Cloud Engineer

Job Purpose

The New York Stock Exchange, a subsidiary of Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (ICE) presents a great opportunity for a full-time hands-on Engineer to join a team responsible for the NYSE Cloud Infrastructure and to work with cutting edge technology.

We are solving some unique large-scale problems for network, storage and compute with our infrastructure both on-prem and in cloud.

We are looking for a candidate who has a firm grasp of emerging technologies, platforms, and applications and an ability to customize them.

Extensive knowledge of cloud maintenance, and advanced industry knowledge are essential to keep us on the cutting edge. The Cloud Engineer will have an immediate and ongoing impact on growth.

This position requires technical proficiency/problem solving, an eager attitude, professionalism, and solid communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Possess strong hands-on IaC knowledge to build, deploy and maintain platforms in the cloud.
• Develop and implement technical efforts to design, build, and deploy AWS applications, including large-scale data processing, computationally intensive statistical modeling, and advanced analytics.
• Design, build, modify, and maintain highly scalable and fault-tolerant AWS infrastructure. Experience with other hyperscalers like GCP and Azure is a plus.
• Deploy, validate, and document different software as well as SAAS products in the Cloud.
• Interact with development teams to help implement optimized Cloud env setup.
• Research, identify, and implement best practices for Cloud deployment as well as various software products.
• Define, document, and conduct training on cloud infrastructure and software products.
• Educate teams on the implementation of new cloud-based initiatives, providing associated training when necessary.
• Manage the workload and deliverables of a small team of cloud engineers.

Knowledge and Experience

• 4+ years of experience with AWS is a must.
• 4+ years of experience in setup, deployment and management of systems provisioning and configuration management frameworks such as Docker, Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK, Pulumi etc.
• 3+ years of experience with the Linux command line, shell scripting, automation of common tasks, and configuration of system monitoring tools.
• 2+ years of experience in Python or BASH (At least one).
• Knowledge and experience of automation scripts for provisioning and auto-scaling of infrastructure.
• Knowledge of Integrated monitoring tools: Datadog, New-relic, Splunk etc.
• Experience working in a continuous integration environment.
• Solid understanding of Agile development lifecycle.
• Stay up to date on all current and future AWS/GCP/Azure services and tools and provide guidance and evangelism on how best to make use of cloud infrastructure to support company growth.
• Possess expert-level understanding of Git and software version control and code deployment best practices; proven ability to design and develop automated code deployment scripts.
• Ensure accessibility, security, reliability, availability, and performance of infrastructure.
• Able to evangelize a DevOps culture of automation, self-service, and engineering best practices to enable development teams to go from development to production with a minimum effort.
• One or more AWS Certifications are a must.
• Full stack development background is a big plus.