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

Key: Knowledge of Cloud Governance (focused on AWS/Azure) including:

• Demonstrated use of best practices for establishing Organizations, Control Tower, Budgets in AWS

• Demonstrated use of best practices for establishing Management Groups, Landing Zones,  Cost Management and Billing

• Proven experience in establishing and optimizing AWS multi-account organization.

• Proven experience in establishing AWS policies and permissions.

• 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 to meet business requirements

• 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.

• Experience with PowerShell for creating automated and repeatable solutions.

• Follow software development best practices when developing “infrastructure as code” modules and applications.

• Experience and demonstrated knowledge in of all phases of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) utilizing GitHub, including but not limited to pull requests, branching, CI/CD, code reviews, etc.

• Knowledge of Cloud Governance (focused on AWS/Azure).

• 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 in collaboration with other development teams.

• 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.

• Demonstrated experience working in a collaborative team-based environment utilizing such things (but not limited to) peer coding, design review sessions, etc.

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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, tr