Cloud Engineer

Level 3
Job Description:

Key Points
- AWS Public Cloud exposure
- Familiarity with cloud architectures and technologies

Position Summary:
This position would work within the cloud engineering organization to assist with the design and implementation our cloud strategy. This position would have specific focus on cloud related project and the day-to-day tasks critical to deploying cloud solutions.

Technical Requirements – Describe the technical knowledge and experience required to accomplish the job duties and responsibilities:
• 5 years of IT Infrastructure or Application development experience
• Working knowledge public cloud architectures and services. AWS experience a big plus.
• Demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and how best to overcome technical hurdles.
• Hands-on experience with design, development, and deployment of business software at scale in AWS. In addition, hands-on experience with technology infrastructure, network, compute, storage, and virtualization a plus.
• Proven experience with software development life cycle (SDLC) and agile/iterative methodologies required.
• Integration of cloud services with on-premises technologies from Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, HP, SAP etc.
• Experience with IT compliance and risk management requirements (e.g., security, privacy, SOX, HIPAA etc.) Familiar with IT audit related tasks and responses.
• Willingness to challenge the status quo and dig deep into legacy technology, processes, and practices to understand how to transform and move them forward.
• Experience planning and migrating traditional on-prem architectures to public cloud.

Experience/Educational Requirements:
BS/BA Preferred or equivalent experience.

Special Skills:
• Proven track record of implementing AWS services in a variety of distributed computing environments.
• Experience with documenting cloud workloads including runbooks and ‘how to’ documents.
• Experience with Jira/Confluence a plus.
• Experience working with Agile collaboration and project management tooling (Jira, Confluence, and Kanban).
• Experience with Agile methodologies including Kanban and DevOps software development.
• Experience with highly available and fault-tolerant and web-scale software deployments.
• Infrastructure automation through DevOps scripting (e.g., Terraform, Python, TFCB and GitHub)
• Configuration management using Ansible or Puppet.
• Strong practical Linux systems administration skills in a Cloud or Virtualized environment.
• Willingness to be a “tech evangelist” to help drive adoption and acceptance of new patterns and ways to solve problems.
• Understanding of Continuous Integration - Continuous Deployment (CI-CD) methodologies (Bamboo, Jenkins).
• Familiar with monitoring tools and strategies.
• Strong configuration management tooling knowledge.
• Comfortable with version control systems and pipelines (Bitbucket, GitHub, etc.)
• Excellent planning, documentation, and communication skills.