Position Summary

Effectual Cloud Engineers (CEs) are members of the Commercial Professional Services team responsible for ensuring that customer-facing projects are delivered with exceptional customer satisfaction and technical excellence. Effectual CEs are “Brand Ambassadors” and are expected to stay current on leading practices to deliver high-quality, well-conceived solutions to customers.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Demonstrated expertise with containerization, container orchestration, and container cluster management.
  • Implementing a containerization strategy – deployment, testing, and troubleshooting
  • Ensuring alignment to leading practices for containerization and container management
  • Hands on experience with the following tools:
    
    • Prisma Cloud
    • Harness
    • SonarCube
    • JFrog Artifactory
    • Hashicorp Vault
    • AWS Secrets Manager
  • Enabling customers’ use of AWS to achieve their business objectives through:
    • Implementing cloud infrastructure, using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), including but not limited to:
      • Creating Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) resources such as subnets, network access control lists, and security groups
      • Creating IAM users and groups
      • Deploying, testing, and documenting development, pre-production, and production environments
      • Composing and leveraging Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g.: AWS CloudFormation templates, Terraform, etc.) to ensure repeatable, sustainable AWS infrastructure
      • Creating gold images / AMIs and configuring auto scaling
      • Configuring multi-factor authentication on virtual and hardware devices
    • Supporting developers in efficiently working within AWS through:
      • Creating Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines
      • Providing input and guidance to developers on overall AWS Architecture and design tenets
      • Demonstrating an "as-code" first mindset through the regular use and advocacy of Terraform or other "as-code" tools
    • Establishing visibility into cloud operations through:
      • Leveraging resource tagging to allocate costs and optimize resource planning
      • Assisting in preparing cost analysis based on expected usage
      • Configuring AWS cloud infrastructure for maximum technical and budgetary efficiency
    • Supporting rigorous project governance and execution achieved through:
      • Meeting with team members daily to review progress
      • Holding team members accountable for and challenging team members on technical solution implementation approaches to achieve optimal outcomes
      • Submitting time on assigned projects, daily
    • Supporting project delivery team members by:
      • Always operating with transparency
      • Being responsive to requests from team members for information
      • Communicating working preferences and understanding the working preferences of others to help develop a high-performing team that operates with respect, effectiveness, and efficiency

Qualifications

• 3+ years of DevOps / SRE experience working in AWS environment(s) and / or supporting software development team(s) consisting of at least:
  • 3+ years of experience developing AWS cloud infrastructure
  • 3+ years of experience developing CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitHub, and Azure DevOps
  • 3+ years of experience creating automated alerts and monitoring dashboards
  • 1+ years of experience in Container specific technologies (Snyk, Palo Alto Networks Prisma Cloud, Rafay, Harness, etc.)
• Strong working knowledge of leading AWS cloud security practices
• Proficient in developing Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g.: Terraform / AWS CloudFormation)
• Proficient in coding configuration management tooling (e.g.: Ansible, Chef, Puppet, etc.)
• Proficient in at least one or more programming / scripting languages (e.g.: Python, Java, Groovy, etc.)
• Demonstrable knowledge of Agile and Waterfall SDLC methodologies
• Ability to work with multiple clients, in parallel
• Attention to detail
• Exceptional communication and time management
• Ability to work Eastern Standard Time Zone schedule

Nice-to-Have Skills and Experience

• AWS certifications (e.g.: Developer Associate, Sysops Administrator Associate, Solution Architect Associate, etc.)
• Experience with Terraform Enterprise and or Terraform Cloud
• Experience with Hashicorp's overall product portfolio (e.g.: Vault, Consul, Boundary, etc.)
• Use of the following tools – Splunk, Splunk Security, Yotascale, Grafana, ServiceNow, Venafi, Illumio, CyberArk
• Use of code analysis tools such as AWS X-