Description

Position Summary

The Senior Cloud Engineer is responsible for the strategy, design, development and implementation and maintenance of cloud and on premise infrastructure; supporting production and development projects across ACORD & ASG. This process includes optimization, monitoring, patching/maintenance, troubleshooting and supporting the end-to-end release process within our infrastructure and deployment pipeline. As a Senior Cloud Engineer, you will have a firm grasp of emerging technologies, platforms, and applications and an ability to customize them for client core systems.

Position Responsibilities

 

  • Works in tandem with VP Technology Shared Services and App teams to design the appropriate Infra architecture.
  • Creates and enforces policies required for data management standards, physical and logical security, disaster recovery, data systems accessibility, and maintenance.
  • Creates IaaC templates using CloudFormation.
  • Maintains education on and proposes new technologies for improvements required to the computer systems infrastructure.
  • Must work with all departments to ensure corporate infrastructure is maintained as new systems are proposed, developed, and implemented.
  • Maintains knowledge on company products, services, and distribution systems to ensure they are supported by the internal computer systems.
  • Responsible to analyze, propose, and present new technologies to SVP of Standards/ IT.
  • Designs Network Topology diagrams.
  • Educates staff on AWS best practices and recommendations.
  • Exercises absolute discretion in handling confidential and sensitive information.

     

Education & Essential Skills

 

  • BS in computer sciences or equivalent preferred.
  • Certifications on Amazon Web Services.
  • Programming skills using Boto3.
  • Good understanding of AWS CLI.
  • Strong knowledge of systems management skills and 3rd party tools.
  • Strong knowledge in Automation/DevOps; scripting and tooling.
  • Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
  • Ability to communicate across all levels of the organization.

     

Experience

 

  • 3+ years of working experience on AWS infra setup; architecting, designing, developing and implement cloud solutions
  • Minimum of two years of Cloud/IaaS experience; AWS and Azure Preferred
  • Minimum of five years with Linux and Windows Server experience

Education

Any Graduate