Cloud Platform Engineer

Overview

Kimley-Horn’s IT Team has a challenging and rewarding opportunity for a Cloud Platform Engineer based in our Seattle office. In this role, you will be working alongside a team of five professionals who manage the execution of Cloud Solutions & Architecture supporting the Cloud development platform for our various projects, both internal and external. Ranked as one of Fortune Magazine’s “100 Best Companies to Work For,” Kimley-Horn prides itself on hiring high-achieving, dedicated professionals who are passionate about the work they do.

• Involvement in operational activities such as continuous environment health monitoring, maintaining standards, and stability across our IaaS/PaaS/SaaS environment
• Initiating incident management in the event of an issue and addressing escalations
• Implementing recommended modifications while adhering to change-management processes, vulnerability management and remediation, and engaging in disaster recovery tests
• Identifying new cloud technologies and platforms to help solve technical challenges
• Build cloud foundational components encompassing network, security, identity, operations, and governance in the cloud
• Operationalize solutions from proof-of-concept through production, using automation for repeatability, maintainability, and to enforce standards
• Designing technical architecture for cloud solutions that meet needs for scalability, reliability, availability, and performance
• Cloud capacity planning, profiling, load testing, and monitoring of cloud applications, while incorporating security best practices
• Responsible for day-to-day operations of managing cloud resources which include resource allocation, optimizing capacity, and configuration management
• Function as part of a team, involving and supporting others to get the job done

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Systems Engineering or related fields
• 2+ years of relevant experience
• Microsoft Azure certification (AZ-900, AZ-104, AZ-500, AZ-305, AZ-700)
• Knowledge of Azure IaaS, PaaS, SaaS services and foundational components of compute, storage, networking, identity and access management, security, tenant/subscriptions
• Understanding of Azure App Services architecture and deployment
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure Services such as Azure API Management, Azure Database management, Azure Security, load balancing technologies:
  Front Door & Application Gateway + Web Application Firewalls
• Experience with Azure Dev Ops for source control, continuous integration and deployment and software development lifecycle
• Experience with cloud containerization technology and configurations
• Experience in high availability, geo-distributed architecture for multi-regional applications that require improved performance and disaster recovery implementations
• Ability to automate deployments using Terraform, Power Shell, CLI, or Bicep, and manage separate environments (Development, UAT, Production) through an IaC solution
• Comfortable talking about technical issues with business partners and business issues with technical partners
• Ability to communicate clearly both verbally and in writing in diverse situations with all levels of management, vendors, clients (internal), and peers; willingness to continue to expand knowledge and experience base
• Experience with other cloud platforms such as AWS and GCP

Salary Range: $100,