Senior Cloud Engineer

Hire Type: Contract 

The Cloud Engineer will provide the required support for our hybrid compute environment. This role will provide support, implementation, and design services for cloud and related banking applications. This role will be resolving, and appropriately completing assigned cases and change requests, as well as acting as an escalation for support issues. The Cloud Engineer will apply new solutions through research and collaboration within the team, as well as collaborate with other IT teams.

Job Description/ Responsibilities

" Design, configuration, and support of a hybrid cloud environment (Azure/AWS).

" Create, modify, delete cloud resources to include VMs, PaaS, storage, NIC, VNET, peer routing, NSGs, ASGs, traffic manager and front door, load balancers, Azure firewall, API Gateway and other capabilities.

" Assist in setting technical direction for the architecture of cloud technologies.

" Establish practices to ensure quality and consistency.

" Script and automate routine tasks (Security Groups, ec2 deployments, etc.) working with the infrastructure as code team.

" Set up and maintain alternate data processing sites and workarounds during outage situations.

" Develop documentation, user manuals, and policy and procedure information.

" Create a strategy plan for deployments, define structure for production/DR environments.

" Report to management daily on project status, deployment results, and daily operations.

" Provide technical assistance to technical services, development staff, project consultants, and support personnel in other departments.

" Participate on-call support on rotation.

" Work with stakeholders to achieve business goals.

" Document SOPs and help jr team members.

" Document system designs, present to technical review boards and CABs for changes and standards.

" Work with EA team to declare engineering standards.

" Work with vulnerability team to remediate on issues.

" Develop strategies to meet business goals

Top Skills

"1. " Azure Virtual Machines, Azure App Service, Azure SQL Database, Azure Storage, and Azure Networking. Proficiency in one or more programming languages, such as PowerShell."

"2. " AWS Service and Cloud Technology, virtual private clouds (VPCs), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Availability Zones, and AWS Regions. and load balancers. "

" Bachelors Degree required or Certification with work experience in a related field

" Minimum 7 years overall IT experience

" 5+ years experience in Azure Cloud

" 7+ years in system engineering

" 3+ years in AWS Administration.

" Strong troubleshooting skills.

" Team Player with a can do attitude with proven leadership, communication, organizational, and strong interpersonal skills. The role requires significant interaction with many different teams across a global company.

" Ability to support business requirements and provide appropriate solutions using technology.

" Self-motivated, with keen attention to detail and excellent judgment skills, one who can lead as well as follow. Able to integrate and apply feedback in a professional manner.

" Project Management knowledge and understanding of Scrum and Agile workflows.

" Preferred:

" Desired experience working in a fast-paced Industrial environment with a career track record of engineering, developing, deploying, and maintaining business-critical systems in the area of technical expertise including hands-on solution development and implementation experience.

" Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or equivalent experience

" Experience in the financial services industry with proven regulatory and compliance discipline.

" Experience in VM provisioning, Dynamic and Static routing, Configuring Microsoft Internal / External Load Balancers, PowerShell scripting

" Experience in Configuring Vnets, Subnets, Configuring Azure Active Directory Sync, Configuring Network Security Groups (NGS), Access Control Lists (ACL),

" Experience with large, enterprise core platforms and providers, mobile and digital platforms, and system integration technologies.

" Experience with active directory and azure active directory, ztad, integration with MFA, Okta, cyberark, sailpoint

" Broad experience in, but not limited to, cloud and on-prem hybrid solutions, O365, exchange and conditional access.

" Demonstrated ability to think strategically, deliver innovation, and drive improved customer and employee experience.

" Excellent analytical and business consulting skills with demonstrated experience in strategic planning, program execution, and development of strong risk management practices

" Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate complex issues to technical and non-technical audiences and senior management.

" Proven ability to build strong, cohesive, partnerships with business, operations, and technology leadership and work effectively in a matrix organization

" Demonstrated leadership; proven track record of leading complex, multidisciplinary talent teams in new endeavors and delivering solutions, including both software engineering and support.