Cloud Platform Engineer

At CI, we see a great place to work as one that is a safe place for everyone to have a voice, where people are empowered to take ownership over meaningful work, where there is an opportunity to grow through stretching themselves, where they can work on innovative products and projects, and where employees are supported and engaged in doing so.

The Cloud Platform Engineer will work with a cross-functional team and will be responsible for designing and implementing re‑usable frameworks, APIs, CI/CD pipelines, test automation, infrastructure automation leveraging modern cloud‑native architecture and AWS services. This role will be part of a team of cloud evangelists and will be responsible for accelerating the overall transformational journey. The ideal candidate will implement best practices with best‑in‑class solutions to ensure robust cloud solutions meet dynamic IT and business needs and requirements.

• Building end-to-end cloud solutions using low-level architecture documents.
• Works closely with other IT Infrastructure Specialists, Enterprise Architects and Security to design and integrate cloud and on-premises services, enabling secure operations in the cloud environment.
• Provides leadership in infrastructure migration methodologies and techniques to migrate large scale enterprise applications and services.
• Implement Infrastructure as a Code delivery pipelines using CI/CD tools and Dev Ops Tools.
• Understand the complete deployment lifecycle from design, build, test, deploy.
• Design and deployment of pipelines consisting of Docker, ECS, and/or EKS.
• Provide expert hands‑on Core AWS technologies including: IAM, ECS, EKS, VPC, ELB, KMS, S3, Cloud Front, RDS, AWS‑CLI. Experience working with large data sets, data lake.
• Design and provide support on AWS Data Engineering Technologies—Glue, EMR, AWS Lake formation, S3 as Data Lake, DMS, Aurora Postgres.
• Practice Dev Ops (Expert Level) – Terraform, Jenkins, AWS Code Build, Artifactory, AWS Cloud Formation, Atlassian Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket.
• Demonstrate knowledge of Web APIs, UIs, infrastructure, data architecture, security, and new technologies and experience with Cloud API’s, streaming, metrics.
• Ability to script with modern languages including Power Shell, Bash, or Python.
• AWS Basic - IAM roles, resource policies, S3 buckets, Load balancers, Networking.
• Lead and educate clients on cloud deployment patterns.
• Act as an SME for implementing and building infrastructure to support CI Applications.
• Investigate and resolve any integration issues that arise during implementation.

• 5‑10 years of experience working in a Software Development or IT Operational role with at least 5 years working directly in a Cloud Engineering/Dev Ops roles.
• Proven experience and Strong knowledge of Public Cloud (AWS Preferred) in IaaS/PaaS/Serverless.
• Experience deploying and managing Containers and Container Orchestration (eg. Docker and Kubernetes).
• Strong experience in Information technology, with infrastructure and platform services automation expertise.
• Extensive experience with engineering and supporting containerization technology.
• Proven experience with Kubernetes/Open Shift and Docker.
• Experience in of industry‑leading open‑source CI/CD pipeline tools including Confluence, Jira, Rundeck, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Spinnaker, Ansible and Terraform, etc.
• Experience in hybrid cloud environments preferred.
• Experience with multiple programming languages such as Java, Python and PHP.
• Experience and knowledge of Infrastructure security environments including cloud security.
• Experience working in a SAFe, Kanban, DEVOPS, or Agile/Scrum development methodology.
• Experience and knowledge of networking concepts.
• Prior experience with information technology in a financial institution preferred.

• Bachelor’s degree within a business, computer science or equivalent experience.

• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Cloud Formation)
• Middleware (Web Logic, Tomcat, JBoss)
• JIRA, Confluence, Bamboo
• PHP, Node.js, React.js, Python,

• Champion sound cloud application architecture design and development.

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