Sr. Cloud Platform Engineer

Sr. Cloud Platform Engineer

Job Responsibilities

Responsible for managing all infrastructure platforms across all cloud environments

Design, implement, and manage highly scalable and reliable infrastructure platforms to support SLA's and business continuity plans

Lead the effort to automate and set up traditional infrastructure components as well as cloud native infrastructure and middleware in both on-premises and public cloud environments heavily utilizing Infrastructure as Code practices

Install and manage middleware platforms as part of the cloud native application ecosystem in order to meet well defined service level objectives

Plan, document, implement, and oversee infrastructure upgrades and configuration changes.

Recommend and evaluate modern technologies based on business, end-user, and technology requirements

Assist in disaster recovery planning and testing

Build relationships with other technical and business teams

Practice an everything as code philosophy

Mentor junior members of the team

STANDARD CORPORATE FUNCTIONS:

Live company vision & values

Actively participate in FABW (Finding a Better Way)

Assist with budget preparation for server upgrades, licensing, etc.

Develop skills and abilities appropriate to the position

Support corporate efforts for safety, government compliance, and all other company policies & procedures

Perform other related duties as required and assigned

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or other highly technical scientific discipline or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.

• 5+ years' IT experience

• 3+ years public cloud experience

• Demonstrate the ability to set goals and define strategy

• Excellent communication, customer service, problem-solving, mentoring, and analytical skills

• A proactive approach to spotting problems, areas for improvement, and performance bottlenecks

• Familiarity with traditional infrastructure solutions such as hypervisors, SAN, NAS

• Experience with Windows Operating Systems

• Available for off-hour work on a scheduled basis as well as participation in an on-call rotation

• Familiarity with ITIL Framework

• Proven experience with Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform services, including deployment, configuration, and management of resources.

• Demonstrate hands-on expertise in technologies in public cloud technologies including IaaS solutions, virtualization, networking, security, IAM, storage solutions, PaaS solutions including gateway servers, database services, and application services.

• Familiarity with DevOps tools, Cloud templates and IaaC tools for infrastructure automation (Azure DevOps, ARM templates, and Terraform strongly preferred).

• Understanding of cloud security, governance, and cost management best practices.

• Preferred: Knowledge in Linux Operating Systems

• Preferred: Knowledge and experience with Microsoft Azure and / or Google Cloud Platform