Role: Sr. Cloud Engineer
Location: Chicago, IL (Onsite/Hybrid)
Job Type: Contract
Must Have Skills:
1. Jira
2. Azure
3. Datadog
Skill Metrics:
Job Description/ Responsibilities:
The ideal candidate will have expertise in Jira, Azure, Datadog, Gitlab CI, Ansible, and Terraform.
- Partner with application teams on their journey to Public Cloud
- Key technical lead and liaison between application teams and enterprise cloud migration initiative
- Identify end to end DevOps solutions, leverage best practices and patterns
- Self-starter who can pick up new technologies/skills, be comfortable with ambiguity and drive initiatives forward
- Roll up sleeves and get teams over tricky CI/CD challenges
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
- Minimum 10 years of experience with developing and implementing applications and end-to-end solutions
- At least 5 years of progressive experience with the concepts and tools behind the design and implementation of best-in-class CI/CD, application monitoring and resilience on Public Cloud
Preferred Skills/Experience:
- Must have hands-on experience deploying and running applications on Public Cloud (Azure preferrable, AWS) from Development through Production
- Proven track record with IaC, CI/CD/DevOps/DevSecOps, Test Automation, Supportability
Core toolsets include: Terraform, Ansible, Gitlab CI/CD, Jira, Datadog
App Stack Exposure .NET/Java/Spring, REST, Microservice, React, Docker/K8s. On-prem/Azure and/or AWS.
Azure IaaS/PaaS expert experience.
Define/create runtime environment, network, storage etc.
Database experience DML/DDL deployment for Microsoft SQL Server (must have), Cassandra (nice to have)
End to end System Solutioning on Cloud for Resilience, Security, Performance, Availability, Scalability
Financial Services domain knowledge is highly desirable