Senior Cloud Engineer
About Authentica Solutions
Company Overview:
Authentica Solutions is a leading EdTech organization that aims to revolutionize the education sector by providing innovative solutions that empower educators, students, and institutions. We are dedicated to creating a holistic and data-driven educational ecosystem, and we are seeking a skilled Senior Cloud Engineer to play a pivotal role in building our Education Intelligence Platform. This platform will leverage IPaaS (Integration Platform as a Service), industry standard connection services, standards alignment, intricate privacy requirements, and Data Lake technologies to solve complex problems in the EdTech landscape, enhancing our partnerships and driving world class integration solutions.
Our Customers:
Architecting a platform that delivers capabilities as self-service and driven for needs known and unknown provide this role an opportunity to reimagine middleware making it miracle-ware that services EdTech Software Providers (ISVs), System Integrators, Resellers, Consulting Services Partners, Strategic Partners (Microsoft, Google, AWS, +), Departments/Ministries of Education, K12 School Districts, and Higher Education organizations, globally. With a priority on third party purchase and use, our platform must solve the most complex data challenges in Education empowering partners to serve their customer’s needs fast, simple, and with consistency.
Responsibilities
As a Sr. Cloud Engineer, you will be an integral part of our engineering team, responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining the Education Intelligence Platform. Your expertise will be crucial in ensuring the scalability, reliability, and performance of the platform, enabling us to drive true impact for our partners and stakeholders.
You will play a key role in constructing, managing, and enhancing fault-tolerant Azure and .NET infrastructure while upholding the highest standards of code quality and integrity.
- Collaborating with the other engineering and product teams to execute on product goals.
- Developing and managing fault-tolerant and scalable platform features using distributed cloud technologies, such as Azure services, GCP and AWS.
- Develop identity management services and integrations, leveraging existing industry standards and best practices like Okta and OAuth.
- Assisting in the construction of control plane infrastructure using event-driven services for testing, code promotion, and job execution.
- Conducting POCs to validate new tools and services that enhance our platform engineering solutions and products.
- Troubleshooting production issues.
- Staying abreast of industry standards and technological advancements to continually improve our engineering output.
About You (or Here’s What We’re Looking For)
- Growth mindset, insatiably curious, always learning, and welcoming challenges for the opportunity to grow.
- You believe that you can only be successful when the whole team is successful, and you put your efforts towards it.
- Has a keen interest in the educational sector and the impact technology can have on it.
- Ability to bring innovative technical solutions ideas to solve real problems.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
Required Skills and Experience
Must Have
- Minimum of 10 years hands-on experience with software engineering building platform level technologies.
- Minimum of 4 years hands-on experience building solutions with cloud services; must include Azure.
- Proven experience integrating 3 rd party services, particularly with Identity services such as Okta and OAuth.
- Experience with Agile Software Development Methodologies.
- Familiarity or experience with orchestration tools.
- Solid design and development background in modern technologies such as API management, REST/API integration, Containers, and Micro services.
- Experience in designing or working with data warehouses, including an understanding of associated data flows.
- Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal.
- English fluency is required to effectively communicate with our clients and other key stakeholders both internal and external.
Nice to Have
- Knowledge or hands-on experience with streaming platforms and real-time data pipeline systems such as Apache Kafka, Azure Event Hubs, and similar platforms.
- Experience building IPaaS solutions / services.
- Experience working with big data storage technologies like Azure Data Lake, Hadoop, BigQuery, and similar tools.
Join Authentica Solutions and be part of a dynamic team that’s shaping the future of education through data-driven insights. If you are passionate about solving complex problems, building scalable data platforms, and making a positive impact on education, we encourage you to apply!
Authentica Solutions is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. We provide a workplace free from discrimination and harassment, and where employees are treated with respect and dignity. Our employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications.
We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply, as we believe a diverse workforce brings a variety of ideas, perspectives, and experiences that enhance our ability to meet the needs of our customers and drive innovation.
Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the United States. We are unable to provide sponsorship or assume responsibility for employment Visa sponsorship.
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