Senior Cloud Engineer

We believe real value is powered by the unique skills and experiences of our professionals. The interchange of ideas from a diverse group of people gives our teams an expanded perspective and the ability to find better solutions for our clients.

 

Company : Black & Veatch Corporation  

Req Id : 108801 

Job Title : Senior Cloud Engineer - AWS 

Location : RGARLINGTN 

Business Unit Sector : COR-BECIO-CIO 

Department: BVCOR ARCHITECT CLOUD ENGINEER 

Opportunity Type : Staff 

Relocation eligible : No 

Full time/Part time : Full-Time  

Project Only Hire: No 

Visa Sponsorship Available:No  

Recruiter : Karoll Gamarra 

The Opportunity

As the Senior Cloud Engineer, you will have the opportunity to

 

• Be responsible for the Cloud lifecycle management planning, design, oversight, automation, and optimization
• Collaborate extensively with business and IT professionals, and with the Infrastructure, Applications, and Information Security teams, and with third-party vendors and contractors
• Focus heavily on the strategic and architectural design of cloud solutions with a focus and demonstrated experience in AWS and Azure, and with strength in writing Terraform for cloud automation
• Be a recognized communicator, subject matter expert, thought leader, champion for technology adoption and compliance, and a passionate empathizer for client needs

The Team

Black & Veatch’s Business Enablement consists of critical groups that help enable the organizations people, projects, and businesses to be as successful as possible.   Functions in this group include Digital & Information Technology, Global Finance, Global Human Resources, Legal, Risk Management, and Government Affairs and Real Estate and Building Services. 

Key Responsibilities

• Maintains contact and builds relationships with the operating businesses, IT management, IT vendors and technical architects to ensure availability, security, and satisfaction. 
• Assists in identifying new and improved approaches, technologies, tools, templates, and business use cases. 
• Assesses cloud environments for areas like capacity, connectivity, performance, and resiliency. 
• Designs, codes, tests and implements Terraform cloud automations/deployments 
• Reviews/Approves/Represents Change Tickets in the Cloud Infrastructure Area 
• Leads Break-Fix situations with multiple team members including managed service provider partners 
• Maintains broad-based technical and solutions knowledge in key infrastructure optimization and solution areas including:  
  • Multi-Cloud Expertise with an AWS and Azure focus and working understanding of GCP and OCI 
  • Cloud Multi-tenant Administration 
  • Azure Virtual Desktop  
  • Cloud Data Protection/Backup technologies and methodologies including recovery processes 

 

Management Responsibilities

Acts in capacity of a "lead person." Does not have management responsibility for the people to whom they provide work direction.

Preferred Qualifications

Technical Skills 

• Cloud Engineer – AWS and Azure required; GCP & OCI preferred. 
• Monitoring Tools such as Azure Operations Management Suite (OMS) 
• Experience with network architectures 
• Experience with Vulnerability Response/Remediation 
• Scripting/Coding and automation using such tools as Terraform, PowerShell, Python, Ansible, etc. 

Business Skills 

• Experience in leading the delivery of assessments, development of business cases, and solution architecture.  
• Experience with multi-phased, complex migration programs that address technology, people / organization, and process change. 
• Strong written skills – able to create concise and structured recommendations for total solutions as well as simplifying systems architectures. 
• Dynamic and engaging presentation style that commands respect, inspires confidence, earns trust, and makes the complex easy to understand. 
• Strong business engagement and customer relationship management. 
• Demonstrated proficiency with technical architecture, practical adaptation and implementation, functional deployment, and business ROI focused areas of enterprise infrastructure solutions. 
• Financial fluency which includes working with ROI, cost analysis, and financial statements. 
• Strong command of English 
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