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Senior Engineer Cloud Operations
United States
Full-time
1 week ago
$12,000 - $160,000 USD
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Key skills
Cloud infrastructure managementAutomation toolsCloud security best practicesScripting/automation experienceTerraformLinux/Bash scriptingAWS experienceInfrastructure components knowledgeMonitoring tools familiarityMulti-tasking abilityInterpersonal skillsOrganizational skillsCommunication skillsTeamworkPythonBashAnalyticsAWSAzureJenkinsAnsibleOracleSplunkAppDynamicsGitHubLoad BalancingCommunicationCloud Security
About this role
Maximus is currently seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer who will be responsible for planning, designing, and implementing technical cloud solutions. The role involves optimizing legacy systems, deploying new infrastructure and cloud services, and reducing work through automation, while leading a dedicated support team.
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's degree in relevant field of study and 5+ years of relevant professional experience required, or equivalent combination of education and experience
- 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
- 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