Senior Cloud Engineer

Technical Design, Development & Problem Solving:

• Provide recommendations on architectural changes to improve efficiency, reliability, and performance and to reduce cost
• Explore and recommend new technologies/services. Articulate the advantages of various solution options
• Define platform software engineering standards and ensure compliance
• Ability to independently develop algorithms and deliver results in production environments at scale.
• Ability to take on proof of concepts to prove new technologies
• Problem solves with little to no guidance
• Collaborate with Cloud/DevOps engineers to solve technical and design problems
• Conduct and oversee design & code reviews 

Execution & Delivery:

• Ability to independently execute complex, long-term projects
• Understand context of the work rather than just focusing on what is assigned.
• Excellent communicator and collaborates well with people inside the team and in other organizations
• Innovate and is open to ideas to improve efficiency and works with the team to pivot if necessary.
• Write clean, high-performance, well tested infrastructure code with a focus on reusability and automation (e.g. Ansible, Python, Terraform etc...)

Software Engineering Excellence:

• Responsible for code excellence and quality of the project being assigned
• Research on tools being used by the department and provide suggestions for improvements
• Creates reusable code frameworks or example projects to aid developers on the team.
• Advocates and leads initiatives for enhancing our testing frameworks

Leadership

• Mentor core developers
• Partner with business stakeholders and product managers to define project timelines and deliverable at each project stage.
• Awareness and involvement in identifying the resources which would be required for project delivery.
• Being able to identify resources from other departments.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• 3+ Years of experience in AWS/Azure cloud
• 5+ years in architecting and implementing fully automated, secure, reliable, scalable & resilient multi-cloud/hybrid-cloud solution
• History of developing scripts to automate infrastructure tasks
• Experience with network infrastructure skills (e.g. setting up and managing firewalls, WAFs, network segregation, VPNs and network ACLs)
• Seasoned Infrastructure as Code developer (Terraform is strongly preferred)
• Experience with Identity and Access Management
• Practical experience with version control systems (Git is preferred)
• Production level experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes)
• Good scripting skills (e.g. Bash, Python)
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Able to thrive in a collaborative and cross-functional environment
• Familiar with Agile methodology concepts

Nice to have:

• Subject matter expert in Cloud Security and/or Cloud Networking
• AWS/Azure certification preferably at professional level
• Experience with DevOps concepts, tools (e.g. CI/CD, Jenkins, Artifactory, Helm, Ansible, etc.) and emerging technologies
• Good understanding of REST API concepts
• Experience with GitHub and GitHub Actions