About Dechen Consulting Group (DCG)
Dechen Consulting Group (DCG) is a rapidly expanding, innovative IT Professional Services and Management Consulting company with a track record of more than twenty-five years in delivering skilled professionals to our clients across diverse sectors.
Job Opportunity
We are currently seeking a professional for a W2 contract opportunity in Dearborn, MI. This role has the potential to extend over multiple years, with the chance to transition to a direct hire position with our client. We provide healthcare, vacation, relocation assistance, and visa sponsorship / transfer. This is a W2 position, not C2C. THIRD PARTIES NEED NOT APPLY. This role offers excellent prospects for career progression!
Position Description
Employees in this job function are responsible for designing, building, and deploying cloud-based infrastructure and managed services to achieve scalability, flexibility, and cost efficiencies for private and public cloud systems that support the business. They are focused on creating opinionated cloud environments and systems like Storage as a Service, Infrastructure as a Service, etc., that form building blocks used by other enterprise and product teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Designing and deploying various opinionated cloud environments and platforms aligned with enterprise architecture and security requirements while meeting the business-critical needs of internal customers.
- Collaborate with enterprise architect, security teams, solution architects, product teams, etc., to design, build, and deploy cloud infrastructure solutions to meet the company's needs for scalability, availability, performance, and security.
- Monitor system usage to predict future needs, ensuring that the organization scales its IT resources appropriately.
- Develop automation scripts and IaC templates for configuring and provisioning complex cloud resources including identity services, virtual private cloud, gateways, SSL, Kubernetes clusters, NoSQL data stores, etc.
- Integrate enterprise security and disaster recovery policies in cloud infrastructure configurations, ensuring data protection and data retention practices comply with industry regulations.
- Design, implement and optimize cloud-based storage solutions ensuring data availability, security, and cost efficiency.
- Assist in the execution of technology strategy and implementation of engineering roadmaps, including optimizing cloud expenditure, maximizing resource usage, and ensuring high availability across required geographic regions.
- Evaluate new and emerging cloud technologies for incorporation into existing systems, assist in modernization efforts to prioritize and execute migrations of on-prem services to cloud systems.
Skills Required
AWS : Proficiency in defining, deploying, and managing a complete application infrastructure in AWS using Terraform. This includes writing modular Terraform configurations, managing IAM roles, configuring S3 buckets, deploying RDS instances, setting up Load Balancers, and implementing Terraform state management best practices.Kubernetes : Experience in provisioning Kubernetes clusters, administering and troubleshooting clusters, understanding core Kubernetes concepts, and familiarity with common Kubernetes add-ons.Skills Preferred
GCP : Experience in provisioning and managing GCP resources programmatically using tools like Terraform, Google Cloud Deployment Manager, or gcloud CLI scripting.Python : Ability to write production-grade automation for cloud operations, build small tools / services, package code, and integrate with CI / CD.Experience Required
Engineer 3 Exp : Practical experience in 2 coding languages or advanced practice in 1 language with 6 years in IT; 4 years in development.
Education Required
Bachelor's Degree
Additional Information
POSITION IS HYBRID
Areas of Specialization
We are seeking deep expertise in one or more of the following areas :
AWS Expertise : Deep expertise in the AWS ecosystem, including networking, IAM, cost optimization, and leveraging AWS managed services.Kubernetes Administration : Knowledge of provisioning, managing, securing, and scaling Kubernetes clusters.CI / CD & GitOps : Expertise in designing, building, and managing complex CI / CD pipelines.Cloud Security : Focus on securing cloud infrastructure with knowledge of PKI, IAM policies, secret management, and network security.Observability & SRE : Passion for metrics, logging, and tracing with experience in modern observability stacks and applying SRE principles.Developer Tooling & Automation : Experience in writing code to solve operational problems and building internal tools to improve the developer experience.We are a people-focused company with a deep emphasis on family values and look forward to working with you.