Job Description
This position is responsible for providing secure, scalable cloud-based solutions. The Cloud Engineer ensures servers and services are configured using industry best practices for reliability and can scale environments based on client needs. You should be patient, possess strong communication skills, and demonstrate a desire to learn new technologies.
Responsibilities
- Provide and design secure, scalable solutions in the cloud for client environments
- Implement system hardening, security best practices, and configuration management across cloud infrastructure and client servers
- Build and manage code release pipelines for development, staging, and production environments
Implement and maintain infrastructure as code - Configure new CloudWatch monitoring alerts and dashboards
- Maintain uptime, service reliability, and sustainability of cloud infrastructure and hosted applications
- Maintain an accurate inventory of existing server, storage, networking, software/hardware, and virtual
- environments to support scaling for various project requirements
- Help developers and DevOps teams build new services using containers (Docker/Kubernetes)
- Identify pain points and bottlenecks in the development lifecycle, and find ways to automate processes to
- support development and IT teams
- Ensure servers and services are configured using standard best practices for reliability and scale based on client needs
- The ideal candidate for the position should have the following skills and experience:
Technical Qualifications
- Experience working on cloud providers like AWS, Azure, and GCP
- Experience in Windows Server, Linux server administration
- Experience in Amazon Services like EC2, RDS, Aurora, S3, CloudFront, VPC, ECS, etc
- Experience in creating and executing IaC using Terraform and CloudFormation
- Experience in the setup and configuration of containerization using Docker, ECS, EKS
- Good understanding of using monitoring tools like PRTG, Amazon CloudWatch, New Relic, Prometheus and Grafana
- Good understanding of networking concepts to help implement new services and troubleshoot issues—DNS,
- DHCP, software update server, deployment server, file server, firewall, routing, switching
- Good knowledge of implementing and configuring continuous integration tools like Jenkins, GitLab