Job Description/Summary:
Cloud Platform Engineer
Location: Remote
Client -The Federal Reserve System
ONLY USC
Note - THE FED RESERVE’S BACKGROUND CHECK TAKES ~3 WEEKS. THE CANDIDATE CANNOT START UNTIL IT IS COMPLETED; YOU MUST EXPLAIN THIS DURING THE PREQUALIFICATION PROCESS
The Platform Engineer - Cloud performs a critical role delivering the core capabilities and features of a strategic cloud platform. This position will be responsible for the delivery of platform enablers including the design, build, security, and operationalization of reusable cloud platform components in support of Financial Services users and stakeholders. The Platform Engineer - Cloud role will also encompass developing, building, administering, and deploying self-service tools that enable Application Delivery Teams within Client Financial Services to build, deploy, and operate applications on the cloud platform. They are expected to maintain a deep technical knowledge of the AWS ecosystem and the capabilities and tools required to create platform patterns and technical best-practices with the goal of increasing adoption, operational efficiency, and realized business value. They will help drive decisions on the correct usage of cloud resources, troubleshoot performance issues, and ensure the highest level of reliability for the platform by tuning the environment for maximum scalability, cost efficiency, and security. This position does not have direct reports.
Principle Duties and Responsibilities:
Platform Lifecycle
Drive design, engineering, implementation, and configuration of platform services to support overall enterprise patterns and reenforcing best practices.
Develop patterns for common platform needs (e.g. logging, monitoring, alerting, backup, encryption, tooling, etc.) across all layers of the platform and supporting services.
Works with business and technology partners to identify, define, interpret, and clarify scope of the data management platform integrations.
Partner with Information Security representatives to develop, implement and/or execute security configurations and controls.
Apply and integrate emerging technology trends to new and existing platform enablers.
Support and refine the utilization strategy for the platform and enhance its overall architecture, security, performance, and financial aspects.
Contribute to platform, product, and architectural roadmaps.
Design Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment pipelines to enable code releases
Enable continuous monitoring to resolve issues
Utilize platform metrics to automate scale and resilient recovery
Ensuring the platform is built, deployed, configured, managed, and monitored correctly to support the business
Platform Administration
Performs development of common platform components and advanced configuration activities in the cloud platform.
Creates integrations between the cloud platform and other FRS enterprise services and 3 rd party tools.
Manages the core security model configurations in accordance with information security.
Develop comprehensive monitoring solutions to provide full visibility to the different platform components
Automate design patterns as Infrastructure-as -Code (IaC) and implement and test the automation
Ability to build, test and deploy Docker images
Operational Excellence
Provide support for deployed products and services by being a trusted advisor to product delivery teams helping identify cloud problems and guiding issue resolution.
Develops and maintains automation for deployments to reduce manual processes and improve efficiencies across cloud environments.
Leads solution design discussions, develops work effort estimates for implementation and presents solutions.
Drafts and maintains solution documentation for platform components, integrations, and common use patterns to meet all architectural, security and operational requirements as defined by the larger Client System.
Participate in code reviews by receiving and providing feedback on code produced
Perform well given a high level of independence and autonomy and will establish a cadence of on-time delivery with high-quality work.
Qualifications:
This hands-on Platform Engineer - Cloud will require a wide variety of capabilities and strengths which include:
Bachelor's degree or equivalent work-related experience
4-5 years of Cloud Engineering experience (AWS Preferred)
Experience building and delivering highly available platform solutions, all while ensuring a high level of quality leveraging Terraform
Experience integrating platform with 3 rd party solutions (e.g. from cloud to on-prem and vice-versa, etc.)
Experience with engineering solutions across a heterogeneous landscape of on-prem datacenters, cloud and SaaS environments
Experience and solid understanding of complex, multi-region, highly available state-less and state-full deployments
Experience with AWS Landing Zone and/or AWS Control Tower
Demonstrable experience with scripting & programming languages (e.g. Python, Ruby, Bash, PowerShell, Ansible, JavaScript, JSON, YAML, etc.)
Demonstrable experience with cloud automation tooling and Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, CDK, etc.) – Terraform preferred
Demonstrable experience using and configuring Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery tools (e.g GitLab, Jenkins, Concourse)
Experience building infrastructure solutions leveraging containers/ container orchestration, including tools such as Kubernetes, Docker, Lambda, and serverless deployments
Advanced experience with AWS load balancers, S3, CloudFront, etc.
Working knowledge of configuration management tools and techniques e.g including Ansible, Chef, Puppet, SaltStack
Working knowledge of application, data, and infrastructure architecture discipline
Experience with Secret Management (AWS Secrets Manager, HashiCorp Vault)
Solid understanding of Cloud Security (OAuth, OIDC)
Strong knowledge and understanding of microservice based architectures, APIs, etc.
Experience in a multi-account AWS environment is a plus
Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery models including Blue/Green and Canary release models is a plus
Experience with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) highly preferred, however experience leveraging other Agile Methodologies will still be considered.
Proven ability to manage one's time and prioritize work based on risk and critical need
Excellent interpersonal, attention to detail, and oral and written communication skills.
Proven, hands on, full stack application development experience
Currently holds a certification that demonstrates technical knowledge with Amazon Web Services (AWS) (e.g. AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified SysOps Administrator or comparable) is preferred
Cloud Platform Engineer
At least 4-5 year's experience
Terraform for Infrastructure automation
Experienced in Blue/Green deployment
Rehydration events
AWS
Gitlab
Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes
ECS
Node clustering side car
Scripting languages: Ansible is required.
Python
Docker
Microservices
Certifications are highly desired like:
AWS Certified Developer, AWS Certified Engineer, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer