• Senior AWS Cloud Engineer

    Raymond James Financial, Inc. (St. Petersburg, FL)


    **Note:** This position will follow our hybrid work model, we expect the selected candidate to be in office 2-3 days a week at the St. Petersburg, FL Corporate Office (primary) or the Denver, CO Tech Center.

    Job Summary:

    This role will help drive and implement engineering solutions and strategies that will improve hybrid and public cloud technology adoption, with a focus on AWS technologies. This includes designing and participating in the development of cloud-based solutions that scale to help deliver both internal and business-facing applications. This role will leverage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) frameworks and programming languages to provide a repeatable catalog of secure platform services including virtualized and container-hosted services.

    Responsibilities:

    + Research and recommend innovative technologies and approaches for public cloud infrastructure management, upgrades, or improvements, while adhering to technical or budgetary constraints.

    + Proactively plan capacity monitoring and scaling of platforms and applications.

    + Obtain and evaluate information on factors such as costs, performance, and security to determine solution patterns and services.

    + Participate in software system programming, validation, deployment, and documentation.

    + Provide technical leadership, including mentoring others, gaining consensus across teams & individuals, substantiating technical decisions, validating team recommendations, integrating efforts into a comprehensive strategy, and delivering results on time.

    + Writes and/or reviews requirements, system specifications, flow charts and technical diagrams.

    + May occasionally work a non-standard schedule including nights and/or weekends and/or have on-call responsibilities.

    + Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

    Skills/Previous Experience:

    + Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field (or equivalent experience).

    + Three (3) or more years of relevant experience or combination or education, experience and training is highly preferred.

    Required:

    + Must have AWS Cloud Engineer experience.

    + Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform.

    + Experience coordinating efforts across one or more teams and mentoring more junior developers.

    + Experience with Amazon Web Services, including IAM, S3, EC2, Lambda/Serverless Technologies, RedShift, Aurora and EKS.

    + Knowledge of SOLID and object-oriented design patterns.

    + Experience with on-premises and cloud-based networking.

    + Good knowledge of on-premises and cloud security practices.

    + Experience writing software in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, Java, Groovy, Go, TypeScript).

    + User/developer-level experience with Linux, particularly Ubuntu, Red Hat, or CentOS.

    + Experience working with CI/CD Pipelines or Stack Orchestration processes.

    + Experience working with Git.

    + Experience with Agile/Scrum planning tools (e.g., Jira, Azure DevOps).

    Preferred:

    + Experience with Container tools including Kubernetes and Docker.

    Licenses/Certifications:

    + AWS Certification(s) preferred but not required.

    + Terraform Certification preferred but not required.

    + Programming Certification(s) preferred but not required.