Senior Cloud Engineer

The Senior Cloud Engineer will build, design, and maintain reliable and scalable infrastructure using public cloud platforms. The Senior Cloud Engineer will work to enhance and maintain the existing foundational AWS platform and look for opportunities to standardize across the platforms while adhering to organizational standards and goals. The Senior Cloud Engineer will be a subject matter expert (SME) for their areas of responsibility. This individual requires minimal supervision and is expected to conduct assessments, create roadmaps, and build proofs of concept for potential software and tools, identify opportunities for improvement and innovation, and implement solutions. The Senior Cloud Engineer will serve as an escalation point for IT Support, Systems Administrators, and business teams

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

Cloud Engineer Tasks (30%)

• Administers, monitors, and improves corporate software systems and the related infrastructure
• Design, implement, monitor, and manage cloud-based solutions
• Migrate on-prem infrastructure to public cloud solutions
• Design, develop, and manage repeatable, deployable infrastructure as code
• Automate the provisioning of cloud resources
• Execute on technical design, delivery, and architecture on major new platforms and products
• Implement cost optimization and governance strategies for continuous cost reduction
• Perform infrastructure upgrades and updates to maximize system efficiency while minimizing downtime.

Cloud System Management (20%)

• Takes ownership of system issues, support requests, projects, and improvement tasks with minimal supervision
• Manage cloud environments in accordance with company security guidelines
• Regularly review and make any necessary improvements to existing systems based on security, performance, cost, and industry best practices
• Provide backup and recovery support and guidance for cloud resources when needed
• Review and provide input to policies and standard operating procedures
• Manage cloud IAM users, service accounts and credentials
• Lead in the improvement of the availability and scalability of cloud infrastructure.

Subject Matter Expert (20%)

• Utilize AWS expertise to ensure the quality of architecture and design of systems
• Keep up to date on cloud services to allow for continuous improvement and to bring new ideas into the team
• Assist team members with troubleshooting and resolving on-premises, cloud and basic network connectivity issues
• Evaluate and provide insight on cloud technologies
• Propose architectural solutions for operational improvements
• Troubleshoot and resolve cloud service issues
• Lead Technical discussions
• Provide technical leadership on complex projects

Documentation (20%)

• Create process and administration documentation for cloud-based solutions
• Create and maintain documentation for standard operating procedures, system requirements, and other technical documents
• Design, build and maintain cloud operations processes
• Create and maintain comprehensive documentation as it relates to cloud topology and configuration(s).

Mentorship (10%)

• Coach other engineers on public cloud platform best practices
• Train teams on the implementation of cloud-based initiatives, providing associated training as required

Qualifications (Education, Experience, Certifications & KSA):

• High School Diploma required
• Bachelor’s degree preferred
• 5 – 7 years of directly related work experience required
• AWS certification required
• Experience with AWS cloud platforms and services
• Experience with enterprise system infrastructure
• Experience administering servers in public cloud providers
• Experience with system monitoring and troubleshooting resources
• Experience with file system security permissions
• Experience with enterprise networking (e.g., TCP/IP, DNS, FTP, DMZ, Active Directory, SSL/TLS)
• Experience reading and writing basic code (e.g., Python, C#, Powershell)
• Experience with Data Protection and Disaster Recovery.
• Demonstrated experience maintaining cloud infrastructure services (e.g., VPC, Network, ELB, EBS, Transit Gateway, Security Groups, Route Tables)
• Experience with cloud adoption, including application readiness assessment, prototyping of new environments, server builds, data migration, performance tuning of cloud environments.
• Experience with troubleshooting complex distributed environments pertaining to connectivity and application performance and monitoring tools and offering high-level strategic planning and advice to an entity that will allow for the successful adoption or migration of Cloud-based technologies or services.
• Demonstrated experiencing being able to plan and prioritize varying demands and manage individual time effectively.
• Familiar with Cisco and Palo Alto networking and security appliances
• Experience collaborating with cross functional teams to achieve a shared project goal
• Experience mentoring other technical staff
• Experience leading large scale initiatives
• Working knowledge of multi-tier architectures

We offer our employees a robust compensation package! Our comprehensive benefits include: medical, dental and vision insurance coverage; 100% company-paid life and disability coverage, 401k options with company match, three weeks PTO by the end of the first year and much more. Allied proudly promotes from within as part of a strong commitment to providing career growth opportunities for employees of all levels. Our diverse business portfolio allows employees broad career options with the advantage of staying with the same organization.

All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.