Lead Technical Cloud Engineer

Position Summary

The Lead Cloud Engineer will serve as the principal technical, hands on leader within the IT Infrastructure organization. Lead Cloud Engineers are expected to continually interact with and support engineering teams in product development. The Lead Cloud Engineer will manage, train, and develop a team of IT professionals and work alongside other members of the IT team to support the overall mission of the Company and the end users.

Here is what this job entails:

• Direct, manage performance, and develop a team of Cloud/DevOps engineers.

• Proactively gather information and utilize analytical and creative problem-solving skills alongside standard processes and technologies resulting in efficient, secure and reliable systems.

• Generate and maintain documentation related to the architecture, design, policies and procedures.

• Stay current with advances in technology and contribute to research and evaluation of new enterprise technologies.

• Act as the subject matter expert for the entire cloud ecosystem.

• Create and maintain documents for procedures/processes and Cloud Architecture/topology diagrams.

• Optimize cloud infrastructure including ongoing configuration of related automation, notifications, monitoring and reporting capabilities.

• Recommend modifications to systems to improve efficiency, reliability, and performance for delivering application and infrastructure in the cloud.

We are looking for this kind of experience & education:

The successful candidate will possess business operations experience and skills, excellent leadership skills, superior analytical and critical thinking skills, and attention to detail. Additionally, the ideal candidate should possess the following:

• Minimum of 5 years of experience leading a team of other cloud engineers

• Comprehensive experience with AWS services including a solid understanding of S3, CloudFront, EBS, EC2, ECS, EKS, ELB/ALB, IAM, VPC, RDS, CloudTrail, ElastiCache, OpenSearch and CloudWatch, KMS, Secrets Manager, Route53.

• Comprehensive experience with CI/CD best practices

• Comprehensive experience with Kubernetes and application containerization and scaling technologies

• Comprehensive experience with Terraform, to setup automated infrastructure resources and application clusters.

• Experience with Service Mesh like Istio, Linkerd preferred

• Experience with Kafka or other streaming technologies

• Knowledge of networking fundamentals and network requirements for a hybrid cloud environment.

• Experience working within Agile software development methodology.

• Experience with Linux and Windows server operating systems.

• Ability to generate and maintain technical documentation is required.

• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal, flexibility in concepts and action, able to handle aggressive mission critical deadlines.

• Technical certification in AWS, Microsoft etc. preferably.

Lastly, you've got to have this characteristics:

• Experienced. Has designed and implemented entire projects not just individual stories.

• Curious. Isn't content with the status quo and knows that we can always improve.

• Self-directed. Can work independently while prioritizing tasks.

• Collaborative. Works with others to improve solutions.

• Empathetic. Designs are influenced by a deep understanding of the customers' needs.

Work Environment

• The work environment characteristics described here maybe encountered while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Moderate noise (i.e. business office with computers, phone, and printers, light traffic).

• Ability to work in a confined area.

• Ability to sit at a computer terminal for an extended period of time. Occasional stooping or kneeling may be necessary.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, sit, talk, hear and use hands and fingers to operate a computer keyboard and telephone.

• Specific vision abilities are required by this job due to computer work.

• Light to moderate lifting is required.

• Regular, predictable attendance is required.

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