Sr Cloud Engineer

The Opportunity

"FICO's Platform Capabilities Foundational Services team is seeking an experienced AWS cloud engineer with a strong background in AWS engineering & support, DevOps, infrastructure, and message streaming technologies such as Kafka or Pulsar to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of AWS & it's portfolio of services, shared core infrastructure, and automation, along with a proven track record of success.

In this role, you will work closely with teams across many disciplines designing and supporting high performance shared infrastructure & services in AWS that support critical product requirements. You will work closely with FICO architects, developers, and engineers to ensure our AWS cloud based systems and services meet FICO standards & industry accepted best practices to maintain security, performance, and stability."  – Hiring Manager.

What You’ll Contribute

Design, build, and maintain core shared infrastructure and enterprise-scale AWS account lifecycle utilizing a number of available AWS services such as Route53, EC2, RDS, DynamoDB, AWS Organizations, and more.
Design, build, and maintain distributed systems in AWS using streaming and messaging technologies such as Kafka and Pulsar.
Work closely with developers and other engineers to ensure systems & services meet performance, availability, and scalability requirements.
Design and implement best practices for security, monitoring, and maintenance of systems.
Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to systems and services owned by the team.
Document architecture, implementation, and operation procedures.
Stay up to date with the latest developments in relevent technologies.

What We’re Seeking

Bachelor's degree in a computer science field or equivalent work experience.
Strong experience in AWS engineering (EC2, RDS, EKS, ECS, S3, EBS, IAM, DynamoDB, Cloudwatch, Cloudtrail, Organizations).
Strong experience with Pulsar and Kafka or other similar streaming and messaging technologies.
Experience in designing and implementing distributed shared infrastructure using a mixture of traditional on-premise, SaaS, and AWS cloud services.
Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, and other container technologies.
Strong understanding of networking, security, automation, and performance optimization in AWS.
Preferred AWS Certification.
Experience managing systems at scale using infrastructure as code (IaaC) tools such as Terraform or Cloudformation.
Experience with monitoring and logging technologies such as Cloudwatch, AppDynamics, Prometheus(Grafana), Splunk, Cloudtrail, etc. 
Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
Ability to work in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment.
Strong Linux and Windows Systems Engineering experience.
Preferred Jenkins, CI/CD, and scripting experience.
Desirable DevOps and Agile project experience.

Our Offer to You

An inclusive culture strongly reflecting our core values: Act Like an Owner, Delight Our Customers and Earn the Respect of Others.
The opportunity to make an impact and develop professionally by leveraging your unique strengths and participating in valuable learning experiences.
Highly competitive compensation, benefits and rewards programs that encourage you to bring your best every day and be recognized for doing so.
An engaging, people-first work environment offering work/life balance, employee resource groups, and social events to promote interaction and camaraderie.