IT Cloud Engineer

Genesis
10 is currently seeking an IT Cloud Engineer for a 6+ month contract position in Inver Grove Heights, MN.

Compensation: $70.00 - 74.00 per hour, W2, depending on skill and experience level.

As an IT Cloud Engineer, you will be responsible for using your technical skills to solve business problems. You will assess the cloud architecture from a technical lens and implement recommendations that will drive cost reduction and improve service quality by working with product teams. This is your opportunity to apply cloud engineering expertise to deliver a solution for the enterprise.

If you have a passion for Cloud, Dev Ops, Automation, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) this is the role for you.

• Be part of a team that creates, maintains, and supports our cloud environments.
• Work with product teams to engineer and translate their requests into cloud related operational actions.
• Explore new capabilities and patterns within cloud.
• Embed within a product team to understand the needs of the application.
• Work with the product team members to upskill their cloud capabilities.
• Understand, implement, and automate security controls, governance processes, and compliance validations.
• Design and maintain automation processes and ensure that all things that should be automated, are automated responsibly.
• Implement systems that are highly available, scalable, and self-healing.
• Work with infrastructure as code for provisioning, configuration management and CI/CD pipeline.
• Ensure compliance with the company tagging standards.
• Partner with cloud platform engineering team to enable standardized cloud services.
• Look to migrate to cloud native services where possible.
• Participate in migration activity from on-premises to cloud using cloud native technology.
• Identify dependencies within application to be migrated to the cloud.
• Provide configuration assistance of application migrating into cloud.
• Work with the product teams to understand and optimize the capabilities in cloud to reduce cost and align to business needs.
• Provide tooling for source control and automated delivery.
• Work with the backup team to understand their product and aid with infrastructure as code, including cost optimization analysis and identifying over provisioning.
• Develop Self-Service and code representations for enterprise scheduler jobs.
• Collaborate with international IT teams, the Database Platform team, and the Monitoring team to ensure consistent cloud engineering practices and support global infrastructure.

• 2 or more years of experience in an enterprise IT Engineering role with the following disciplines:
  Leading large and complex projects to completion, managing multiple priorities, mentoring others, and core technologies (OS, Data, Middleware).
• 2 or more years as an IT Developer Engineer with the following disciplines:
  Participating in the optimization or code creation of improving an existing promotion process, building automation capabilities for either code promotion or infrastructure as code, designing a new process to leverage a cloud native technology.
• AWS cloud practitioner certified and have worked with the AWS platform for at least 2 years.
• Experience as a cloud engineer, primarily with AWS.
• Comfortable working cross-functionally with other teams.
• Experience with automation tooling to provision cloud infrastructure (ie. Terraform, Cloud Formation, CLI, ARM Template).
• Must stay up to date with new services and offerings that AWS provides.

• Experience with Commvault or other backup technologies.
• Understanding of enterprise scheduler programs (ie. Tidal).
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Management Information Systems.
• 5 or more years of experience in an enterprise IT Engineering role.
• Dev Ops experience including developing software with an intermediate level troubleshooting and diagnostic skillsets and providing technical solutions.
• Systems programming experience with the ability to enhance, update, modify, test, and debug systems within the area they support as well as provide some guidance and consultation to business users.
• Presentation and facilitation experience; ability to communicate in both…