Senior Cloud Engineer

The Senior Cloud Engineer will be responsible for the management and migration of traditional infrastructure and supporting cloud based automated infrastructure. The Senior Cloud Engineer will champion the Cloud Management Platform, live and breathe Infrastructure Automation, support Hybrid Cloud Solutions, and demonstrates abilities of all Cloud-as-a-Service varieties: PaaS, IaaS, SaaS, etc. The Senior Cloud Engineer will build the next generation of Cloud infrastructure, becomes a key contributor supporting end-to-end private/public Cloud Automation IT and Infrastructure application delivery, including Infrastructure provisioning and integration with Continuous Integration/Continuous Development platforms, using existing and emerging technologies. The ideal incumbent will have existing experience moving infrastructure to the Cloud. 

Responsibilities:·      

• Develop solutions by understanding and studying systems flows, data usage and work processes      
• Assist in or independently create robust, scalable, and high-quality automation solutions for infrastructure defined software development, mentor other less experienced automation engineers       
• Provision and administer Infrastructure as a Service and Platform as a Service environments using best practices for enterprise customers across multiple public cloud offerings, e.g. AWS, GCP Cloud Services, and Azure       
• Architect, design, deploy, maintain, and lead the implementation of Cloud solutions using Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services (AWS), Office 365 and underlying technologies       
• Be responsible for analysis, recommendation of upgrades, design, changes, implementation, and maintenance of software       
• Be responsible for the maintenance and overall performance, security, and availability of the enterprise UNIX-Linux servers
• Develop and maintain shell scripts to automate systems and application processes and enhance systems functionality.      
• Create and manage roles, configuration policies, and system/software automation procedures       
• Collaborate with IT Operations to develop the process and tools needed to maintain and monitor operating baselines and configurations for the organization
• Provide 24 x 7 x 365 support through on-call rotation       
• Review technical specifications from clients and vendors to confirm adequacy, accuracy, and functionality of proposed solutions       
• Define benchmarks for tracking and measuring performance metrics       
• Experience developing standards in partnership with Engineering, Infrastructure Service, and Application Development to select appropriate technical solutions       
• Develop clear, concise installation, configuration procedures, runbooks and contributing to the maintenance of operational standards      
• Create automated approaches and scripts for system administration tasks where possible and appropriate       
• Provide advanced systems and intermediate network support "VPC, Security Groups, routing, ELB and EIP." as requested as part of troubleshooting analysis       
• Present technology concepts and terminology to technical peers and customers       
• Deep Windows Server expertise and some Linux knowledge 

Qualifications:·      

• Bachelor's degree in technical or business discipline, generally 10+ years of professional experience       
• At least 5 years of experience in designing, building, and deploying scalable cloud-based solution architectures on various cloud services       
• At least 5 years of experience in designing deployment strategies for cloud/virtualization and implementation best practices using IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS       
• AWS or GCP Cloud Architect certification will be a plus      
• Experience with containerization (i.e., Docker), EKS will be a plus       
• Minimum 5+ Experience supporting and managing AWS administration, automation       
• Ability to innovate new solutions strong interpersonal skills in areas such as facilitation, negotiation & the ability to work with internal and external customers      
• Minimum 10+ years of experience in maintaining operating system baselines, include the deployment to a large organization (over 1000 assets)   
• Experience with CI/CD devops tools like Jenkins, TeamCity or similar products