Innovative and technological projects are our daily business. We provide customers with the highest quality guided by integrity, objectivity and investment in data, tools, technologies, products and services. We believe that with non-obvious combinations of skills, experience and technology, we can actively participate in shaping tomorrow.

We are looking for:

Cloud Operations Lead

Your future role:

• overseeing operations of leading-edge enterprise solutions using cloud-native technologies and security best practices to deliver business value for internal customers at PwC,
• collaborating with internal customers at PwC to gather business and technical requirements,
• collaborating with various NextGen Cloud workstreams to create comprehensive enterprise solutions,
• supporting team members to accelerate the team’s throughput and improve the quality of deliverables,
• leading operations workshops,
• creating security standards and working with relevant teams to enforce those standards.

Apply if you:

• have at least 3 years of experience in an operations role,
• have at least 3 years of experience managing others,
• know how to implement key metrics of success for operating services in an enterprise,
• understand Kubernetes, Docker, container images, and container security,
• are familiar with cloud-native concepts and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Landscape,
• have experience with at least one cloud provider and its underlying container services:

  • Amazon Web Services

  • Microsoft Azure

  • Google Cloud

• have hands-on experience with at least one Kubernetes distribution:

  • Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

  • Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

  • Rancher / Rancher Kubernetes Engine (RKE) / K3s

  • Red Hat OpenShift

  • VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG)

  • Mirantis Kubernetes Engine

  • Nutanix Karbon

  • Rafay

• have working knowledge of at least one service mesh technology:

  • Istio

  • Linkerd

  • Kong Mesh / Kong Kuma

  • HashiCorp Consul Connect

  • AWS App Mesh

  • OpenShift Service Mesh (Red Hat)

  • Open Service Mesh (OSM)

• demonstrate knowledge of at least one Kubernetes security tool:

  • Aqua Platform / Container Security / Kubernetes Security / Dynamic Threat Analysis

  • Prisma Compute (previously Twistlock)

  • Qualys Container Security

  • Snyk Cloud Native Application Security (CNAS)

  • StackRox Kubernetes Security Platform

  • Sysdig Secure

• demonstrate knowledge of at least one container image scanning tool:

  • Anchore

  • Aqua Security / Trivy

  • Clair

  • Dagda

  • Falco

  • JFrog Xray

  • Qualys Container Security

  • Snyk Container

• have working knowledge of at least one container registry:

  • Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR)

  • Azure Container Registry (ACR)

  • GitLab Container Registry

  • Google Cloud Container Registry

  • Harbor

  • JFrog Container Registry

• understand typical Kubernetes resources and how to create manifests defining them:

  • ConfigMap

  • DaemonSet

  • Deployment

  • Ingress

  • PersistentVolume (PV)

  • PersistentVolumeClaim (PVC)

  • Pod

  • ReplicaSet

  • Secret

  • Service

  • StatefulSet

• have working knowledge of at least one Container Network Interface (CNI) driver:

  • Amazon VPC CNI

  • Azure CNI

  • Calico

  • Canal

  • Cilium

  • Flannel

  • GKE CNI

  • Weave

• have working knowledge of at least one Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver:

  • AWS Elastic Block Storage (EBS)

  • AWS Elastic File System (EFS)

  • AWS FSx for Lustre (FSX)

  • Azure Disk

  • Azure File

  • CephFS

  • Ceph RBD

  • GCE Persistent Disk

  • Google Cloud Filestore

  • Google Cloud Storage

  • GlusterFS

  • Longhorn

  • Minio

  • NetApp

  • Nutanix

  • OpenEBS

  • Portworx

  • Pure Storage CSI

  • Scaleway CSI

  • vSphere

• are familiar with cloud networking concepts, including best-practices networking models and security,
• understand microservice architecture and best practices,
• have working knowledge of creating a Dockerfile to build an OCI-compliant Docker / container image,
• are able to automate processes using Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) tools:

  • Airflow

  • Argo CD

  • AWS CodePipeline

  • Azure DevOps

  • CircleCI

  • Codefresh

  • Concourse

  • Flux CD / Flagger

  • GitHub Actions

  • GitLab

  • Harness

  • Jenkins / Jenkins X

  • Spinnaker

  • Tekton

  • Travis CI

• understand observability in Kubernetes using three or more tools from the following list:

  • Prometheus

  • Grafana

  • Alertmanager

  • Elasticsearch

  • Fluentd / Fluent Bit

  • Kibana

  • AppDynamics

  • Datadog

  • Dynatrace

  • New Relic One

  • Splunk

  • Sumo Logic

• have working knowledge of all the following command line interface (CLI) tools:

  • Git

  • Helm

  • Ubectl

• possess expert working knowledge of YAML syntax,
• possess Intimate diagramming skills using one or more of the following tools:

  • Coggle

  • Creately

  • draw.io / diagrams.net

  • Lucidchart

  • Microsoft Visio

  • Miro

  • OmniGraffle

• demonstrate the ability to empathize with customers and respectfully engage stakeholders to align on goals, business objectives, timelines, and execution plan,
• have working knowledge of the following:

  • Python

  • Golang / Go

  • Bash

  • HashiCorp Terraform / HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL)

  • Kubernetes Operators

  • HashiCorp Vault

  • Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA)

  • Blue/green deployments, canary deployments

  • Automated testing (ex: unit testing, integration testing, smoke testing)

• worked in a highly-regulated, highly-secure industry:

  • SOC2

  • Information Security Policy (ISP) Controls.

By joining us you gain:

• work flexibility - hybrid working model, flexible start of the day, workation, sabbatical leave,
• development and upskilling - our full support during onboarding process, mentoring from experienced colleagues, training sessions, workshops, certification co/financed by PwC and conversations with native speaker,
• wide medical and wellbeing program - medical care package (incl. dental care, freedom of treatment, physiotherapy), coaching, mindfulness, psychological support, education through dedicated webinars and workshops, financial and legal counseling, 
• possibility to create your individual benefits package (a.o. lunch pass, insurance packages, concierge, veterinary package for a pet, massages) and access to a cafeteria - vouchers, discounts on IT equipment and car purchase,
• 3 paid hours for volunteering per month,  
• additional paid Birthday Day off,
• and when you start enjoying PwC as much as we do, you may get a bonus in exchange for recommending your friend to work with us.

Recruitment process:

In the first step of the recruitment process, you will have the opportunity to talk to our Recruiter on a short HR screening call.

During the next stages, you will have the opportunity to meet other people from the team, including your future Manager - check us out on LinkedIn and see what we have to say!

With any queries please contact pl_ITrecruitment@pwc.com with job title in the subject.