Senior Cloud Platform Engineer (Hybrid)

A financial services company is seeking a new Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to join their growing team. In this role, the Senior Cloud Platform Engineer will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining infrastructure as code solutions and tools for our cloud-based systems and applications.

***This is a Hybrid opportunity requiring the qualified professional to work onsite (either the Charlotte, NC or Detroit, MI office) at least 3 days a week.***

Responsibilities:

The Senior Cloud Platform Engineer will:

• Work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure that our cloud infrastructure adheres to industry best practices and regulatory compliance standards


• Design, develop, and prototype cloud deployed services, APIs, and serverless applications using infrastructure as code (Terraform) to enable business capabilities in alignment with architecture direction and standards


• Develop and maintain reusable, inner-sourced Terraform modules for enterprise consumption, collaborating closely with cloud security partners and internal customers


• Lead the development and deployment of new features and tooling to solve complex problems at scale


• Participate in an agile delivery process, and as part of that help size stories and own, research, and recommend new solutions


• Aid in implementation of monitoring using various tools, collection of metrics to enhance visibility, & implement alerting to enhance service reliability


• Develop and maintain policies, procedures, and documentation related to infrastructure deployment patterns and best practices


• Perform other duties, as assigned

Qualifications:

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, or relevant certifications


• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related relevant experience


• Expert knowledge of application and AWS (cloud) architecture and related technologies


• Proficiency designing and building reusable Terraform modules


• Strong DevOps process experience with tools, such as Gitlab


• Experience implementing serverless and event-driven solutions


• Comfortable building solutions as an individual and as a leader of others concurrently


• Excellent technical documentation capabilities (e.g., data models, process diagrams, high-level designs)


• Strategic thinking abilities and an enterprise-wide perspective


• Great interpersonal skills


• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)


• Strong attention to detail


• Highly organized

Desired Skills:

• Experience with Automation & Scripting (Python, Bash, etc.)


• Familiarity with administration of Linux operating systems