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Job Description

Client is a SaaS software company focused on developing innovative enterprise resilience solutions for government agencies, corporations, healthcare providers, and higher education.

The Senior Cloud Engineer reports to the Director of Technology and calls for someone who has the necessary hard and soft skills required to overcome the traditional barriers between software development, testing and operations teams. This will involve providing Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery solutions which align with established System Development Life Cycles as well as administering and deploying tools to support these functions.

-Actively work on assigned cloud-based platform or new functionality projects including architecture design preparation, implementation, and documentation tasks.

-Maintain and develop “Platform As Code” code base.

-Troubleshoot and resolve issues in development, lab, and production environments.

-Timely and effectively solve incidents and work on RCA cases.

-Help to deploy and support applications that are running in AWS or Azure.

-Work on patching and maintenance tasks.

-Building cloud platform components and new application integration with our monitoring system.

-Developing Cloud agnostic infrastructures leveraging Kubernetes.

-Collaborate with other team members to keep following approved standards.

-Collaborate with Development teams to solve complex issues, design new solutions or to help with new code deployment actions to Production environments.

-Participate in on-call rotation.

Compensation: $130k to $145k per year annual salary.

Exact compensation may vary based on several factors, including skills, experience, and education.

Benefit packages for this role include healthcare insurance offerings and paid leave as provided by applicable law.

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Skills and Requirements

-Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Information Systems or equivalent experience.

-5+ years’ experience in a Cloud Engineer role preferred.

-As the Company is a partner with the United States government, this position may require access to sensitive government information. Accordingly, candidates must be a US Citizen capable of passing an SF-85 background check and obtaining public trust clearance if required.

Skills/ Knowledge Requirements:

-Knowledge of Linux and/or Windows operating system.

Previous experience in CI/CD tools (Gitlab, Azure DevOps, Jenkins).

-Experience with one or more configuration management tools, preferably Ansible.

-Advanced database management skills.

Strong understanding of 3-tier application infrastructure, DNS, and basic networking topics.

-Solid ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

-Exceptional attention to detail.

-Knowledge of the AWS and/or Azure stack including security best practices.

-Knowledge of distributed systems and redundancy, high-availability, and performance optimizations

-Scripting experience in BASH along with either Python or Ruby

-Experience with provisioning tools, preferably Terraform

-Experience with VCS tools such as Git or TFS

-Experience with systems monitoring and application monitoring solutions such as Datadog and New Relic

-Understanding of what “Platform as Code” and “Configuration as Code” means and how to apply it

-Understanding of ITIL framework and all related procedures such us incident management, change management, RCA

-Comfort with collaboration, open communication and reaching across functional borders.

-Knowledge of Agile methodologies. -Experience working with Software Engineering teams.

-Experience building automated release pipelines using CI/CD tools like Jenkins.

-Experience with application containerization.

-Experience with Kubernetes.