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