Cloud Engineer

Role: Cloud Engineer

Location: Columbus, OH/Plano, TX/Jersey City, NJ

Duration: Long term

Rate: Market

Responsibilities

• Performs deployment, administration, management, configuration, testing, and integration tasks related to the cloud migration activities.
• Help develop new cloud strategies and implementations for the firm.
• Support the Firm's goals in cloud adoption through hands on interaction with development teams to cultivate a cloud first mindset in transitioning workloads.
• Provides support to develop & improve the quality of technical engineering documentation.
• Provides support to drive the maturity of the software development lifecycle.
• Makes decisions of a global, strategic nature by analyzing complex data systems and incorporating knowledge of other lines of business & company standards.
• Advanced understanding of technology drivers and their impact on architecture design, performance and monitoring, best practices and company policies.
• Ensures all engineering activities are in conformance with company policies and objectives.
• Leads the development of product technology roadmap & engineering documentation.
• Leads proof of concept research and development in line with emerging industry trends.
• Leads product design, development, and transition to operations.
• Provides quality control of engineering deliverables.
• Provides technical consultation to product management.
• Provides technical interface between development and operations teams.
• Leverage DevOps tools to build, harden, maintain and instrument a comprehensive cloud-based security orchestration platform for infrastructure as code.
• Develop automated security and compliance capabilities in support of DevOps processes in a large-scale cloud computing environment.
• Requirements
• Bachelor's Degree in a relative technical field or equivalent field experience.
• 5+ years of software engineering experience to include implementation of highly scalable systems, release management, software configuration, design, development and implementation is required.
• Public/Private Cloud experience in a mission critical environment including:

o Ability to analyzing complex data systems - failure analysis / root cause analysis

o Developing, improving and maintaining technical engineering documentation

o Roadmap development and ability to evangelize / champion benefits to internal consumers

• Deep understanding of cloud computing technologies and experience with workload migration to cloud
• Understanding of core concepts for Public/Private/Hybrid clouds (networking, policy placement, IAM, etc.)
• Experience designing visibility outputs intended to establish baselines and prove security posture against implemented controls
• Demonstrated expertise in Agile, creating competitive advantage through the application of leading-edge technologies and methodologies
• Knowledge of industry wide technology trends and best practices
• Ability to work in large, collaborative teams to achieve organizational goals, and passionate about building an innovative culture
• Preferred qualifications: Experience with container technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos, or Open Container Initiative (OCI); CI/CD experience utilizing tools such as Github, Terraform, Jenkins, etc