Azure/AWS Cloud Engineer

Syensqo is all about chemistry. We’re not just referring to chemical reactions here, but also to the magic that occurs when the brightest minds get to work together. This is where our true strength lies. In you. In your future colleagues and in all your differences. And of course, in your ideas to improve lives while preserving our planet’s beauty for the generations to come.

Join us at Syensqo, where our IT team is gearing up to enhance its capabilities. We play a crucial role in the group's transformation—accelerating growth, reshaping progress, and creating sustainable shared value. IT team is making operational adjustments to supercharge value across the entire organization.

Here at Syensqo, we're one strong team! Our commitment to accountability drives us as we work hard to deliver value for our customers and stakeholders. In our dynamic and collaborative work environment, we add a touch of enjoyment while staying true to our motto: reinvent progress.

Come be part of our transformation journey and contribute to the change as a future team member.

We are looking for:

As the AWS Cloud Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing and optimizing scalable, resilient cloud infrastructure of Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform. This role involves deploying, automating and maintaining cloud-based applications, services and tools to ensure high availability, security and performance. The ideal candidate will have in-depth knowledge of AWS services and architecture best practices, along with strong experience in infrastructure automation, monitoring and troubleshooting.

We count on you for:

• Design and implement secure, scalable and highly available cloud infrastructure using AWS services, based on business and technical requirements
• Develop automated deployment pipelines using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, AWS CloudFormation and AWS CDK, ensuring efficient, repeatable and consistent infrastructure deployments
• Implement and manage security practices such as Identity and Access Management, network security and encryption to ensure data protection and compliance with industry standards and regulations
• Design and implement backup, disaster recovery and failover solutions for high availability and business continuity
• Create and maintain comprehensive documentation of infrastructure architecture, configuration and troubleshooting steps and share knowledge with team members
• Close collaboration with multi-cloud enterprise architect, AWS solution architect, Cloud Operations Manager to ensure quick MVP prior to pushing into production
• Keep up-to-date with new AWS services, features and best practices, providing recommendations for process and architecture improvements

Education and experience

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business Administration, or a related field. Master's degree or relevant certifications would be a plus.
• Minimum of 2-5 years of experience in cloud engineering, cloud architecture or infrastructure role
• Proven experience with AWS services, including EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM and CloudFormation
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, AWS CloudFormation or AWS CDK
• Strong scripting skills in Python, Bash or PowerShell for automation tasks
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools (eg: Gitlab CI/CD, Jenkins, AWS CodePipeline) and experience integrating them with AWS
• Knowledge of networking fundamentals and experience with AWS VPC, security groups, VPN and routing
• Proficiency in monitoring and logging tools such as CloudWatch, CloudTrail or third-party tools like Datadog and Splunk
• Cybersecurity Expertise:
• Understanding of cybersecurity principles, best practices, and frameworks.
• Knowledge of encryption, identity management, access controls, and other security measures within cloud environments.
• Preferably with certifications such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, AWS Certified SysOps Administrator, AWS Certified Solutions Architect

Skills and behavioral competencies

• Excellent problem solving and troubleshooting abilities
• Result orientation, influence & impact
• Empowerment & accountability with the ability to work independently
• Team spirit, building relationships, collective accountability
• Excellent oral and written communication skills for documenting and sharing information with technical and non-technical stakeholders

Language skills

English

What’s in it for the candidate

• Be part of and contribute to a once-in-a-lifetime change journey
• Join a dynamic team that is going to tackle big bets
• Have fun and work at a high pace

About Us

• Syensqo is a science company developing groundbreaking solutions that enhance the way we live, work, travel and play. Inspired by the scientific councils which Ernest Solvay initiated in 1911, we bring great minds together to push the limits of science and innovation for the benefit of our customers, with a diverse, global team of more than 13,000 associates. Our solutions contribute to safer, cleaner, and more sustainable products found in homes, food and consumer goods, planes, cars, batteries, smart devices and health care applications. Our innovation power enables us to deliver on the ambition of a circular economy and explore breakthrough technologies that advance humanity.
• At Syensqo, we seek to promote unity and not uniformity. We value the diversity that individuals bring and we invite you to consider a future with us, regardless of background, age, gender, national origin, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, ability or identity. We encourage individuals who may require any assistance or accommodations to let us know to ensure a seamless application experience. We are here to support you throughout the application journey and want to ensure all candidates are treated equally. If you are unsure whether you meet all the criteria or qualifications listed in the job description, we still encourage you to apply.

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