Job Description :
Cloud Engineer
The job of Cloud Engineer, will be a core member of a technical team that''s responsible for designing, building and supporting cloud infrastructure and platform for Enterprise Cloud Services.
The successful applicant will be part of a small, fast, and integrated team. The role requires a comprehensive understanding of cloud service provider capabilities – primarily Amazon Web Services. The role''s primary focus is to construct and manage cloud service provider environments as per various business requirements and security guidelines. This role will ensure that these enterprise''s cloud environments are setup and managed efficiently for higher availability and cost effectiveness.
Additional responsibilities will be team cross-training and working with other parts of the organization to requirements.
Core Responsibilities:
1. Cloud Development: 50%
Implement and optimize cloud infrastructure including initial and ongoing configuration of related
automation, notifications, and reporting capabilities.
Implement and maintain cloud security controls (identity and access management, risk and
compliance, etc.
Implement and maintain cloud infrastructure for appropriate disaster recovery, high availability,
fail over, and/or redundancy for cloud deployed applications.
Reverse engineer and document existing AWS infrastructure
3. Provide oral and written status reports to IT management and customer support:10%
Strong analytical, interpersonal and verbal communication skills are necessary due to the
dynamic nature of collaborations with customers, vendors, and other teams, solving complex
system problems together.
Work with application teams to migrate Legacy/On-Prem applications to cloud environments.
Work with Information Security, Infrastructure Services, and Application Development
organizations to choose appropriate technology solutions and facilitate complete integration into
cloud environments.
Develop and refine standards in partnership with Information
Requirements:
BA/BS Required
Minimum 5 years experience with Enterprise Linux operating system administration
Minimum 5 years experience with Windows Server operating system administration
Minimum 5 years experience with Cloud Service Providers (AWS)
Minimum 5 years experience managing full stack applications
Minimum 5 years experience in enterprise environments
Bachelor degree or equivalent experience preferred
Knowledge of:
Amazon Web Services certification preferred.
Implement and evolve many security policies and controls (e.g. CIS, malware, anti-virus, secret management) using aws services
Secure development and integration of DevOps tooling (Jenkins, GitHub Enterprise, AWS CloudFormation, workflows, vendor SaaS, etc
Deploying and use of configuration management tools (Chef, Ansible, SaltStack, etc
Deploying, securing, and maintaining (operationalizing) web application stacks (LAMP, J2EE etc
o Expertise in web servers (Apache, NGINX, IIS, etc
o Expertise in databases and other storage systems (MySQL, MSSQL, Oracle, NFS, CIFS, Redis, ELK, etc
o Expertise in languages and language runtimes (PHP, Java, .NET, Node.js, etc
Deploying and administering of hardened Linux and Windows servers
Experience in large secure heterogeneous server and network infrastructure (DNS, load balancers, switches, etc
Skill In:
- Strong interpersonal skills are required. Ability to work effectively with team members, clients and other areas of the IT environment
- Strong written and oral communications
- Excellent problem solving abilities, strong decision making skills and make sound judgment decisions.
Ability To:
- Work effectively with team members, clients and other areas of IT
- Handle multiple tasks and be flexible in a fast paced environment
- Deliver on time