Cloud Engineer

Sr. Cloud Engineer

Primary Objective:

Cloud computing continues to allow us to modernize and consolidate IT infrastructure, automate workloads, and pursue next-generation innovation. To continue this transformation, were seeking an experienced Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud engineer with expertise in the strategy, design, development, and implementation of large-scale projects in the cloud. The ideal candidate is experienced in cloud-based tech, with a firm grasp of emerging technologies, platforms, and applications, and ability to customize them to help our business become more secure and efficient. Extensive knowledge of cloud maintenance, experience managing staff, and advanced industry knowledge is key to keeping us on the cutting edge. From day one, you'll have an immediate impact on the day-to-day efficiency of our IT operations, and an ongoing impact on our overall growth.

As a key member of the Cloud Infrastructure team, the AWS Cloud Engineer will be charged with designing, building and migrating applications, software, and services on the AWS platform, ensuring solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud. This person will evangelize and educate customers on the value proposition of AWS as well and aid in creating world-class solutions built on AWS.

Key Responsibilities

• Work in tandem with our engineering team to identify and implement the most optimal cloud-based solutions for the company
• Define and document best practices and strategies regarding application deployment and infrastructure maintenance
• Provide guidance, thought leadership, and mentorship to development teams to build cloud competencies
• Ensure application performance, uptime, and scale, maintaining high standards of code quality and thoughtful design
• Managing cloud environments in accordance with company security guidelines
• Develop and implement technical efforts to design, build, and deploy AWS applications following the direction of lead architects, including large-scale data processing, computationally intensive statistical modeling, and advanced analytics
• Troubleshoot incidents, identify root cause, fix and document problems, and implement preventive measures
• Educate teams on the implementation of new cloud-based initiatives, providing associated training as required
• Employ exceptional problem-solving skills, with the ability to see and solve issues before they affect business productivity
• Plan, Configure, Deploy and Operate a cloud solution
• Configure access and security.
• Ensure Performance standards by configuring Auto-Scaling Solution to meet varying Load requirements.
• Automating the build and configuration of IaaS based solutions in Google Cloud Platform
• Deliver Proof of Concepts for new Solutions on Cloud
• Good written/Oral Communication, Presentation, Interactive skills with team across geography.
• Works well under pressure and meets deadline.
• Flexible to work either independently or with team.
• Architecting/operating innovative solutions built on AWS
• Design and Implement AWS architectures and environments
• Play a key role in migrating and transforming legacy solutions to the cloud
• Design Native Cloud Application Architectures and optimize applications for AWS

Key Qualifications and Skills

• Bachelors degree in computer science, information technology, or mathematics
• 3+ years of experience architecting, designing, migrating, and implementing cloud solutions on AWS platforms
• Understanding of and experience with the five pillars of a well-architected framework
• Experience in several of the following areas: database architecture, ETL, business intelligence, big data, machine learning, advanced analytics
• Proven ability to collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams of business analysts, developers, data scientists, and subject matter experts

• 'Hands-on' AWS implementation experience across a broad range of AWS services.
• Must have in depth AWS development experience (Containerization - Docker, Amazon EKS, Lambda, EC2, S3, Amazon DocumentDB, PostgreSQL)
• Strong knowledge of DevOps and CI/CD pipeline (GitHub, Jenkins, Artifactory)
• Scripting capability and the ability to develop AWS environments as code
• Hands-on AWS experience with at least 3 implementations (preferred in an Enterprise scale environment)
• Experience with core AWS platform architecture, including areas such as: Organizations, Account Design, VPC, Subnet, segmentation strategies.
• Backup and Disaster Recovery approach and design
• Environment and application automation
• CloudFormation and third-party automation approach/strategy
• Network connectivity, Direct Connect and VPN
• AWS Cost Management and Optimization
• Experienced in developing Web Services with Python, JSON
• Skilled experience in Python libraries (NumPy, Pandas dataframe)
• Public cloud automaton tooling and scripting experience CFn, Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Jenkins.
• Familiar with Encryption, Logging, and Privacy/Security Protocols (e.g. TLS 1.2, ELK stack)
• Good knowledge of REST/SOAP/JSON web service API implementation.
• Experienced in developing test plan, test cases, baselines, and conducting end-to-end testing.
• Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with executives, IT Management, and developers
• Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly
• EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE
• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science and 5+ years relevant experience.