Senior Cloud Engineer - W2 ONLY-(No sponsorship or C2Cs)

We seek a Senior Cloud Engineer for a Hybrid (Onsite in Huntsville, TX, and remote) long-term position on our W2 (no sponsorship or C2Cs). You will collaborate with GitHub Cloud on our client's mandated modernization project in Huntsville, Texas. This involves leveraging AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and other cloud-based initiatives to facilitate the infrastructure build-out. A working knowledge of AI will be helpful. You will collaborate with our client s administrative team to optimize, implement, and maintain their cloud-based systems, including deploying and debugging systems and executing new cloud initiatives. Ultimately, you will work with different IT professionals and teams to ensure our clients cloud computing systems meet their organizations' needs. Responsibilities Include:

• Design, develop, and deploy modular cloud-based systems such as AWS, Azure, Google, DevOps, GitOps, Soft Stack, Ansible Cloud formation, and Terraform.
• Develop and maintain cloud solutions by best practices.
• Ensure efficient functioning of data storage and process functions by company security policies and best practices in cloud security.
• Identify, analyze, and resolve infrastructure vulnerabilities and application deployment issues
• Regularly review existing systems and make recommendations for improvements.
• Interact with internal clients, provide cloud support, and make recommendations based on needs.
• Gain deep insights into Customer issues and potential risks based on subject matter expertise;
• Devise approach to solving complex problems;
• Exhibit intellectual leadership to the problem-solving effort;
• Manage conflicting stakeholder expectations;
• Provide thought leadership in project; Help team to develop new insights from the analysis;
• Prioritize the recommendations based on ease of implementation and impact;
• Provide subject matter expertise on a specific area within the domain/technology/service;

Required

• 7-10 years of experience as a Cloud Engineer
• Proven work experience as a Cloud Engineer or similar role.
• Troubleshooting and analytical skills.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Client management skills to discuss systems as needed.
• Relevant training and/or certifications as a Cloud Engineer.
• IaC experience is available through Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK, or Ansible.
• Experience with scripting languages like Python, PowerShell, Perl, or other interpretative languages.
• Expertise in identifying and defining problems, analyzing and developing recommendations;

Preferred

• Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud Platform certifications preferred.
• Understanding of Networking Principles.
• Understanding of Security principles, including but not limited to RBAC, Active Directory/Entra, and Security groups.