Job Summary and Mission
As part of the Cloud Services team, your core role will be leading the development and operations of our core cloud infrastructure. This includes all aspects of cloud services within our hybrid environment (private, Azure, AWS). The role will serve as the main operations as well as the subject matter expert for both public and private IAAS/PAAS services. Your mission is to partner with cloud providers, architects, and other infrastructure engineers in developing best practices and reference architectures to ensure resiliency, agility at defined SLA levels.
Daily Responsibilities
Developing shared services in python, Azure runbooks, terraform templates for application teams
Building and managing shared Kubernetes on prem and public cloud – Azure, AWS, Google.
Express Route monitoring and efficient management R&D of current and emerging cloud technologies
Evaluation and POC’s for core infrastructure and application team’s needs
Design and Evangelism of patterns and reference architectures
Vendor management and engagement within the cloud services domain
Provides system analysis and recommended solutions for environmental performance needs
Plan, implement and support core infrastructure with an overall objective to improve the scalability, reliability, performance, and availability of the cloud infrastructure
Administrates the cloud enrollment and subscription process
Monitors and escalates engineering issues to the architecture team when required
Ensures system performance, uptime, and support levels meet or exceed SLAs
Assists project teams with capacity planning, cloud service offerings, and deployments
Work closely with architects and engineers to design networks, systems, and storage environments that effectively reflect our client's business needs, security, and SLA requirements
Technology Requirements
- Must have 8+ years of overall IT infrastructure and delivery experience
- Must have 3+ years of experience building highly available, scalable cloud-based platform and infrastructure for cloud-native systems
- Must have hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platforms
- Must have experience in Networking, Kubernetes, Python, Terraform and PowerShell
- Must have experience with Build Tools, CI/CD, DevOps, and Agile principals
Working Knowledge
- Configuration management tools such as Chef, Puppet, Ansible, etc.
- Federated Security, Identity, SAML, Single Sign On, IAM, etc.
- Networking and Load Balancers, Firewalls, VPCs, VPNs, DNS OSI Layers, etc.
- Infrastructure and Application logging and monitoring technologies (New Relic, Splunk, etc.)
Degree or Certifications Required
Bachelor's Degree in information systems or a related field
Years Experience
10+ years
Required Background Skills
- Deep expertise in Public Cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP) and internal hosting infrastructure (compute, storage, networking, etc.)
- Experience in Networking, Kubernetes, Python, Terraform and PowerShell
- Candidate must have strong technical fluency; comfort understanding and discussing architectural concepts with management, architects, developers, and systems & applications engineering teams
- Experience with Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and Agile methodologies such as Scrum
- Curiosity to understand how things work and how they can be improved