Principal Cloud Engineer

26 Nov 2024

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Who are we? For the past 20 years, we have powered many Digital Experiences for the Fortune 500. Since 1999, we have grown from a few people to more than 4000 team members across the globe that are engaged in various Digital Modernization. For a brief 1 minute video about us, you cancheck https://youtu.be/uJWBWQZEA6o.

What are we looking for?

Principal Cloud Engineer

Contract

Charlotte, NC (Onsite from day one)The

Principal Cloud Engineers are responsible for influencing and informing Technology’s hybrid cloud computing strategy, roadmap, prioritization, and delivery of features across our hosting environments. The Principal Cloud Engineer will focus designing and delivering enterprise solutions for features across our hosting environments and platforms.The candidate will expected to be hands-on and not just define strategy but be able to drive execution and implementation as well

Key responsibilities include:
  • Serve as a senior-level Subject Matter Expert (SME) for high visibility cloud computing initiatives and hybrid environments
  • Design, influence, and execute transformation required for hybrid cloud adoption across the enterprise while ensuring alignment with architecture, security and other key Technology frameworks
  • Evangelize opportunities, challenges, and security advantages of integrated cloud services
  • Seek out new and emerging technologies and evaluate for inclusion in Technology’s Hybrid Environments hosting strategy and roadmap of capabilities and solutions for the IaaS and PaaS capabilities and product areas
  • Develop and implement cloud-based procedures, continuous monitoring, compliance, and cloud asset inventory strategies
  • Leverage agility and scalability of DevSecOps and automated governance utilizing secure Infrastructure as Code principles; proactively partner to update CI/CD pipelines based on trends identified in the environment
  • Develop, document, and implement a greenfield framework for cloud optimization leveraging industry best practices to ensure a secure, least privileged model
  • Proactively prioritize, analyze, and address complex problems and incidents to ensure the highest level of environment stability and availability
  • Devise a strategy to develop and implement cloud infrastructure to enable public cloud environments and interconnect to on-prem legacy environments in support of enterprise hosting and hybrid cloud target architectures
  • Build relationships with business and IT partners to assess, engineer and implement public and on-premise Cloud services and automation solutions that balance business agility, operational maintainability, and risk reduction
  • Utilize analytical and problem-solving skills to define problems, proactively innovate, provide credible challenge, and translate vision into strategic solutions

Required Qualifications
  • 1+ year of product strategy development experience
  • 5+ years of experience with building, deploying and securing cloud platforms
  • 5+ years of experience with Cloud technologies
  • 2+ years of Kubernetes experience
  • 3+ years of experience building cloud-ready enterprise solutions
  • 10+ years of engineering experience; or 10+ years of experience in a technical role

Desired Qualifications
  • Agile experience
  • Ability to influence and build relationships with LOB stakeholders, technology CIO leadership, external service providers, and architecture teams
  • Ability to manage initiatives related to the following: architecture roadmap that aligns with business strategy and the broader architecture community; hardware and capacity planning, consolidation and rationalization; related emerging technology assessment and incubation
  • Knowledge and understanding of diverse platforms and operating systems, including current and emerging technologies
  • Experience working with cloud security management or governance tools
  • 5+ years of public cloud experience
  • 3+ years of experience in designing and engineering cloud native solutions
  • 3+ years of experience with secure DevOps and deployment automation to cloud environments
  • A Masters degree or higher in computer science or finance
  • Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills

Other Desired Qualifications
  • 3+ years of experience leading cloud services design and deployments (IaaS and PaaS)
  • Experience with one or more Cloud platforms: AWS, Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform), Azure, Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) or VMware Tanzu App Service (TAS), OpenStack.
  • Knowledge and understanding of 12-factor/Cloud Native development, Infrastructure as Code, Grid computing / Elastic compute
  • Experience utilizing Cloud Infrastructure within tools and applications such as AWS Cloud Formation Templates, Spinnaker and Terraform
  • Professional Cloud Certification(s) from Cloud Security Alliance, AWS, Google, Microsoft, or equivalent industry-standard / professional organizations
  • Experience with virtualization products and hypervisor technologies such as VMWare, Xen, HyTper-V, or other