Cloud Engineer

Skillable is a 100% remote and virtual tech company that’s modernizing the world of training. Come share your professional magic with highly talented, driven and fun colleagues who believe in the power of “skilling.” Experience what a true team focused on doing the right thing feels like! 

Our people and talent are what make us great and fun! We work together to create amazing solutions and experiences for our customers and their clients. We utilize our employees’ personal strengths to help our company grow and ensure our team is living their best, authentic life. We don’t just share our appreciation for our team members once a year with a branded mug—it’s shared on a daily basis. Our remote work environment blends the demands of work and life without the added pressure of commuting or feeling guilty about leaving early to visit the dentist. 

Come work with us and learn what teamwork and integrity blended with an emphasis on well-being and balance can do for your career! 

The Cloud Engineer is responsible for architecting, deploying, and maintaining both Skillable’s platform infrastructure (upon which our software runs) and each cloud fabric (upon which cloud labs run). Provide critical feedback on designing and implementing cost effective, scalable, and secure architectures for our customer facing software platforms, and they own the automation and monitoring of cloud infrastructure/fabrics. Participate in and help lead meetings and working sessions regarding the intersection of Skillable’s platform and each cloud provider. Ensure systems increase efficiency and scalability, eliminate downtime, maintain strong security measures to protect cloud infrastructure and data, and generally optimize for overall cloud performance. 

Responsibilities

• Design resilient and scalable solutions for high availability and disaster recovery 

• Zealously pursue cloud cost optimization, both for platform infrastructure and lab cloud fabrics 

• Work with the data and billing teams to ensure financial transparency (costs properly allocated to labs) and to identify/prevent fraudulent charges 

• Build a defense in depth around our cloud platform and lab fabrics to ensure all possible security measures are in place for securing our cloud resources 

• Implement monitoring for availability, performance and cost 

• Automate routine tasks (example: orphan object cleanups) and drive the creation of infrastructure as code (IAC) 

• Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues related to cloud infrastructure 

• Communicate internally the status of issues, outages challenges and risks 

• Act as the cloud team representative during incidents 

• Guide and influence decisions with proven data analysis and metrics to ensure clear understanding across all levels of the organization 

• Support and promote the company values through positive interaction with both internal and external partners and customers on a regular basis 

• Other strategic business initiatives or cross-functional project involvement as required 

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Software Engineering, or related field preferred, but not required 

• 5+ years of professional experience supporting an always on global SaaS application, and architecting software solutions using native Azure functionality 

• 2+ years of experience in SRE and DevOps methodologies 

• Approaches problems with an automation-first mindset and prefers spending the day writing PowerShell versus clicking buttons in the Azure Portal 

• Demonstrated history of working collaboratively and across organizational boundaries 

• Demonstrated history of working with senior leaders from other teams and with customer technical stakeholders 

• Deep technical knowledge of scripting and automation as applies to public cloud infrastructure deployment and management