AWS Cloud Engineer

The Cloud Engineer will spearhead the development of the Cloud program and DevOps practice, and partner with IT and business stakeholders to ensure the delivery of transformative solutions.

This position requires a balance of leadership, customer focus, urgency and technical excellence.

K ey Functions:
Define and lead the execution of the technology roadmap for our Cloud journey Responsible for instantiating the Cloud governance and processes needed in public cloud Coordinate efforts with application, development, QA, and infrastructure teams to educate and uplift teams and grow the organization’s cloud and automation capabilities Partner with internal stakeholders to optimize enterprise DevOps tooling for code bases utilized by Application Development and Product Teams Build highly automated infrastructure provisioning process in order to enable the build, deploy, and testing of new software Interact with senior management and be adept at conveying technical issues in business speak and vice versa Work with vendors and internal stakeholders to evaluate and implement Cloud and DevOps solutions in alignment with our vision and architectural principles Understand business problems that drive the demand for scalable infrastructure and automation Ensure regulatory compliance through cloud governance by partnering with internal security and audit teams
Requirements :
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field required 10+ years’ experience in System Engineering (Compute, Network, Databases, Storage), DevOps, CI/CD Hands-on experience with all aspects of cloud infrastructure lifecycle Expert level knowledge of AWS services and solutions and experience with all aspects of cloud infrastructure lifecycle Strong command of both on premise and cloud infrastructure (SaaS, PaaS and IaaS) Experience with the Data Lake and Analytics Platforms with a preference for AWS solutions (Lake Formation, Snowball, Storage Gateway, Kinesis, etc.) Deep experience in automation platforms and tools (Terraform, Cloud Formation Templates, Infrastructure as Code, Azure Resource Manager, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, etc.) Experience leveraging programming and scripting languages for automation including PowerShell, Python, Rub, JavaScript, or C Define and drive end-to-end agile DevOps based software development life cycle with automation in mind (right tools/processes) Capable of engaging development staff and being hands-on at engineering & architecture, ready to dive into newer/emerging technologies to set the path for the organization Agile SCRUM or Kanban experience
Additional Preferred Qualifications
AWS Associate or Professional certifications Master’s degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, or related field Experience in banking or financial services sector highly desired SOX, PCI, and ITIL experience highly desired