Cloud Ops Engineer

ROLE PURPOSE

The Senior Cloud Operations Engineer will drive our configuration management, build, deploy, and monitor platforms. You must be a self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced, agile environment, which means wearing many hats, being able to change direction quickly, and showing an eagerness to learn and introduce new technologies as the need arises.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (maximum 10)

1. Adopting and implementing best practices and champion an engineering culture emphasizing Agile, DevOps, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Deployment
2. Participate in furthering Agile/DevOps culture.
3. Design next generation application strategy using cloud-native and serverless architectures.
4. Promote the development of technical standards for the team.
5. Work with the lines of business, support staff, and technology areas, to design a technical structure meeting the strategic needs of the business.
6. Implement configuration management for development, test, and production environments.
7. Secure systems using best practices, and continuously audit environment to confirm it is bulletproof.
8. Monitor for optimal performance and uptime of cloud infrastructure.
9. Respond to alerts of application instability, identifying root cause and corrective actions.
10. Control infrastructure costs by continually looking for opportunities to right-size servers and services.

DECISION MAKING AND INFLUENCE

1. Architect systems for high availability. Document and test disaster recovery scenarios.
2. Migrate on-premises workloads to the cloud (AWS/Azure)
3. Monitor application and infrastructure and identify opportunities to improve performance.
4. Work with Engineers to drive issues to resolution during application instability.
5. Identify weaknesses in the infrastructure and be the driver of improvements.
6. Maintain and implement change management control procedures and processes for production, UAT and TE releases.
7. Research and evaluate new technologies.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ATTRIBUTES

Essential (maximum 10):

1. At least 8 years of experience in DevOps and Enterprise Applications deployments on data centers and public clouds.
2. Experience in a modern software development environment that is Agile and incorporates DevOps practices.
3. Hands on experience with DevOps Tools like Jenkins, Artifactory, Maven
4. Strong experience with cloud platforms like AWS and Azure
5. Experience in Python, Terraform, PowerShell
6. Version control systems: Git, BitBucket, TFS
7. Experience in containerization and orchestration(kubernetes)
8. Configuration management using Puppet, Ansible, or Chef
9. Good understanding of Cloud governance and how to implement it.
10. Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment
11. Cloud Certifications like AWS Solutions Architect highly preferred.
12. Expert in Linux/Windows server operating systems, and Web Server technologies including IIS, Tomcat, WebLogic, WebSphere and Apache Web Server
13. Knowledge of relational databases including SQL Server, Oracle, Postgres, and MySQL.
14. Proven ability to work in a team-oriented environment, providing back-up support to team members & establishing/maintaining effective work relationships with co-workers within and across functional areas.
15. Previously demonstrated proactive and positive approach to tasks and projects overall, as well as to the types of scheduling & process changes that are inherent in a fast-paced business.