Senior Cloud Engineer
Skills and Requirements:
- 5+ years delivering cloud solution designs, installation, and configuration using automation tools, such as Terraform, Rundeck, Jenkins, and Direct Connect service providers.
- 5+ years experience implementing a production IaaS or SaaS environment
- Demonstrated experience with AWS services such as IAM, EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, VPC, Beanstalk and provided highly-available, secure, and reliable services
- Advanced application performance monitoring, system tuning, and cost optimization
- Certified AWS Solutions Architect or equivalent
Responsibilities:
- Provide expert level design and operational best practices for AWS
- Own critical aspects of our technology deployment pipeline in areas requiring process automation, end to end infrastructure readiness, monitoring, and security
- Development of scripts to automate and facilitate integration between enterprise systems in and out of the cloud
- Ensure alignment between security architecture frameworks, standards, and overall IT strategy
- Support the migration of applications to the cloud infrastructure and assist in the analysis, tuning, and re-architecture when necessary to ensure adherence to business requirements and milestones
- Troubleshoot issues across the stack (hardware, network, firewall, applications, database, storage) and assist engineers, developers, and operations teams to resolve advanced system issues
- Guide efforts across internal teams to analyze, design, and add efficiency to the delivery of managed services to internal and external customers
- Participate in the design and improvement of Continuous Integration (CI) of systems and ensure adherence to CI principles
- As a subject matter, expert on cloud technologies mentor and assist group members in learning these technologies
- Perform terraform code reviews to ensure best practices are adhered to
- Contribute using Agile/Scrum framework
- Participate in off-hours maintenance and escalations
- Strong verbal and written communication skills with demonstrated technical leadership
Preferred Qualifications:
- Previous hands-on cloud migration experience
- Microsoft technologies (Windows Server 2016/12 and SQL)
- Scripting experience (e.g. Powershell, Python)
- Understanding of Networking and Storage principals