Senior AWS Cloud Operations Engineer

Job Description

Note: This position will follow our hybrid work model, we expect the selected candidate to be in office 2-3 days a week at the St. Petersburg, FL Corporate Office (primary) or the Denver, CO Tech Center.

Job Summary:

This role will help drive and implement engineering solutions and strategies that will enable DevOps and hybrid cloud technology adoption. This includes designing and participating in the development of cloud-based solutions that scale to help deliver both internal and business-facing applications. This role will leverage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) frameworks and programming languages to provide a repeatable catalog of secure platform services including virtualized and container-hosted services.

Responsibilities:

• Research and recommend innovative technologies and approaches for private and public cloud infrastructure management, upgrades, or improvements, while adhering to technical or budgetary constraints.
• Proactively plan capacity monitoring and scaling of platforms and applications.
• Obtain and evaluate information on factors such as costs, performance, and security to determine solution patterns and services.
• Participate in software system programming, validation, deployment, and documentation.
• Provide technical leadership, including mentoring others, gaining consensus across teams & individuals, substantiating technical decisions, validating team recommendations, integrating efforts into a comprehensive strategy, and delivering results on time.
• Writes and/or reviews system specifications, including output requirements, flow charts and technical diagrams.
• May occasionally work a non-standard schedule including nights and/or weekends and/or have on-call responsibilities.
• Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Skills/Previous Experience:

• Three (3) or more years of relevant experience or combination or education, experience and training is highly preferred.

Required:

• Must have AWS Cloud Engineering experience.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and/or Cloud Formation.
• Experience coordinating efforts across one or more teams and mentoring more junior developers.
• Experience with Amazon Web Services, including IAM, Lambda/Serverless Technologies, RedShift, Aurora and EKS.
• Knowledge of SOLID and object-oriented design patterns.
• Experience with on-premises and cloud-based networking.
• Good knowledge of on-premises and cloud security practices.
• Experience writing software in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, Java, Groovy, Go, TypeScript).
• Experience with Linux, particularly Ubuntu, Red Hat, or CentOS.
• Experience working with CI/CD Pipelines or Stack Orchestration processes.
• Experience working with Git.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum planning tools (e.g., Jira, Azure DevOps).

Preferred:

• Experience with Container tools including Kubernetes and Docker and AKS.

Licenses/Certifications:

• AWS Certifications preferred but not required.

Education
Bachelor's: Computer and Information Science, Bachelor's: Information Technology, High School (HS) (Required)

Work Experience
General Experience - 3 to 6 years

Certifications

Salary Range
$80,000.00-$150,000.00

Travel
Less than 25%

Workstyle
Hybrid

At Raymond James our associates use five guiding behaviors (Develop, Collaborate, Decide, Deliver, Improve) to deliver on the firm's core values of client-first, integrity, independence and a conservative, long-term view.

We expect our associates at all levels to:
Grow professionally and inspire others to do the same
Work with and through others to achieve desired outcomes
Make prompt, pragmatic choices and act with the client in mind
Take ownership and hold themselves and others accountable for delivering results that matter
Contribute to the continuous evolution of the firm

At Raymond James - as part of our people-first culture, we honor, value, and respect the uniqueness, experiences, and backgrounds of all of our Associates. When associates bring their best authentic selves, our organization, clients, and communities thrive. The Company is an equal opportunity employer and makes all employment decisions on the basis of merit and business needs.
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