Senior Cloud Engineer ,Permanent Role in NY

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Company: Suncap Technology, Inc.

Location: New York, NY 10025

Description:

Remote position, but must be in New York only.

Full description
  • Position Summary Works across multiple application domains to lead infrastructure deployments of home grown, open-source and vendor supported applications.
  • This role leads by example and explores new technologies so as to mentor others and find new methods of innovation.
  • This role works with and understands the business perspective and is able to translate that into concrete, automated Infrastructure as Code technical solutions.
  • Job Responsibilities Implements hybrid IT by integrating different cloud services with back-end, traditional data center services.
  • Migrates legacy applications to public cloud services in a rehosting ("lift and shift") approach or in a revising approach for efficiency, agility and disaster recovery (DR).
  • Collaborates with developers and owns the "Ops" part of DevOps to ensure that cloud-native workloads are deployed according to IT best practices for security, governance, identity and access management, and monitoring.
  • Provides expert level design and operational practices for AWS. Owns critical aspects of technology operations in areas including Production, deployment process automation, monitoring, and security.
  • Ensures alignment between security architecture frameworks, standards, and overall IT cloud strategy.
  • Creates and maintains build scripts, templates and other artifacts for the Infrastructure stack.
  • Supports Continuous Integration (CI) and build servers, and ensures adherence to CI principles.
  • Supports the migration of applications to the cloud infrastructure and assists in the analysis, tuning, and re-architecture when necessary to ensure adherence to business requirements.
  • Education Bachelor's Degree Experience Bachelor's degree (Computer Science or related field preferred), or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • A total of 5+ years IT experience with a minimum of 1 year experience with AWS installation, and configuration of Cloud Automation tools.
  • Experience working with Linux/UNIX and Docker containers.
  • Experience working with configuration and deployment tools like SaltStack, Terraform and Jenkins.
  • Database experience, including knowledge of SQL and NoSQL, and related data stores such as Postgres.
  • Demonstrated Experience working with AWS to provide highly-available, secure, and reliable services that take advantage of AWS's catalog of pre-existing solutions where possible.
  • Experience with both ITIL and DevOps practices. AWS Solutions Architect Associate or Professional a plus.
  • Additional experience with Azure or Google CP a plus.
  • Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Understanding of infrastructure and security requirements, such as HIPAA, PCI, FERPA, etc.
  • Ability to script and develop integrations as necessary.
  • Knowledge of web services, API and REST.
  • Strong awareness of networking and internet protocols, including TCP/IP, DNS, SMTP, HTTP and distributed networks

Qualifications
  • Bachelor's Degree
  • A total of 5+ years IT experience with a minimum of 1 year experience with AWS installation, and configuration of Cloud Automation tools
  • Experience working with Linux/UNIX and Docker containers
  • Experience working with configuration and deployment tools like SaltStack, Terraform and Jenkins
  • Database experience, including knowledge of SQL and NoSQL, and related data stores such as Postgres
  • Demonstrated Experience working with AWS to provide highly-available, secure, and reliable services that take advantage of AWS's catalog of pre-existing solutions where possible
  • Experience with both ITIL and DevOps practices
  • Understanding of infrastructure and security requirements, such as HIPAA, PCI, FERPA, etc
  • Ability to script and develop integrations as necessary
  • Knowledge of web services, API and REST
  • Strong awareness of networking and internet protocols, including TCP/IP, DNS, SMTP, HTTP and distributed networks
  • Ability to assess benefit versus risk of implementing technologies
  • Ability to think creatively, strategically and act tactically
  • Excellent communication skills (both verbal and written)
  • Licenses and Certifications

Responsibilities
  • Works across multiple application domains to lead infrastructure deployments of home grown, open-source and vendor supported applications
  • This role leads by example and explores new technologies so as to mentor others and find new methods of innovation
  • This role works with and understands the business perspective and is able to translate that into concrete, automated Infrastructure as Code technical solutions
  • Implements hybrid IT by integrating different cloud services with back-end, traditional data center services
  • Migrates legacy applications to public cloud services in a rehosting ("lift and shift") approach or in a revising approach for efficiency, agility and disaster recovery (DR)
  • Collaborates with developers and owns the "Ops" part of DevOps to ensure that cloud-native workloads are deployed according to IT best practices for security, governance, identity and access management, and monitoring
  • Provides expert level design and operational practices for AWS
  • Owns critical aspects of technology operations in areas including Production, deployment process automation, monitoring, and security
  • Ensures alignment between security architecture frameworks, standards, and overall IT cloud strategy
  • Creates and maintains build scripts, templates and other artifacts for the Infrastructure stack
  • Supports Continuous Integration (CI) and build servers, and ensures adherence to CI principles
  • Supports the migration of applications to the cloud infrastructure and assists in the analysis, tuning, and re-architecture when necessary to ensure adherence to business requirements
  • As a technology services professional you will have exposure and/or access to confidential information, including highly regulated and highly sensitive data, as part of your normal duties

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