Cloud Engineer

Job Summary

• Responsible for the logical design, sizing, interoperability, scaling, and security aspects definition of the solution.
• Manage cloud environments in accordance with company security guidelines.
• Analyze, optimize, implement, and maintain Multi-Platform cloud based back-end computing environment.
• Implement and maintain security technologies and sound engineering design for all cloud deployments.
• Research, audit, test, and set standards for AWS and Azure cloud deployment frameworks and best practices to ensure compatibility and functionality in the enterprise.
• Independently develop reference materials (network diagrams, installation documentation, etc.) for supported cloud technologies to be used for both online and in-person training of other technical staff. Lead the deployment and operation of C2S Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) , RDS, EMR, LAMBDA, VPC, S3, and other cloud related infrastructure components.
• Report on the health of the cloud services to leadership, providing detailed information around both lifecycle and cost management.
• Support project execution activities from implementation through operational readiness.
• Make recommendations for improvements to security, scalability, manageability, and performance across a wide variety of cloud network, storage, and compute technologies.
• Formulate detailed network, storage, and compute design specifications for stable and secure computing operations in a dynamic cloud-based environment.
• Liaise with customers, architecture leadership and technical teams, including systems and network administrators, security engineers, and IT Support teams.
• Build and configure build plans, code pipelines and create automated solutions that can be frame worked and re-used.
• Manage assigned projects and meet deadlines with minimal supervision from Supervisor and/or Manager.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What are we looking for

• Must possess a strong understanding of IT technology including hardware and software with a holistic E2E focus of applications and services architecture
• Must have 5+ years IT background
• 3+ years of Cloud infrastructure and engineering experience including virtualization, cloud, server, storage, and networking (VMWare, Openstack, Openshift, Kubertenes, dockers, etc.)
• Experience in supporting cloud-based applications environments with distributed enterprise systems and developing implementation standards
• Knowledge of DevOps, SDLC, containers, microservices and APIs design
• Knowledge of cloud Computing, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS
• Knowledge of cloud orchestration and monitoring technology
• Experience in AWS, Azure, .Net, ITSM, IT operations and programming skills is a plus
• Must have excellent communication skills and ability to work individually, within a team and partner with other business groups
• Experience in Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity initiatives
• Must have ability to develop policies & procedures, risk assessment and communicate effectively at C level
• BS/BA degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• TOGAF, AWS, Infrastructure and Cloud certifications is a plus