Cloud Engineer

Title: Cloud Engineer
Location: Hybrid - Onsite two days in Irving, TX
Duration: Contract-to-Hire
Work Requirements: , Holders or Authorized to Work in the US

Cloud Engineer

The Cloud Engineer is responsible for working collaboratively in an agile team to implement highly available and secure cloud technologies. The person in this role is also responsible for continuous monitoring and optimization of the cloud implementation for efficiencies and continuous support of, and collaboration with, other teams and projects, particularly DevOps, platform and automation teams. The person in this role must be a highly collaborative, creative and intellectually curious individual who is passionate about forming and implementing cutting-edge cloud computing capabilities.

• Build secure cloud solutions in major public clouds such as Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services

• Collaborate with product owners and managers to establish service level objectives for applications and agreed consequences if the objectives are not being met

• Collaborate with development team members to swarm, troubleshoot, and resolve problems that may exist in cloud-hosted environments

• Ensure that cybersecurity controls are met or exceeded

• Creation of Azure CLI and/or PowerShell scripts to automate repetitive tasks

• Willingness and ability to take a code first approach to the deployment and management of cloud infrastructure and environments using Terraform, Chef, Azure DevOps, Azure Policy and other tools

• While embedding with teams, strategize, consult, and prototype alongside other engineers to implement best practices and solutions for applications utilizing CI/CD and the cloud

• Evangelize distributed version control and trunk-based development, BDD and TDD, pipelines and infrastructure and release automation

• Knowledge and experience provisioning and managing Azure Active Directory Service Principal Names (SPNs) and Enterprise Applications in Azure

• Strong knowledge of Azure Privileged Identity Management including Azure AD, Azure Resource roles and access reviews

• Understanding of Azure Policy and how to create custom policies

• Help determine technical feasibility and solutions for business requirements

• Able to lead training sessions, develop curriculum, and code labs for internal teams under limited supervision

• Willingness to instruct and coach in a cross-team cloud training program as needed

• Be a subject matter expert across the business, responding to cloud technical questions, with an initial focus on Azure and cloud-native technologies as well as 12-Factor software development

• Ability to facilitate group meetings/discussions

• Ability to broker solutions for issues with a department and with team-external leaders

• Be available for an on-call rotation to participate in troubleshooting and communication efforts outside of normal business hours

• Create and implement standards and best practices, driving adoption across development teams and external vendors as applicable

What Makes You A Dream Candidate?

• Software development expertise in multiple high-level programming and scripting languages such as C#, Java, nodejs/python or other languages determined by the department VP

• General knowledge of Azure Kubernetes Service or other Kubernetes including installation, troubleshooting deployments, nodes, pods, certificates and RBAC

• Understanding of IP Networking, subnets, ports, CIDR notation and DNS

• Strong experience in designing, building, and optimizing automated testing and automated security controls

• Comprehensive medical benefits
• Competitive pay
• 401(k) retirement plan
• and much more!