Senior Cloud Engineer

Overview

We are seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer who will be responsible for driving innovation & automation that adheres to cloud architectural best practices within the FSC Azure cloud platform. This includes designing & implementing new cloud platform solutions that accelerate cloud migrations from on-prem to Azure, reduce costs, and improve overall security and resiliency of systems & workloads in Azure.

• Architect, design, & develop cloud-based solutions and provide support as an Azure SME
• Implement industry cloud best practices for security, performance, cost, & resiliency in all aspects of design & implementation
• Drive proof-of-concept prototypes that assess the feasibility of solutions and demonstrate to our customer how technology can be leveraged
• Optimize the existing cloud migration process by introducing more automation into existing workflows with the end goal of improving cloud operations & speeding up on-premise to cloud migrations
• Promote continual improvement through automation of existing cloud tools & pipelines
• Improve upon existing cloud monitoring tools & alerting for cloud-hosted systems to ensure cloud systems’ availability, reliability, security, and cost efficiency are optimal
• Automate deployment pipelines in a scalable, secure and reliable manner
• Troubleshoot issues with application deployments to Azure
• Assist in provisioning and maintaining cloud infrastructure
• Support the IS team in maintaining the Terraform Enterprise server & performing version upgrades
• Collaborate with other Engineers, Developers, DBAs, System Administrators and Product teams when designing new or improving existing cloud solutions
• Create knowledge-base articles for new tools and processes you implement
• Act as technical expert on Dev Sec Ops  infrastructure projects pertaining to systems management, design and architecture

Required Skills and Experience:

• Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust security clearance
• 10 years of experience as an Engineer or similar role with a Bachelor's degree in computer science, systems engineering, or related technical discipline (8 years of additional relevant experience may substitute for education)
• Expert-level knowledge of Azure ecosystems at scale
• Experience building an maintaining Azure infrastructure through the use of Terraform (IaC) templates
• Prior experience with CI/CD tools such as Github Workflows
• Experience setting up, maintaining and developing on an ongoing basis continuous build/ integration infrastructure & pipelines
• Strong scripting experience with Powershell, Python, BASH, etc
• Three (3) years of experience and proven success in Azure design, support and management within a large-scale organization
• Experience building and deploying with Linux, UNIX and Windows technologies
• Prior experience working in development frameworks such as .NET, JAVA, or similar language
• Understanding of industry standard system architecture and system management concepts and tools

Nice to Have:

• Azure associate level or higher certifications
• Software development experience in an enterprise setting
• AWS Experience
• Excellent writing skills
• Excellent oral communication and presentation skills

Description

We are seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer who will be responsible for driving innovation & automation that adheres to cloud architectural best practices within the FSC Azure cloud platform.

This includes designing & implementing new cloud platform solutions that accelerate cloud migrations from on-prem to Azure, reduce costs, and improve overall security and resiliency of systems & workloads in Azure.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust security clearance
• 10 years of experience as an Engineer or similar role with a Bachelor's degree in computer science, systems engineering, or related technical discipline (8 years of additional relevant experience may substitute for education)
• Expert-level knowledge of Azure ecosystems at scale
• Experience building an maintaining Azure infrastructure through the use of Terraform (IaC) templates
• Prio…