Sr Cloud Engineer

Cloud Engineer

Skills (EXPERT/ADVANCED/NONE):

Sr. Cloud Engineer
AWS
Azure
Ansible
Questions (Must answer YES to all but #2)

Are you a Sr. Cloud Engineer?
Do you have extensive CMT industry experience?
Can you design and implement Virtual Private Cloud VPC environments?
Are you able to manage CSP Image architecture?
Can you lead junior team members?
Do you have experience working in 24x7 Operations and Managed Service model?
Do you have Configuration management using Ansible?

Description:

Responsibilities:
Senior support engineer for customers, as well as the more junior members of the team
Work with the customer and lead architect on designing and implementing Virtual Private Cloud VPC environments, including compute, storage, database, networking, security etc. in the CSP ecosystem
Deploy/Manage CSP environments including VPN solutions between regions and subnets
Manage CSP Image architecture including the development of machine templates and blueprints
Leading junior team members through deployment and implementation of systems infrastructure projects and overseeing the Cloud environments based on customer requirements
Validation to ensure that the environment meets all security and compliance controls
Leveraging written and verbal communication skills to work directly with customers and translate business needs into technical requirements for implementation
Creating knowledge articles and run books for solutions developed
Mentoring junior members of the team

Required Skills & Experience:
Experience working in 24x7 Operations and Managed Service model, supporting external customers.
Long working knowledge and experience of AWS (Azure and Google Cloud Platform optional) Services and Offerings such as Infrastructure, Networking, Messaging, Application Services, Migration Services, Cost Management Platform
Working knowledge of Configuration Management (Ansible preferred) Continuous Integration Tools (GitLAB, GitHub, Jenkins)
Prior experience provisioning and spinning up Kubernetes Clusters and managing Kubernetes installations
Hands on Terraform experience
Possession of excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
Experience working in Federal or State government environments
Understanding of Security and Vulnerability management and related tools (OKTA, Tenable, TrendMicro, XSoar, CyberARK)
In depth knowledge of UNIX/Linux and Windows Environment
End to End configuration & trouble shooting of the web and application servers (Nginx, Apache, Tomcat, IIS)
Good written and verbal English communication
Production experience to build scalable systems (load balancers, memcached, master/slave architectures)
Experience supporting a managed services infrastructure (Public cloud)
Prior work with Cloud Monitoring tools (Dynatrace preferred, DataDog, Nagios, Cacti, CloudWatch, Gnaglia, etc.)
Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos, NoSQL databases (DynamoDB, Cassandra, MongoDB, etc)
Other Open Source tools used in the infrastructure space (Packer, Terraform, Vagrant, etc.)