Cloud Engineer; AWS

PANEL INTERVIEW WILL BE ONSITE

*** US Citizen or GC Holder only (no c2c/c2h)***

*** Must agree to come onsite 2-3x weekly or as needed***

The Technology Software Engineer (Cloud Engineer) – supports IT Infrastructure platforms and technologies hosted on-premises and in AWS Virtual Private Cloud. This role is responsible for Cloud Engineering and will provide technical cloud engineering subject matter expertise for multiple technology projects in support of the hosted cloud applications. This includes enhancing and building tools to drive enhancements of cloud operations, crafting high performance service solutions for enabling better cloud software–enabled operations, continuous deployment to build cloud technologies of the future and build solution parity across platforms.

• Designing the cloud infrastructure, designing the cloud application architecture, and designing the cloud security architecture and ensuring project compliance with IT security policies, best practices and branch standards.
• Working with IT staff and management, and cloud technology vendors to plan, design, build, implement, and support new and existing cloud hosting services.
• Build tools and automation to PSEG LI achieve better availability, scalability, latency and efficiency.
• Monitor production and development environments to build preventive measures to enable a fail‑safe experience to our customers.
• Document and communicate clearly to architect and implement solutions.
• Work closely across teams and bridge the gap between product managers, architects, and implement reliable consistent solutions.
• Work with delivery teams on software improvements to achieve higher availability and lower mean time to discovery (MTTD).
• Work with the groups within IT and Cyber security for related Infrastructure projects and initiatives including security policies for endpoint devices.
• Interface with other areas of IT for engineering and infrastructure support.
• Work within established configuration and change management policies to ensure awareness, approval and success of changes made to the environment.
• Ensure Quality Control and Assurance procedures are consistent with Infrastructure specifications, client requirements and corporate policies.
• Perform reviews and/or Root Cause Analysis on production systems failures, formulate corrective action plans, ensure corrective actions are implemented, and track their effectiveness.
• Requires working in a 24x7 environment with callout.

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Math or related technical field.
• A minimum of 4 years of experience within the IT field or an industry with reliance on technical expertise.
• Demonstrated knowledge of Information Technology principles including Infrastructure support, system administration, and application support and/or application development techniques.
• Excellent knowledge of cloud computing technologies, cloud service providers and current cloud computing trends.
• Deep understanding of ALB, EC2, ECS, S3, and networking including VPC ad and VPN configurations.
• Strong understanding of AWS security best practices, including VPC design, IAM roles and policies.
• Strong working experience in developing Infrastructure as Code Cloud Formation templates for Infrastructure automation.
• Ability diagnose and resolve complex Infrastructure issues in mixed on‑prem and AWS environment workloads.
• Experience in the identification and recommendation of top cloud architecture solutions to successfully meet the strategic needs of an organization.
• Experience working on multiple simultaneous IT projects throughout the entire life cycle.
• Experience managing technical projects, including conflict resolution, issue escalations, status reporting and resource management.
• Knowledgeable of enterprise network infrastructure design concepts such as:
  Client / server system architecture, routing, switching, security, remote access, proxy.
• Cloud hosting solutions and migration to cloud services.
• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot and make recommendations using critical thinking, sound judgment, and…