Principal Cloud Engineer

Job Description Position Description

Automates provisioning and managing public cloud platforms using various programming languages — Go, Python, and Shell scripting. Deploys and configures software applications within public cloud environments — Amazon Web Services (AWS). Programs and implements application components using Python. Builds automation pipelines using Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) tools — Jenkins. Maintains the Kubernetes platform to facilitate containerized applications across multi-cloud (AWS) experiences.

• Develops Internet Technology (IT) processes and procedures.
• Deploys applications with GIT.
• Uses web servers — Linux — to provide a strong foundation for complex, enterprise-level data.
• Confers with systems analysts, engineers, programmers and others to design systems and to obtain information on project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements and interfaces.
• Develops or directs software system tests or validation procedures, programs, or documentation.
• Confers with systems analysts and other software engineers/developers to design systems and to obtain information on project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements and interfaces.
• Develops and oversees software system tests and validation procedures, programs, and documentation.
• Develops and oversees Kubernetes cloud platform across multi-cloud (AWS) and adds platform capabilities to support large number of application use-cases.
• Develops and oversees Cloud Infrastructure, Security, and Governance per industry standard.

Bachelor’s degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Mathematics, Physics, or a closely related field and five (5) years of experience as a Principal Cloud Engineer (or closely related occupation) developing Cloud Infrastructure processes and automating software using programming languages — Go, Python, and Shell scripting.

Or, alternatively, Master’s degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Mathematics, Physics, or a closely related field and three (3) years of experience as a Principal Cloud Engineer (or closely related occupation) developing Cloud Infrastructure processes and automating software using programming languages — Go, Python, and Shell scripting.

Candidate must also possess:

• Demonstrated Expertise (“DE”)developing and managing Cloud platforms based on Amazon Web Services (AWS) using Kubernetes.
• DE supporting analysis, design, development, deployment, maintenance, and testing of Cloud platform (AWS) automation using Go, Python, Shell scripting, and Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) using Jenkins; performing version control using Github and Artifactory for artifacts control; and performing logs and metrics tracking using Datadog.
• DE developing strategieesto build resilient and scalable foundational cloud platform capabilities and overseeing Chaos Engineering automation with AWS Cloud Infrastructure and Elastic Kubernetes Services (EKS) using Gremlin, Chaos Buffet, and AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS).
• DE developing Cloud infrastructure to support various software vendor-based solutions and installing on cloud infrastructure as per security and governance policies; and supporting infrastructure services — AWS EKS, Security Groups, EFS, Vault, and OPA Gatekeeper.