Lead Cloud Engineer

About HireRight

HireRight is the premier global background screening and workforce solutions provider. We bring clarity and confidence to vetting and hiring decisions through integrated, tailored solutions, driving a higher standard of accuracy in everything we do. Combining in-house talent, personalized services, and proprietary technology, we ensure the best candidate experience possible. PBSA accredited and based in Nashville, TN, we offer expertise from our regional centers across 200 countries and territories in The Americas, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Our commitment to get it right every time, everywhere, makes us the trusted partner of businesses and organizations worldwide.

Overview

As Lead Cloud Engineer you will be part of a cross-matrixed team responsible as an individual contributor, bridging the gap between application development and IT operations teams by owning and driving cloud infrastructure, code deployments, continuous integration, and production support in an Agile Method. 

 

 

Responsibilities

The Lead Cloud Engineer will perform an operational and project support role for our Enterprise Platform. Responsibilities include automating everything possible, optimizing our stack for performance and fault tolerance, building out our logging and monitoring systems to identify bottlenecks and assist with troubleshooting and debugging, contributing to our devops strategy, platform analysis and optimization, and experimenting with and recommending new technologies to accomplish any of the above goals

Qualifications

• Experience managing public cloud infrastructure on AWS/GCP, including design, implementation, and maintenance of large-scale environments.
• Hands on experience in building CI/CD pipelines, preferably Gitlab;
• Experience with Kubernetes container orchestration technologies. AWS EKS, or Google GKE is strongly desired.
• Experience in Continuous Delivery tools like ArgoCD
• Experience in IAC tooling like Terraform for GCP/AWS and/or other similar tooling
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, microservice architecture, logging/metric/tracing platforms (ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, etc), and security.
• Able to debug, troubleshoot, and resolve complex technical issues calmly and efficiently.
• Experience in Event-Driven architecture
• Strong knowledge and understanding of enterprise-class business applications that are high performance and low latency.
• Ability to encourage the development of CI/CD pipelines and automation across teams.
• Competent in all facets of agile methodologies (Kanban & SCRUM) and software development.
• Strong familiarity with and evidence of grasp of technical quality control procedures and equipment.
• Knowledge of integrating tools for best practices such code coverage analysis, automated unit testing, integration testing, and static code analysis.
• Understanding of IAC tooling, including as Terraform, ARM, and Ansible.
• Strong knowledge of Java, Spring Boot, Sprint Cloud (Mongo DB preferred)
• 10+ years of IT experience
• 10+ years of DevOps or Release Management leadership experience
• 8+ years of Linux
• 7+ years of hands-on working experience with CI/CD processes
• 8+ years of working with cloud platforms such as Azure or GCP is a benefit

Good understanding on Networking, Security and Protocols like OSI model, DNS, DHCP, protocol like HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, SSH, Port forwarding, Emails (SMTP, IAMPS, PoP3S), Reverse & forward proxy, firewall, load balancer, caching server, webserver (Ngnix, Apache, Tomcat, IIS).

 

Good to have:

• Experience on Cloud security
• Experience on Configuration management tools like Ansible, Chef, Puppet
• Experience on Service Mesh.
• Experience on Cloud Design Patterns like Data management, design& implementation, Management & monitoring & availability.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science in a reputable University or closely related field or in the process of obtaining one.

What do we offer

HireRight offers a competitive benefit package which includes:

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Paid Life/AD&D Insurance
• Voluntary Life Insurance
• Short & Long Term Disability
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• 401K
• Generous Vacation and Sick Program
• 10 Paid Holidays
• Education Assistance Program
• Business Casual Attire
• Generous Referral Program
• Employee Discounts and Rewards
• And much more!
• All resumes are held in confidence. Only candidates whose profiles closely match requirements will be contacted during this searc