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Recent reports indicate that there are approximately four million Cloud Computing-associated jobs in the U.S. today. Estimates put the number of global positions at a whopping eighteen million jobs with close to half of those being in China.

With that in mind, Cloud Academy will spend time each week searching the Internet for some of the most promising opportunities in the Cloud Computing market. We will list the most exciting openings we find from all corners of the globe. As cloud computing providers continue to expand and improve their services, more enterprises will choose to jump on board, increasing demand yet further for cloud architects, cloud developers, and DevOps engineers.

And that means you.

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1. AWS Solutions Architect

AHEAD – Chicago, IL, US

Job Description:

The AWS DevOps Engineer will assist in leading a team that builds automation and services in order to make operating a massive large scale distributed system simple. This person will have a strong understanding of Software Development, Linux & Networking Technologies. In addition, the ideal candidate will have experience working as a software engineer. As an AWS DevOps engineer, you will excel at making the development software workflow and systems management integrate together and achieve their objectives of reliability and scalability. You will be an automation master and you are familiar with deployment tools such as Vagrant, Chef or Puppet, Saltstack, and Ansible.

2. Linux Administrator / Dev Ops

Conex Europe Ltd – London, GB

Job Description:

Linux Systems administrator wanted by this successful, well known expanding organisation. You’ll have experience in Linux sys admin/devops, including building and maintaining systems, and ideally, a customer-facing website. You’ll have good expertise with internal tools, a warehouse management system, call centre and internal office infrastructure. The company will be releasing a new platform based on Ruby on Rails and Sinatra, Mysql and Elasticsearch over Nginx and Passenger, their new current platform is over AWS, using many services from them including EC2, S3, Cloudfront, Cloudformation, RDS, Route53, VPC, Redshift, Lambda, etc. Some LAMP experience is needed for supporting Legacy infrastructure. They also use Chef and Github for configuration management. Fantastic opportunity for a good, experienced Linux Administrator/ Build Engingeer looking to improve their career to the next level. Conex Europe Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

3. Senior System Engineer

TomTom – The Netherlands, Amsterdam

Job Description:

As a member of this team, you are asked to deliver the following:

This is a team-orientated atmosphere and good communication skills are a must. You will improve your co-worker’s skill set with your knowledge and receive the same in return;

Whilst you’re successful, you’re always looking to improve. You keep a broader view in which technology, however cool, is only useful if it gets applied in simple but meaningful ways;

You actively contribute to putting tools in place to let other teams in the department and TomTom automate their work. We love elegant, maintenance free, solid tooling that runs efficiently. Our stack is based on Puppet, AWS, CloudStack, KVM, CentOS, and in-house gluing. For monitoring the parts we put in place, we use LogStash,Kibana, ElasticSearch and graphite.