NcontractsRemote
Senior Cloud Engineer
United States of America
Full-time
2 weeks ago
$135,000 - $165,000 USD
H1B Sponsor Likely
Key skills
AzureAWSInfrastructure-as-CodeCI/CD PipelinesContainerizationTerraformDevOpsSecurity Best PracticesObservabilityPerformance TuningCommunication SkillsProblem-SolvingMentoringSQLAIETLData LakeAnalyticsSnowflakeDatabricksKafkaKubernetesDockerGitHub ActionsServerlessVaultEKSAKSArgoCDCloudFormationAWS CDKEC2LambdaS3DynamoDBRDSIAMCloudWatchSNSSQSGlueAPI GatewayCodePipelineAzure FunctionsAzure DevOpsAzure SQLBlob StorageCosmos DBAzure MonitorApp ServiceLogic AppsService BusAzure ADCloud StoragePostgreSQLRedisElasticsearchPrometheusGrafanaDatadogDynatraceRESTfulGitGitHubVersion ControlRabbitMQIstioLinkerdService MeshCachingPerformance OptimizationSAPAgileScrumKanbanCI/CDProject ManagementRisk ManagementCommunicationNetwork SecurityFirewall
About this role
Ncontracts is a leading company in integrated risk management and compliance solutions for financial institutions. They are seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to architect and manage enterprise-scale cloud infrastructure solutions across Azure and AWS, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance optimization.
Responsibilities:
- Design and implement cloud infrastructure solutions across Azure and AWS, focusing on scalability, reliability, and performance optimization
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, and AWS CodePipeline with automated testing and deployment strategies
- Implement and optimize containerized applications using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), and container orchestration with Docker and Kubernetes
- Develop infrastructure-as-code solutions using Terraform, Azure Bicep, ARM Templates, and AWS CloudFormation with emphasis on modularity and reusability
- Implement comprehensive observability solutions using Azure Monitor, AWS CloudWatch, Dynatrace, or similar tools, creating dashboards, alerts, and monitoring best practices
- Provision and maintain AI service infrastructure, ensuring high availability of model endpoints, implementing fallbacks and guardrails, deploying central AI platform components (proxies, gateways, monitoring), and managing observability, logs, and cost attribution workflows
- Design and manage message queuing systems for event-driven architectures using RabbitMQ, Kafka, Azure Service Bus, AWS SQS/SNS, and third-party solutions
- Optimize cloud storage solutions across platforms: Azure (Blob Storage, Files, Data Lake Storage) and AWS (S3, EBS, EFS)
- Implement security best practices across both platforms including: IAM policies and role-based access control (Azure RBAC, AWS IAM), Secrets management (Azure Key Vault, AWS Secrets Manager), Certificate lifecycle management (Azure Key Vault, AWS Certificate Manager), Network security (Azure NSG/Firewall, AWS Security Groups/Network Firewall)
- Perform performance tuning and scalability optimization for applications, including load testing and capacity planning
- Conduct incident response, root cause analysis, and implement improvements to prevent recurrence
- Collaborate with development teams to ensure infrastructure supports application requirements and deployment needs
- Mentor L1, L2, and L3 engineers on cloud technologies, DevOps practices, and troubleshooting techniques
- Contribute to infrastructure standards, best practices documentation, and runbook development
- Support disaster recovery planning and backup/restore procedures with testing and validation
- Monitor and optimize cloud spending through FinOps practices, implementing cost-saving measures across both platforms
- Work with both Azure and AWS platforms daily to support mission-critical production workloads
Requirements:
- 6+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE roles with proven technical expertise
- Strong proficiency in both Azure and AWS cloud platforms with demonstrated capability to architect and implement solutions in either environment
- Professional-level certifications in both platforms: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305) - Required, and AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional (SAP-C02) - Required
- Demonstrated strong proficiency with cloud-native services across both platforms: Compute (Azure VMs/App Service/AKS and AWS EC2/Lambda/EKS), Storage (Azure Blob Storage/Data Lake and AWS S3/Glacier), Networking (Azure VNet/Load Balancer/Application Gateway and AWS VPC/ALB/NLB/API Gateway), Databases (Azure SQL/Cosmos DB/PostgreSQL and AWS RDS/Aurora/DynamoDB), Serverless (Azure Functions/Logic Apps and AWS Lambda/Step Functions), Containers (AKS and EKS)
- Expert-level proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools: Multi-cloud (Terraform - required), Azure (Bicep, ARM Templates), AWS (CloudFormation, AWS CDK)
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines across platforms (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline)
- Strong proficiency with observability and monitoring tools: Azure Monitor/Application Insights, AWS CloudWatch/X-Ray, Third-party (Dynatrace, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana)
- Experience implementing message queuing systems (Azure Service Bus, AWS SQS/SNS, RabbitMQ, Kafka)
- Working knowledge of cloud storage solutions and data architectures across both platforms
- Demonstrated experience with security best practices: Azure AD/Azure RBAC/Azure Key Vault, AWS IAM/AWS Organizations/AWS Secrets Manager, Network security across both platforms
- Proven ability to perform performance tuning and scalability optimization for production applications
- Strong problem-solving skills with ability to troubleshoot complex distributed systems independently
- Excellent communication skills and demonstrated ability to mentor junior and mid-level engineers
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
- Additional professional certifications: Azure DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400), AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional, Azure Security Engineer Associate, AWS Certified Security - Specialty
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) and/or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
- Experience architecting complex multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud solutions
- Hands-on experience with caching solutions (Azure Redis Cache, AWS ElastiCache)
- Experience with database administration and optimization: Azure SQL Database/Cosmos DB/PostgreSQL for Azure, AWS RDS/Aurora/DynamoDB
- Experience with distributed search platforms (Azure Cognitive Search, AWS OpenSearch, Elasticsearch)
- Experience with data platforms and ETL tools: Azure Data Factory/Azure Synapse Analytics, AWS Glue/AWS Data Pipeline, Snowflake/Databricks
- Deep knowledge of microservices architecture and RESTful API design
- Experience with deployment automation tools (Octopus Deploy, Spinnaker, ArgoCD)
- Experience with automated testing frameworks and quality assurance for infrastructure
- Proficiency with version control workflows (Git flow, trunk-based development)
- Experience with agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and project management tools
- Knowledge of compliance frameworks and security standards (SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI-DSS)
- Understanding of advanced networking: Azure (VNet peering, Private Link, ExpressRoute), AWS (VPC peering, PrivateLink, Direct Connect)
- Experience creating technical documentation and knowledge bases
- Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd, AWS App Mesh)
- Experience with chaos engineering and resilience testing
- Contributions to open-source infrastructure or DevOps projects