Cloud Engineer

ICRON, a leading provider of Optimized Decision Making and Supply Chain Optimization software solutions, is looking for an experienced Cloud Engineer to join our team in Istanbul office.

Are you ready to make your mark and contribute to the growth and strategy in an established and expanding planning and optimization software provider that is at the forefront of the industry?

If so, then ICRON would be a great fit for you.

Founded in 1992, ICRON has offices in Amsterdam, Istanbul, and Singapore and an ever-expanding client base that stretches across the world and across numerous industries. Some of the world’s largest and most prestigious companies – including Singapore Airlines, Ford, Bridgestone, Vestel, Şişecam, and Turkish Technic – use our software solutions.

We have a simple, but powerful, mission: to help our clients visualize, synchronize, and optimize their end-to-end supply chain operations and enable them to make optimized decisions that improve their productivity and profitability.

Responsibilities: 

• Ensuring that our software is up and running efficiently and cost effectively on public and private cloud environments
• Administering and maintaining production and development environments including RBAC
• Preparation and maintenance of infrastructure-as-code scripts
• Ensuring that continuous monitoring, tracing and alerting systems are in place for deployed services
• Investigation and adjustment of our cloud deployment strategies to different cloud providers
• Collaboration with software development teams on application modernization projects and improvements to CI/CD pipelines
• Contribution to the planning of application/infrastructure releases and configuration changes
• Interaction with key internal and external stakeholders to troubleshoot and resolve connectivity and performance problems by investigating software, compute infrastructure and network layers
• Design of appropriate metrics for reporting on key performance and quality indicators
• Hardening IT infrastructure based on security audits, standards and industry best practices (e.g. vulnerability scanning, penetration testing and ISO27001/17/18)
• Continuous self-development, keeping up to date with developments and learning about the latest public cloud products and IaaS / PaaS services and increasing your knowledge

Required Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's degree with a related major
• Operational experience supporting cloud technologies and services at an enterprise, multi-tenant environment
• Demonstrable experience with at least one major cloud platform (preferably Microsoft Azure) and associated technologies
• Knowledge of build, deployment, automation, networking, and security technologies in cloud and hybrid environments
• Knowledge of deployment and management of PaaS services for identity management, networking, storage, security services, compute, database, backup/recovery/high availability services

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Knowledge of DevOps and continuous integration tools, including Azure DevOps
• Experience with a scripting language such as PowerShell or Python, and usage of cloud provider CLIs / APIs for automation
• Solid understanding and experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) principles and practices, including proficiency in tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar technologies
• Ability to define and manage infrastructure deployments in a declarative and automated manner
• Proficiency in containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes, including experience in container orchestration, deployment, and management
• Familiarity with container registries, container networking, and container security best practices is desired