Description:
The Senior Cloud Engineer II is responsible for working with cross-functional teams to design, test, expand, implement, monitor, and document cloud services utilized in the product. This role will drive improvement projects around deployment, security, and performance while supporting basic engineering tasks including scripting, automation, and code reviews.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Provides support to the Engineering teams, with a high attention to detail
- Researches, analyzes, and documents findings
- May influence others within the DevOps team through the explanation of facts, policies, and practices
- Designs, builds, and delivers cloud computing solutions, hosted services, and underlying software infrastructure
- Designs and architects solutions for existing client-facing applications as they are moved into cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
- Supports and troubleshoots scalability, high availability, performance, monitoring, backup, and restorations of different environments
- Assists with deployment, automation, and security of cloud servers hosting our applications
- Reviews, documents, and implements security policies on cloud infrastructure
- Ensures required pro-active diagnostics and monitoring of cloud infrastructure are in place
- Architects automation solutions for reduction of costs and efficiencies improvement
- Maintains awareness of PaaS, LaaS, and related technology trends and how trends impact product.
Knowledge, Skills, and/or Abilities Required:
- Ability to work independently on projects and processes with general supervision
- Practical knowledge of applicable work area
- Ability to situationally adapt and understand new technology/processes as per business requirement
- Infrastructure as code experience
- CI / CD pipeline experience
- Monitoring / observability / alerting experience
- Comfortable with scripting (PowerShell etc.)
- Knowledge of Cloud Infrastructure Environments (Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, etc.)
- Knowledge of programming and scripting languages (Python, Terraform, Cloud Formation)
- Knowledge of System Administration for both Linux and Windows based servers
- Ability to work constructively and independently under stress and pressure in a fast paced, multi-tasking environment
- Ability to interact positively and openly with colleagues and external business contacts, with strong verbal and written communication skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Strong technical skills including networking, security, and database design
- Knowledge of relevant software development tools including version control, build processes, debuggers, and test frameworks
- Strong knowledge of Cloud infrastructure including deployment and monitoring of available, scalable, secure environments.
Educational/Vocational/Previous Experience Recommendations:
- Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent business experience
- 4+ years of relevant experience
- Preferred: Experience in Automation architecture development and maintenance