Cloud Operation Engineer

Description

JOB SUMMARY

This job is a strong advocate of cloud technology and engineering support necessary to drive the organization's next-generation technologies.

The intermediate level incumbent works to adopt, expand, maintain, and optimize cloud usage across the organization through engineering support of cloud technologies and through automation builds and related technologies.

The incumbent owns support and engineering of cloud solutions and must stay current with new cloud offerings to continue to produce expected corporate results.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Engineer & implement cloud-based technical architectures, migration approaches, deployment of cloud resources and application optimizations that utilize automation technologies, sound redundant solutions and enable business objectives.
• Works to define cloud resource procurement and performance patterns throughmonitoring and tracking of usage and trends to optimize cloud spend & resource efficiency.
• Proposes ideas, designs, and solutions to senior or lead engineers to further cloud service utilization and optimization.
• Develops automation scripts and other repeatable patterns to enable application and service teams to deploy software and services into cloud environments.
• Performs research and analysis required for new cloud deployment proposals, existing cloud service modification, and other new cloud adoption to ultimately provide sound recommendations on best course of action.
• Level 2 Incident, problem and change management as it pertains to the responsibilities of the cloud operations engineering team.
• Develop documentation to support operations process, procedures and implementations.
• Other duties as assigned or requested.

QUALIFICATIONS

Required

• Bachelor's Degree in Cloud Computing, Computer & Information Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, Information Technology, or closely related discipline
• 3 years with at least two modern programming languages (Java, JavaScript, BASH, PowerShell etc.)
• Experience doing operational support of at least one of the following cloud service providers for an organization : Google Cloud Platform, Azure or Amazon Web Services.

Preferred

• Experience producing code that is fault-tolerant, efficient, and maintainable
• Experience designing, building, and deploying scalable cloud-based solution architectures through automation tools like Terraform or Ansible for example and versioning control via GitLab or similar tools.
• Experience with standard IT security practices such as identity and access management, data protection, encryption, certificate and key management
• Knowledge of containerization and container orchestration technologies such as Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).

LICENSES or CERTIFICATIONS

Required

GCP, AWS, Azure or other Cloud Service Certification

Preferred

Terraform, Ansible or other, similar tool certification

KEY SKILLS

• Demonstrates ability to achieve stretch goals in a highly innovative and fast-paced environment.
• Ability to speak and write English fluently and idiomatically.
• Strong scripting experience along with interest and ability to learn other programming languages as needed.
• Gitlab or other versioning control tools and processes.
• Kubernetes or other Container orchestration technologies
• Terraform, Ansible, or other automation technologies
• Knowledge of infrastructure concepts, such as OS, Virtualization or Networking

Pay Range Minimum : $67,500.00

$67,500.00

Pay Range Maximum : $124,800.00

$124,800.00

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