Senior Enterprise Cloud Engineer (Remote Available)

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Organization:

VUMC IT Enterprise Cloud Services

Job Summary:

The Senior Enterprise Cloud Engineer is responsible for providing in-depth technical review, engineering, administration, analysis, trending, and reporting of all cloud services (focused on AWS) including troubleshooting, coordination, user assistance, application support, and guidance. Advocates Cloud adoption and involved the design, deployment, maintenance, monitoring of the organization’s Cloud environment. Recommends, develops, enforces, and follows standards, policies, and procedures for maintaining the security and integrity of solutions. Aids in setting and ensuring the overall architecture standards for cloud deployments, operations, and implementation of best practice cloud operations. Coaches development of other employees.

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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Implement infrastructure delivery strategies, standards, processes, technologies, and tools in the technical visions.

• Understand use cases for Cloud services and technologies providing recommendations for the business.

• Contribute to the design and implementation of secure cloud solutions in support of rapid & secure development principles.

• Develop automation and self-service jobs for the app dev teams.

• Follow “infrastructure as code” principles, favoring automation over manual work.

• Build and support infrastructure to support new applications and microservices as we shift workload to the cloud and develop new cloud-native applications.

• Evaluate cloud application requirements and make architectural recommendations for implementation, deployment, and provisioning applications.

• Develop tools to enable other engineers such as CI/CD pipelines, container schedulers, and custom applications.

• Regularly review existing systems and make recommendations for improvements.

• Maintain relevancy with commercial and open source DevSecOps solutions, processes, and architectures.

• Coaches and reviews the work of lower-level professionals.

TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES:

AD HOC REPORTING - (INTERMEDIATE): Demonstrates mastery of reporting in practical applications of a difficult nature. Able to sort through data to identify patterns and establish relationships. Possesses sufficient knowledge, training, and experience to be capable of successfully delivering complex reports from active and archived information in state-of-the-art databases without requiring support and instruction from others. Demonstrates knowledge of data mining and data warehousing.

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT AND PLANNING - (ADVANCED): Demonstrates the ability to apply diverse areas of business knowledge to successfully meet broad objectives independently. Able to communicate intelligently with users, customers, management, and business leaders on the impact of technology changes. Demonstrates ability to anticipate resource needs, identify discrete tasks, set priorities, define dependencies, schedule activities, and organize work for a diverse, multi-functional configuration plan. Competently handles multiple plans and projects simultaneously managing to commitments and deadlines while successfully navigating dependencies. Improves workflows and systems in the environment as plan results dictate.

CORPORATE SYSTEMS ARCH STANDARDS (INTERMEDIATE): Has detailed knowledge of the architecture of the systems which support more than one core business area. Demonstrates knowledge of how the core business areas' applications and support systems are structured, how various components and parts interact, as well as what protocols and interfaces are used for communications and cooperation between modules and components. Participates in the overall planning and design of the