Senior Cloud Platform Engineer (Core, Azure)

About AlphaSense AlphaSense is a market intelligence platform used by the world's leading companies and financial institutions. Since 2011, our AI-based technology has helped professionals make smarter business decisions by delivering insights from an extensive universe of public and private content – including company filings, event transcripts, news, trade journals, and equity research. Our platform is trusted by over 3,500 enterprise customers, including a majority of the S&P 500. Headquartered in New York City, AlphaSense employs over 1,200 people across offices in the U.S., U.K., Finland, India, and Singapore. For more information, please visit www.alpha-sense.com. 

The Role 
We seek a highly motivated and experienced Cloud Platform Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for building a world-class Kubernetes platform that is supposed to run across main public clouds - Azure, AWS, and GCP. This is an opportunity to use the latest cloud-native technologies and grow your multi-cloud skills in a company that stays at the leading edge of AI innovation. As a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer, you will be a driving force in discovering and leveraging new opportunities to develop cloud-based infrastructures. Your work will directly support our teams' dynamic requirements and contribute to the enhancement of our skills in DevSecOps.

• 7+ years of Experience in designing, operating, and troubleshooting solutions in the public cloud (Azure Preferred)
• 5+ Years of experience in Kubernetes, Docker, and CNCF ecosystems.
• Proven experience operating Kubernetes clusters with lifecycle management tools (e.g. Rancher, Anthos, CAPI, or Crossplane). Design and implementation of cluster lifecycle management platforms is a plus
• In-depth understanding and hands-on experience with Kubernetes components, including API server, CNIs, scheduler, controllers, etc
• Solid understanding of networking, Linux, container orchestration, storage systems, cloud services, security protocols, and system monitoring tools
• Experience with certificate and secret management, CSI provisioners, and vertical and horizontal auto-scaling in Kubernetes clusters.
• Ample experience in building highly automated cloud infrastructures with immutable infrastructure and IaC principles (using e.g., Terraform, Pulumi, Crossplane, etc)
• Experience with scripting in Shell or Python. Good proficiency in at least one programming language - Java/Python/Golang is a plus.
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS) is a plus (but we prefer proven experience)

• Experience with ArgoCD and GitOps methodologies
• Experience with Hashicorp vault or other secret management tool

• Playing a part in the story of a fast growing company
• Interesting career opportunities and training
• Relocation support for single employees, couples and families
• While we do have an office in Helsinki, we’re a distributed company. We value outcomes over time, and offer flexible working arrangements. We usually meet at the office once a week.
• Private healthcare services from Terveystalo
• 2 weeks of vacation granted up front, and possibility to use vacation days as they accrue
• Access to gym room, gaming room, free parking near the office, mobile phone, Lunch benefit, mobile plan, home internet, remote work equipment, and many more....