Core Proficiencies
- AWS
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) – Terraform / Cloud formation
- Config Management – chef / puppet
- Coding – Python or other languages
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; secondarily Azure. The role’s primary focus is to construct and manage cloud service provider environments as per various business requirements and security guidelines.
Core Responsibilities:
Cloud Development: 40%
- 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.
Cloud Services Support 50%
- Identify and troubleshoot cloud service events and issues as well as work with cloud service providers to efficiently solve issues or implement workarounds.
- Plan and lead an engagement with application teams adopting cloud solutions.
- Understands software engineering practices and the impact they have on efficient and effective use of DevOps and cloud solutions.
- Clearly articulates and explains complex concepts and technologies to a non-technical audience
- Adapt to rapidly evolving environment and frequent transitions of technologies and teams.
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.
- 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 scripting/programming languages (Python, Ruby, Java, Javascript, etc.)
- Minimum 5 years experience with Cloud Service Providers (Amazon Web Services, Azure, Google Cloud Platform)
- Minimum 5 years experience with Hypervisors
- Minimum 5 years experience managing full stack applications
- Minimum 5 years experience in enterprise environments
- Bachelor degree or equivalent experience preferred