Senior Cloud Engineer

 

Senior Cloud Engineer

 

What you will be doing:

The Senior Cloud Engineer will design, implement, secure, and manage private and public cloud infrastructure. Collaborates with development leads and architects to ensure cloud-native workloads are deployed according to IT best practices for security, governance, identity and access management, and monitoring.  Collaborates with infrastructure leads and architects to ensure high levels of resilience (failover, workload balancing, backup & recovery, disaster recovery, vulnerability management) in all cloud environments.  Responsible for overall strategy for moving all applications to cloud-native platforms.  Integrates cloud compute environments with traditional data center services.  Maintains a keen market awareness of cloud platform alternatives and differentiators to communicate a rationalized Cloud roadmap.  Provides project leadership for requirements gathering design, planning, coordination, and implementation of releases, upgrades, or changes to the Premier computing environment.  Serves as an escalation point for troubleshooting problems, and the rapid restoration of production service incidents.  Leads project teams and works closely with internal and external customers and vendors to provide proposals and supporting analysis for operational improvement and ongoing project requirements.  Possesses an enterprise view of the business environment and the business applications running on the systems being managed.  Provides day-to-day guidance and coaching to cross-functional team members, Engineers, Administrators and Associates

    •   Cloud Networking
    •   Security and Governance
    •   Compute Stacks/Configuration Management
    •   Software Development and Deployment. CI/CD. Terraform.
    •   Utilization / Cost optimization of various resources within cloud platform

Key Responsibilities

Workload and Cost Optimization – 30%

-       Ensure all workloads are on the correct platform based on product revenue, criticality, performance profile, and cost
-       Migrate workloads between platforms as needed
-       Provide resource consumption reporting (for all public/private/cloud container platforms (by application) to  TechOps and business teams on a monthly basis.  Review and refine reporting for maximum impact
-       Adapt self-service and manual provisioning interfaces and processes to drive the provisioning of resources on the most business and cost appropriate platforms
-       Establish processes to identify over-provisioning of resources, automatically reclaim resources, and notify stakeholders
-       Implement controls that ensure individual workload consumption is either approved by business stakeholders or constrained by compute pool resource limits
-       Support efforts to establish “show back” of all costs associated with internal and external cloud and container platforms

DevOps Integration & Technology Assessment – 20%

-       Partner with development team leads and team members to support velocity in continuous integration and delivery process
-       Maintain awareness of and proficiency in development team CI/CD processes and tools
-       Ensure software development pipeline, testing, code repository, and issue tracking systems integrate well with cloud and container platform services
-       Work with Development iteration teams in an agile environment including but not limited to attending/stand ups, product meetings and involvement with sprint tasks
-       Identify applications on traditional infrastructure that could be re-expressed in cloud environments and develop priorities for migration based on level of effort and cost benefit
-       Play a key role in the technical deployment for new application initiatives, beginning at the business requirements stage, to determine and deliver technical components necessary to build and deploy the new application
-       Ensures technical and architectural requirements are incorporated appropriately within new system initiatives
-       Play a key role in technology evaluation, selection, integration and implementation of new systems architectures, tools and techniques
-       Review and analyzes vendor-supplied utilities, software packages and engineering releases for the environment
-       Attend vendor conferences and presentations to maintain current and develop new business relevant skills

Administration and Support – 20%

-       Provide hands-on support for private/public cloud and co