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Pivotal SolutionsPosted 1 month ago

Senior Cloud Engineer

RemoteUnited States

Part TimeSenior LevelMedium

Job Summary

Assess the current AWS environment for security, networking, storage, and cost-effectiveness while collaborating with development teams on configuration changes. Serve as level 2+ support for incidents, create standard operating procedures, and maintain Linux/Windows OS, architecture, and service building. Execute capacity planning, backup strategies, and patching across multiple functional environments. Participate in a 24/7 On-Call rotation to address technical escalations. Mentor junior staff, document cloud architecture, and ensure infrastructure components meet performance standards within IT Governance and Change Management processes.

Required Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience engineering and deploying AWS and Azure based environments
  • Developing and maintaining applications built on Amazon VPC, EC2, AWS Lambda, Amazon EFS/EBS/S3, ELB, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Cloud Formation, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, SNS, and AWS databases such as RDS and Redshift
  • Experience with AWS and Azure environment design, and architecture, including assessing costs and security
  • 5+ years of hands on experience with Windows and Linux Server Administration and Engineering, both on-prem and in the cloud
  • Knowledge in development languages such as Node.js, Python, Ruby etc as it relates to serverless & scripting
  • Knowledge of security controls, how to administer standards, controls, procedures, and create required documentation (e.g. SOX, PII & PCI)
  • Experience working with software development teams and CI/CD/Devops familiarity
  • Excellent project management, verbal and written communication skills, and customer service skills
  • Ability to perform large scale design and implementation of cloud infrastructure projects, technical processes and procedures as they relate to cloud engineering
  • Ability to proactively identify opportunities for improvement of cloud technologies
  • Ability to document cloud architecture and related processes using Microsoft Visio or a similar tool
  • Ability to work with minimal supervision and take ownership of problems and/or issues and ensures timely resolution
  • Ability to act as escalation point and mentor for junior level staff, providing direction and guidance when necessary
  • Ability to be part of IT Governance and Change Management processes
  • Ability to ensure all infrastructure components meet proper performance and capacity standards
  • Participation in a 24/7 On-Call rotation to address and resolve technical escalations

Desired Qualifications

  • Assessing the current AWS environment and making recommendations related to security/permissions, networking, storage, uptime/down time, server-less, and cost effectiveness
  • Work very closely with the development team on configuration changes and aiding in the development of level one team members to expand their knowledge base and impact of the operating environment
  • Serve as level 2+ support for incidents and creating standard operating procedures for level 1 support teams
  • Assist in the support of Linux/Windows OS, architecture and building of services and conducting patching, upgrades, capacity planning, backup strategies, and integration planning and execution
  • Maintenance, enhancements, upgrades and tuning across multiple functional environments

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