Cloud Platform Engineer

Title: Cloud Platform Engineer

Location: St. Louis, MO

Duration: Long Term

Interview Mode: 30 minute video + 30 minute video + onsite interview in St. Louis, MO (Fed Reserve will fly the candidate onsite on their dime). The onsite interview is basically a meet and greet. If they are getting an onsite interview it is 95% an offer.

Job description:

Overview

The Bank is seeking a motivated Cloud Platform Engineer with expertise in cloud-based infrastructure, Infrastructure as Code, and full-stack development. The role involves designing new infrastructure solutions and enhancing existing ones, leveraging experience to help set technology direction. The ideal candidate will have strong analytical and problem-solving skills, as well as the ability to understand broader strategic goals, to guide the creation and maintenance of innovative, reusable enterprise technology solutions. 

Responsibilities

·        Design complex full-stack cloud technology solutions in collaboration with application development teams, aligned with the vision established by technology and product leaders.

·        Take ownership of existing technology solutions, designing and recommending improvements to increase efficiency, resiliency, and reduce manual effort

·        Develop and lead the peer review process for Infrastructure as Code (IaC). IaC tools include Terraform, PowerShell, bash and Python.

·        Lead the implementation of additional tools and processes that maintain an automation-first approach to infrastructure and middleware management.

·        Collaborate with teams to understand their current infrastructure state and assist them in achieving the next step forward.

·        Help create roadmaps to sunset, replace, and decommission legacy implementations as new capabilities are introduced.

·        Act as a subject matter expert for infrastructure operations in cloud; act as an escalation point for application development teams.

 Qualifications

5+ years of relevant experience, encompassing:

·        Building and scaling highly available cloud architecture while maintaining high-quality codebases

·        Utilizing system monitoring and automated self-healing.

·        In-depth knowledge of Terraform, Python, shell scripting, and other automation tools.

·        Full stack application development experience, including CI/CD pipeline development, automated builds, testing, and Infrastructure as Code. GitLab experience preferred.

·        Developing and maintaining infrastructure solutions in Amazon Web Services (AWS), including tools such as Kubernetes, Docker, Lambda, and serverless deployments

·        Applying Agile methodologies and DevSecOps practices in planning and organizing work

·        Monitoring platform/application using tools such as Dynatrace, Grafana, CloudWatch is preferred.

VENDOR CALL NOTES: ALSO SEE INTERVIEW FEEDBACK BELOW:

·        All candidates must be prepared to come on site for an interview - no getting around that. They will fly them in

·        Funded at this rate until end of year. Will be trying to target similar bill rate if this were to be extended

·        Expertise in Kubernetes - EKS in AWS expertise

o   Support multiple business clients where multiple applications are hosted

·        Heavy use of GitLab - workloads in commercial cloud and Gov cloud - and manage commercial cloud with Gitlab workloads

·        Terraform is a critical need since all IaC is in terraform

·        Python script is good to have

·        Component - this person will work with AppDev teams- so customer is engineers - so might need to get on app dev teams troubleshooting calls

·        Commercial AWS support until end of year, and then more on the Gov cloud - migrating most of workload to the Gov Cloud. Nothing is really on prem/no on prem app support

·        Definitely a plus if they have an appdev background

·        Most infrastructure is automated - so improving some of the existing stuff

·        What is the day to day like?

o   First/primary will be managing the EKS shared cluster - on call responsibility so it''s up and running 24/7

§  Critical to keep and eye on things that could cause issues - shared service platform

o   Self service pipeline - people can go and request something and that is where the IaC piece comes in handy - might need additional features, etc

§  S3 buckets on AWS - app team doesn''t need to go to this team to get S3 buckets - there is a self service function where they can fill out a template and it creates everything for them. Similarly to Lambdas. If there is a function that doesn''t work, or needs something outside, then this team escalates/gets more involved

·        Team size is about 10-11; will be working with corporate services teams - so 2 engineers, an architect, solution engineer -

·        Industry experience isn''t important

·        Interview: At least 3 rounds - will do tech interviews virtually prior to bringing them into the interview

·        Why open?

Backfill/critical need to support these platforms