As a Cloud Engineer of the Cloud Platform team, you will play a crucial role in architecting and implementing fully automated (IAAC/Terraform), secure, reliable, scalable & resilient multi-cloud/hybrid-cloud solutions. The Cloud Engineer will be part of a highly technical and cross-functional team and work closely with cloud/DevOps engineers, platform delivery lead, solution architects, enterprise architects, and other stakeholders. The ideal candidate for this role is a self-starter who can work independently with minimal oversight, has an agile/DevOps mindset, is an SME in building cloud products, and has a passion to learn.

Objectives and Responsibilities

• Work closely with solution architects, cloud engineers and provide support to product manager, ensuring designs align with technical and business direction across the company
• Write clean, high-performance, well-tested infrastructure code (Terraform – Must have) with a focus on reusability and automation (i.e. Shell, Python, Ansible, etc.)
• Experience with the automation of landing zone environments through CI/CD process.
• Work collaboratively with Cloud/DevOps developers, platform delivery lead, solution architects, enterprise architects to define and develop secure, highly scalable enterprise cloud products
• Explore and recommend new technologies/services for implementing application patterns.
• Articulate the advantages of various solution options
• Provide recommendations on architectural changes in order to improve efficiency, reliability and performance and to reduce cost
• Support platform delivery lead on the prioritization of the product backlog, refining product roadmap, reporting, KPIs & releases
• Actively participate and contribute on all sprint ceremonies (daily stand-up, sprint planning, sprint retro, sprint demo and backlog grooming)
• Collaborate with Cloud/DevOps engineers to solve technical and design problems
• Conduct and oversee design & code reviews
• Define platform software engineering standards and ensure compliance

Technical Design, Development  & Problem Solving

• Technical leader with specialized skills/knowledge, that is recognized across the organization for their expertise and technical leadership
• Research new ways of developing complex solutions partnering with EA; be able to freely challenge solutions
• Publishes articles or demo’s technical advancements in their area to their team and the larger organization
• Help others troubleshoot and resolve complex issues

Execution & Delivery

• Provide technical leadership for complex, long term initiatives
• Provide communication to leadership on progress & gaps
• Provide authoritative expertise to others by advising on prioritization, planning, and execution of projects within the subdomain
  Software Engineering Excellence
• Collaborate with colleagues, share ideas, and contribute to the overall success of the group by enforcing software engineering standards
• Leads research and initiatives pushing the boundaries for solutions solving technical problems
• Leads the team and coaches other members on creating efficient and high performing frameworks
• Leads and implements best practices for continuous delivery and continuous integration frameworks

Leadership

• Mentor all team members regardless of their level
• Develop collaborative partnerships with internal partners
• Contribute material time to developing junior and mid-level team members
• Leads the team on technical decisions and helps drive other team members towards solutions

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent, 8 years in architecting and implementing fully automated (IAAC/Terraform), secure, reliable, scalable & resilient multi-cloud/hybrid-cloud solution.
• 3+ Years of Azure cloud infrastructure engineer experience
• Azure certification (e.g., Solution Architect, Developer, Administrator, DevOps)
• Experience leading team of 3 to 5 engineers and was accountable for an entire end to end solution from POC to production implementation
• Subject matter expert in Cloud Security and/or Cloud Networking –
• Experience with network infrastructure (e.g. setting up and managing firewalls, WAFs, network segregation, network sharing, VPNs and network ACLs)
• Experience with DevOps concepts, tools (containers, (CI/CD – Github, Github Action, Jenkins, Artifactory, Ansible, etc.) and emerging technologies
• Experience with on-prem to cloud migration
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Able to thrive in a collaborative and cross-functional environment

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5+ years of Azure cloud infrastructure engineer experience
• Preferred to have Azure Specialty certification — Security/Networking
• CKA Certification (preferred) – Certified Kubernetes Administrator or CKAD – Certified Kubernetes Application Developer