CE/Cloud Engineer UOP-2220 at Effectual Full Time

Description
• Enabling customers’ use of AWS to achieve their business objectives through:
• Develop secure Kubernetes clusters to support customer operations:
• Develop secure and high available Kubernetes clusters
• Recommend tools and capabilities based on research and knowledge of technical environment and business objectives.
• Configure AWS cloud infrastructure for maximum technical and budgetary efficiency
• Identify, update, and verify operational health of resized services to reduce cloud cost.
• Collaborate with customers to ensure standards are met, adopted and implemented throughout the process.
• Implement cloud infrastructure, using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), including:
• Create Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) resources such as subnets, network access control lists, and security groups
• Create IAM users and groups
• Deploy, testing, and documenting development, pre-production, and production environments
• Compose and use Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g.: AWS CloudFormation templates, Terraform, etc.) to ensure repeatable, sustainable AWS infrastructure
• Create gold images / AMIs and configuring auto scaling
• Configure multi-factor authentication on virtual and hardware devices
• Support developers in working within AWS through:
• Create Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines
• Provide input and guidance to developers on overall AWS Architecture and design tenets
• Demonstrate an “as-code” first mindset through the regular use and advocacy of Terraform or other “as-code” tools
• Establish visibility into cloud operations through:
• Use resource tagging to allocate costs and improve resource planning
• Help prepare cost analysis based on expected usage
• Configure AWS cloud infrastructure for maximum technical and budgetary efficiency
• Support the migration of customers from on-premises environments to AWS through:
• Help develop migration plans
• Implement migration plans, which may include:
• Capture metrics for services and the application to measure health.
• Create step by step action plans a breakdown of phases of a migration.
• Implement the migration plan with the metrics and test plans to validate success throughout and during completion of a migration
• Migrate VMs using tooling such as Clumio, VMware HCX, Veeam, AWS CloudEndure.
• Confirm the migration of resources into AWS and decommissioning on-premises resources
• Support rigorous project governance and execution achieved through:
• Meet with team members daily to review progress
• Holding team members accountable for and challenging team members on technical solution implementation approaches to achieve outcomes
• Submit time on assigned projects, daily
• Support project delivery team members by:
• Always operate with transparency
• Respond to requests from team members for information
• Communicate working preferences and understand the working preferences of others to help develop a high-performing team that operates with respect and efficiency

Requirements
• 4+ years of DevOps / SRE experience working in AWS environment(s) and supporting software development team(s) consisting of at least:
• 3+ year of experience developing AWS cloud infrastructure
• 1+ year of Terraform experience
• 1+ year of experience developing CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitHub, and Azure DevOps
• 1+ year of experience creating automated alerts and monitoring dashboards
• Working knowledge of leading AWS cloud security practices
• Proficient in developing Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g.: Terraform / AWS CloudFormation)
• Proficient in coding configuration management tooling (e.g.: Ansible, Chef, Puppet, etc.)
• Proficient in at least one or more programming / scripting languages (e.g.: Python, Java, Groovy, etc.)
• Knowledge of Agile and Waterfall SDLC methodologies
• Work with multiple clients, in parallel

Benefits
• Medical, dental, and vision health insurances
• Short term disability, long term disability and life insurances
• 401k with Company match
• Paid time off (PTO) (120 hours PTO that accrue over one year)
• Paid time off for major holidays (14 days per year)
• These and any other employee benefit offerings are subject to management’s discretion and may change at any time.