Key skills
Cloud infrastructure managementTerraformAWS experienceScripting/automationLinux/Bash scriptingGitHubJenkinsCloud security best practicesMonitoring toolsmulti-taskinterpersonal skillsorganization skillsCommunication skillsTeamworkPythonBashAnalyticsAWSAzureAnsibleOracleSplunkAppDynamicsLoad BalancingCommunicationCloud Security
About this role
Maximus is currently seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer. The Senior Cloud Engineer is responsible for planning, designing, and implementing technical cloud solutions, optimizing legacy systems, and deploying new infrastructure and cloud services.
Responsibilities:
- Work with development teams throughout the software life cycle ensuring sustainable software releases
- Perform hands on management of cloud infrastructure and automation tools
- Document cloud architecture, security measures, and participate in client audits
- May provide guidance, coaching, and training to other employees within job area on automation technologies, and collaborate with other cloud support teams that support the overall organization
- Serve as the primary technical point of contact for all cloud services consumed by the business
- Lead performance testing, chaos engineering, and remediation efforts for continual improvement
- Embrace and advocate a DevOps mindset
- Troubleshoot major incidents, facilitate blameless post-mortem RCA documentation
- Work with development teams throughout the software life cycle ensuring sustainable software releases
- Perform analytics on previous incidents and usage patterns to better predict issues and take proactive corrective action
- Build and drive adoption for greater reliability, resiliency, and scalability of our production applications, while maintaining a cost conscience approach
- Lead and participate in performance tests; identify bottlenecks, opportunities for optimization, and capacity demands
- Lead and participate in disaster recovery tests for the environments you manage
- Perform hands on management of cloud infrastructure and automation tools
- Document cloud architecture, security measures, and participate in client audits
- Mentor and train other members of the dedicated DevOps team and collaborate with other cloud support teams that support the overall organization
- Understanding cloud security best practices and work with security teams to design and implement a security plan
- Serve as a technical point of contact for all cloud services consumed by the team, and communicate any new enterprise standards or best practices to be adopted by the DevOps teams
- Participate in the 24x7 support coverage as needed
- Excellent interpersonal skills to interact with customers, peers, and executives
- Excellent organization and communication skills, both written and verbal
- Ability to multi-task and to prioritize rapidly changing client demands, in a fast-paced and deadline-oriented environment
- Ability to work well both independently and in teams
Requirements:
- Bachelor or master's degree from an accredited college or university in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field. Equivalent experience considered in lieu of degree
- Technical proficiencies include Terraform, Linux/Bash scripting, Github, and Jenkins
- 5+ years of overall IT experience, 8 years preferred
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in a major cloud provider (Azure, AWS, Google, Oracle)
- 2+ years of hands-on AWS experience
- 3+ years of scripting/automation experience
- Working knowledge in scripting languages and automation tools (JSON, Python, Ansible, GitHub, CodeShuttle) with respect to managing deployment automation
- Advanced knowledge of infrastructure components (networking, load balancing, cloud services, orchestration tools, containerization, compute, and storage systems)
- Working knowledge of Windows and Unix based operating systems
- Familiarity with Splunk, AppDynamics or other monitoring tools
- Experience in a client facing production support environment
- Excellent interpersonal skills to interact with customers, peers, and executives
- Excellent organization and communication skills, both written and verbal
- Ability to multi-task and to prioritize rapidly changing client demands, in a fast-paced and deadline-oriented environment
- Ability to work well both independently and in teams
- Bachelor's degree in relevant field of study and 5+ years of relevant professional experience required, or equivalent combination of education and experience
- Cloud Certifications Desired (ranked by preference)
- AWS DevOps Engineer Professional
- AWS SysOps Admin – Associate
- AWS Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional
- AWS Developer - Associate
- SAFe Certifications Desired (not required)
- SAFe Practitioner
- SAFe DevOps Practitioner