Senior Cloud Engineer - AWS

Job Title

Senior Cloud Engineer - AWS

Department

Delivery

Reporting To

Delivery Team Lead

Subordinates

N/A

Job Summary

You are an experienced Cloud engineer with 5+ years of practical devops experience, who is comfortable automating and maintaining cloud infrastructures. You have demonstrated exposure and proven expertise and success with a range of tools and services, superb troubleshooting skills, passion for automating everything, and a sense of ownership. This position is fully remote.

Key Responsibilities

• Work with a team of Cloud Engineers to Architect, Build, and Implement redundant, resilient, scalable, self-sustaining, and self-healing cloud infrastructures in AWS. 
• Evangelize infra as code and automation as much as possible.  Use extensive knowledge of the DevOps tool set to enable that achievement. Ex: Terraform, Cloudformation, CircleCI, Gitlab, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes.  
• Work independently on projects with clients and stakeholders, get their requirements and keep them posted with the new features and improvements
• Help with troubleshooting issues with Oncall engineers
• Develop and improve current operational practices and procedures
• Ensure the implementation and maintaining of compliance and security practices in operational infrastructure

Secondary responsibilities

• Additionally, you will be responsible for training and mentoring junior Cloud engineers and new team members
• Besides client related project work, you will participate in internal demo/idea generation/blog posts in order to bring new initiatives and new tools to be implemented with our clients.

Internal Relations

External Relations

• Practice Lead, Project Manager, Cloud engineers

• Deal directly with clients through calls to assist them with their infrastructure solutions and troubleshooting

Required Qualifications

You have experience of 5+ years in Cloud engineering, and worked with the following Tech skills for 3 years at a minimum:

• Extensive knowledge and hands-on experience with solution architecting environments in AWS cloud space.  
• Extensive knowledge and hands-on experience with code pipeline design, development,  and managing CI/CD workflows and tools.
• Extensive knowledge and hands-on experience of core DevOps concepts (CI/CD, Agile & Automation)
• Extensive knowledge and hands-on experience of IP networking, VPN's, DNS, load balancing and firewall
• Extensive knowledge and hands-on experience with designing a secure infrastructure using current cloud native security standards
• Container orchestration knowledge is a must. 
• Solutioning experience is required. 
• 3+ years of using in Infrastructure as code (Terraform / Cloudformation/CDK)
• 3+ years of using container orchestration tools (Kubernetes/EKS or ECS, Rancher, etc.)
• 3+ years of using configuration management tools (AWS Config, Ansible)
• 3+ years of working in all things containers (Docker or Docker-Compose, etc.)
• 3+ years of using Scripting when necessary (Bash, Python, Ruby, Go or Javascript, etc.)
• 3+ years of using CI/CD tools (Github Actions, Bitbucket Pipelines, AWS Code Suite)

Interpersonal Skills

• Sense of Leadership
• Always collaborating to Team Work efforts (Teamwork savvy)
• A love for Documentation
• Ability to scope out requirements for tasks
• Provide guidance and directions frequently for project / client work (mentoring superhero)
• Have Knowledge and experienced with Agile practices
• Eager to learn and always get new certifications 
• The ability to communicate with stakeholders from different backgrounds

Work Location

Remote

Business Travel

Not necessary

Work Schedule

As Assigned

Flexitime

Flexible working hours