The Senior Cloud Engineer position is an individual contributor role. He/she will work as an interface between Developers, Business, Operations, and Support staff. He/she is passionate about designing and developing Cloud solutions. The position requires senior-level proficiency in cloud-technologies, hands-on coding skills, and the ability to translate high-level business requirements into technology execution.
What we are looking for in our candidate:
- Use DevOps/Agile as the core philosophy for Cloud Infrastructure Provisioning / Configuration / Delivery.
- Agile software delivery process using AzureDevops (including breaking down work into modular tasks, updating/tracking task status/work log entries for sprint management), Stash/Git (source code management including branching strategy, code review),
- Expertise and hands-on working with Ansible (auto-configuration using zero-downtime application deployment techniques).
- Expertise and hands-on working with Cloud Providers: AWS, Azure or GCP.
- Expertise and hands-on working with Terraform or any other IAC framework.
- Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs
- Proactively communicate and collaborate with internal customers to analyze information needs and functional requirements and deliver the following artifacts as needed: Functional/Business Requirements, High-Level Architecture, System Requirements, Design Documents, Wireframe, etc
- Successfully engage in multiple initiatives simultaneously.
- Work independently with users to define concepts and under the direction of product owner, project managers.
- Drive and challenge business units on their assumptions of how they will successfully execute their plans.
- Serves as the conduit between the business/customer community and the software development team through which requirements flow
- Develop infrastructure requirements specifications according to standard templates.
- Experience in troubleshooting infrastructure resources issues and taking on-fly decisions.
What you can we are our expectations for this role:
Infrastructure Provisioning and Automation:
- Understanding of Terraform Data Structures and Functions to create IaC manifests.
- Familiarity with Terraform Opensource and TFC.
- Fluency and hands-on to deploy infrastructure with terraform using Azure | AWS provider.
- Experience to create Terraform configuration manifests from scratch.
- Experience and hands-on to define Terraform Blueprints for modules and deployment manifest from scratch.
- Familiarity to use modules and configuration manifest into different landscapes with DRY approach(Workspaces, Variables)
- Fluency to transform infrastructure requirements into terraform code.
- Extensive fluency to create / modify / refactor terraform modules from scratch.
- Experience working with Git Repositories for Modules Control Version and Lifecycle with Azure DevOps and GitHub.
- Experience working with Terraform Cloud and Modules Registries with AzureDevops.
- Fluency and hands-on to define terraform sentinel policies with alignment with Security and Governance.
- Good understanding of Azure Policies / Custom Roles to be applied and used when creating Terraform Policies and Terraform Deployments.
Infrastructure Configuration / Automation
- Fluency in one or mode scripting languages including Bash, Python, or PowerShell.
- Familiarity with configuration management system and understanding of configuration as Code - Ansible.
- Familiarity with Ansible Galaxy and Private Git Repositories for Roles and Collection Lifecycle.
- DEMONSTRATE Experience and fluency to crate Ansible Playbooks, Roles, Collections, and Inventories (static and dynamic) from scratch.
- Fluency with Ansible and AzureDevops CI/CD pipelines for configuration management (Ansible Playbook must be run using AzureDevops CI/CD pipelines, similar to use GitLab Pipelines / GitHub Actions).
- Fluency with AzureDevops to be used as Repository for roles, collection, and playbooks lifecycle.
- Experience with Ansible and Windows Hosts configuration management.
- Fluency and Familiarity to work with Ansible Tower, RedHat Satellite for RHEL deployments, and configuration management for Linux and Windows Hosts.
Extra-Skills Sysadmin | Cloud Sys Operations:
- Strong confidence to manage cloud infrastructure resources in Azure | AWS.
- Demonstrable hands-on experience managing Linux systems (RHEL, Debian, Ubuntu).
Desired Certifications:
- Azure Administrator - AZ 104
- Terraform Associated Certification - Desired.
Cloud Providers to work with: