultimate and Terraform
• Outstanding & proactive oral and written communication skills - with colleagues, mentees, and customers
• Problem-solving + analytical troubleshooting mindset with a hands-on attitude
• Providing solutions for our developers to deliver features and changes in fast, scalable, and reliable manner
• Exposure to programming and experience with operations in a commercial environment
• Knowledge and practical experience of scaling web applications, caring about site uptime and performance
• Experience working in a 100% cloud native environment
• Desire to work in a fast paced, ever evolving and growing dynamic environment
• Prefers CLI over GUI

• Strong background in Linux/Unix and system administration
• Knowledge of best practices and operations in an always-up, always-available 24/7/365 online world
• In depth experience with automation/configuration management/secrets management using either Ansible, Chef, Terraform, Vault and other Hashicorp products
• Experience with Kubernetes and Oracle Cloud will be a distinct advantage.
• Experience with Private/Public cloud Kubernetes deployment and automation
• In depth knowledge of microservices, Kubernetes, service mesh
• Experience with Docker, Docker images and usage in CI/CD and cloud environments
• Experience with agile software development + Dev Ops philosophies + 12 factor app
• Experience of ELK/EFK, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki and APM tools (e.g., Dynatrace)
• Git source control and Git Hub experience
• Tooling within the CNCF landscape

• Experience with Atlassian tools (JIRA/Confluence)
• Experience with configuring and using a CI/CD tool such as Jenkins, Concourse-CI
• Experience with Java, Node.js and Python
• Working understanding of code/script (Bash/Shell)
• Desirable experience with:
  Kong, Spark/Hadoop, Cassandra, Redis, MongoDB, any other RDBMS experience (e.g., Oracle or PostgreSQL)
• Experience with SAML2/OAUTH2

Technology skills are important when looking for candidates, however, you might not have everything single thing we are looking for, but that’s okay, we are very keen on people willing to learn where there are gaps, have an innovative mind, versatile and out-of-the box thinkers who can logically think through problems and find solutions.