Cloud Engineer

Position Summary:

The Cloud Engineer is responsible for supporting the IT needs of the company, as they relate to cloud operations. This position will manage end-to-end AWS cloud infrastructure. The successful candidate will support all infrastructure (including computer, network, storage, and security) and automation requests/incidents. Create and manage repositories for reusable assets/artifacts. Create, maintain, and manage the required environments (Dev, QA, Prod) to ensure seamless cloud application development, integration, and service delivery.

The Cloud Engineer will also be responsible for creating and updating infrastructure documentation, systems assessments and reporting results. The Infrastructure Engineer will work closely with other members of the team to support the overall mission of the company and the end users' ability to achieve that mission.

• Participates in system design planning, review, and implementation to create enterprise solutions built on AWS

• Provides general and routine maintenance support including installation, patching, configuration, backups, and updates

• Recommends modifications to systems to improve efficiency, reliability, and performance for delivering application and infrastructure in the cloud

• Responsible for participating in IT change management and asset management processes

• Maintains documented procedures for Infrastructure

• Collaborates with team members, developers, and software vendors to design, implement and test systems

• Requires occasionally working during non-business hours and on weekends

• Participates in on call rotation

• Is accountable on the use of services, handling of sensitive data, and resolving incidents and requests in compliance with FFIEC regulations

• Creates and updates systems documentation, performing systems assessments, and reporting results

• Contributes to research and evaluation and build out of new enterprise technologies

• Stays current with advances in technologies

• Performs other duties as assigned

The successful candidate will possess operations experience and skills, leadership expertise, analytical and critical thinking skills, and attention to detail. Additionally, the ideal candidate should possess the following:

• Bachelor's degree in Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM)

• 5+ years of progressive experience as an Infrastructure Engineer

• Technical certification in AWS, Microsoft, or VMware highly desirable

• Experience with AWS within the last year

• Knowledge of networking fundamentals and network requirements for a hybrid cloud environment

• Experience with infrastructure automation tools such as Ansible

• Experience working within Agile software development methodology

• Experience with Linux server operating systems

• Ability to generate and maintain technical documentation is required

• Experience with administering and troubleshooting performance of recent SQL server versions within the last 2 years

• Knowledge and understanding of IT concepts, best practices and procedures

• Self-motivated with the ability to work individually or in a team

• Ability to leverage tools to perform day-to-day administration tasks, root-cause analysis and service restoration (such as backup, restore, failover, log interpretation, and performance monitoring)

• Ability to multitask and manages work effectively by prioritizing own assignments, schedules, and meetings resulting in timely completion of work

• High degree of personal integrity

• The applicant should be eager to learn and obtain technical certification

• Must be able to receive and follow instructions given by management

• Must have the ability to research and develop solutions to unique problems

Compensation range for this position:

$104,800 - $162,400