Hi,

Below is the Job Description for the position of Sr Cloud Engineer

The ideal candidate will have strong communication skills, a customer service-based approach, and AWS and Azure certification. They will be a positive addition to the team and an independent contributor with the ability to work without supervision, 'figure out,' and overcome obstacles.
You will work closely with the Chief Architect/CTO and other software and Infrastructure engineers to develop new solution offerings and improve existing ones. This position reports to the CTO.

Responsibilities:

• Ability to manage cloud services and possess cloud migration experience
• Deep Operating System (Windows/Linux) Architecture and administration skillset
• 24x7 Operational experience
• Should support existing deployment & re-architecture.
• Take the lead on cloud recommendations and be the primary contributor on best practices development, automation ideas, and cloud adoption
• Aptitude for learning, troubleshooting and applying judgment
• Need to contribute both in Development & Support
• Study architectures and business mission requirements for to find the best road to cloud adoption
• Determine what ecosystem security features can be utilized to meet any applicable security requirements of the customer
• Work with customer technical teams from networking and engineering to architect solutions and resolve issues during migration
• A commitment to best practices along with guidance of operational processes, SysOps, DevOps, deployment checklists, and more.
• Perform hardware and software version control and maintain periodic compilation schedule.
• Provide supporting information to the software and infrastructure engineers to aid in the creation of a system specification.

Skills:

• Setting up new servers and infrastructures on AWS and Azure - Linux and Windows

• Extensive experience on Linux & Windows VMs
• Experience with command-line and administration of Linux and Windows operating systems
• Experience with System Monitoring, Vulnerability Scanning, Patch Management and Business Continuity architectures desired.
• Experience developing normalization and automation scripts using a scripting language such as Ruby, Python, Perl and/or PowerShell
• Experience in using RESTful services and working knowledge of JSON/XML
• Solid understanding of networking and core Internet protocols (e.g., TCP/IP, DNS, SMTP, HTTP, and distributed networks)
• Knowledge of ecosystem options, pricing models, and security feature-set.
• Setup new VMs & related user accounts
• Tuning configurations (i.e., log rotations & log retentions period)
• Encryption and troubleshooting
• Setup new DB accounts + related access restrictions
• GitLab pipeline creation and management
• Management of Jira, Confluence, GitHub & GitLab
• Access & accounts management

Must Have:

• A relevant Cloud certification in AWS and Azure
• 3 years or more working experience on AWS and Azure services
• 5 years or more working experience of software programming
• 5 years or more working experience on the infrastructure design and support
• Experience in Scripting
• College degree in software engineering or computer science