Senior Cloud Engineer

• Design, deploy and monitor infrastructure in public clouds (AWS, Azure) using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
• Understanding of Infrastructure as a Service, Infrastructure as Code and related concepts on public cloud.
• Experience in the management and development of Terraform deploying infrastructure and applications to AWS and Azure.
• Designing, orchestrating, implementing, and supporting secure and scalable infrastructure using IaaS, PaaS, and on-premise platforms.
• Designing and supporting core AWS platform architectures, including:
• Organizations, Account Design, VPC, Subnet, segmentation strategies
• Backup and Disaster Recovery approach and design
• Environment and application automation
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) automation approach/strategy

• Network connectivity, Direct Connect and VPN
• AWS Cost Management and Optimization
• Assist in Creation and management of gold images / AMI's
• Create IAM users and groups using Terraform
• Maintain availability of critical AWS Cloud infrastructure. To include configuration changes to AWS Cloud Services and shared services,
• Propose, develop and support automation solutions for source code deployment and configuration management.
• Managing cloud environments in accordance with company security guidelines
• Deploying and debugging cloud initiatives as needed in accordance with best practices throughout the development lifecycle.
• Educating teams on the implementation of new cloud-based initiatives, providing associated training as required.
• Configure multi-factor authentication on virtual and hardware devices
• Follows company Change Management processes for the implementation of changes in the Production network environment.
• Resolves Help Desk tickets related to areas of assigned responsibility. Uses advanced problem analysis skills to isolate and identify user problems, including issues escalated from other team members.
• Willingness to work overtime, weekends and irregular hours.

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related field, or equivalent work experience

• Ideal candidate will have at least 3 years of experience in systems engineering/infrastructure development, and at least 5 years of experience with cloud platforms.
• Certification(s) in administering and/or architecting cloud-based technologies is preferred e.g. AWS Certified SysOps Administrator, AWS Certified Solutions Architect.
• Solid experience with the following technologies preferred: IAM administration; EC2; S3; EBS; ELB; SES; Route 53; Lambda; AWS regions and Multi-AZ Deployments; Systems Manager; CloudWatch; Terraform; VPC Peering and VPN's
• Deep expertise/experience with Terraform and related orchestration/infrastructure-as-code services.
• Knowledge of the following will help you stand out:

• Experience with automation, orchestration, and configuration management tools
• Understanding of networking (subnetting, routing, VPC / VNet, security groups, load balancing, etc.)

• 5-10 Years Cloud Services Experience:

• Have at least 1 AWS Associate or Professional Certification

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC), with Terraform
• Scripting capability and the ability to develop AWS environments as code
• Experience with Security Groups and IAM (Identity and Access Management) CloudWatch (Monitoring, Logging), Debugging and Tracing on AWS Cloud Platform)
• Experience with Database, including knowledge of SQL and MySQL, and related data stores such as Postgres.
• Experience with Git, and strong skills with JSON
• Experience with Cloud computing Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), DNS, CDN, Load Balancing and Auto Scaling.

• 3-5 Years On-Premise Experience:

• Solarwinds Enterprise Monitoring and Alerting
• Working Knowledge of Windows Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• VMWare ESX and vSphere
• Maintaining storage systems and hyper-converged systems

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