Principal Cloud Engineer

Job Description:

• Exhibits a solid understanding of how the organization's business objectives, opportunities and processes, and what drivers and trends, are influencing the industry and ecosystem.
• Experience using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative technical solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems, driving data-driven decisions
• Lead technical design and ensure hurdles are resolved to gain the best performance, reusability, governance, and maintainability.
• Develop and implement cloud migration strategies.
• Develop strategies to optimize the utilization of the Cloud instances with emphasis balancing cost, availability and durability/disaster recovery.
• Define the operational processes to effectively manage the cloud environment and integrate with upstream DevOps pipelines and Software as a Service applications.
• Support Cloud Infrastructure built on AWS.
• Effectively communicates to different audiences. It is important to be able to communicate ideas clearly and concisely in written documents (graphics or text), and to present these coherently and logically.
• Has a pragmatic and practical ability of the cloud solution to be implemented. Key to this is an understanding of the issues involved in project development, the language of development teams and, therefore, the ability to engage with the development teams in the deployment of the architecture.
• Provides Technical leadership in system integration and promotes best practices in this area.
• Help define and develop the DevOps process for deploying and maintaining solutions within the Cloud environment.
• Evaluate the analytics from the cloud environment to make recommendations for improvements and optimization.
• Lead the technical planning & requirements gathering phases including estimate, develop, test, manage projects, architect and deliver.
• Serve as a technical lead and mentor. Provide technical support or leadership in the development and continual improvement of service.
• Collaborates with stakeholders to understand emerging business needs and opportunities.
• Seeks to understand what system is required to do and also what it should not do. Sets operational standards and resource usage "budgets"
• Build strong relationships with business and technology partners

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent applicable experience.
• Must have 3+ years of experience with running production application infrastructure in AWS, Azure or Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience working with key technology and modern architectural structures such as AWS, Lambda, J2EE, SOAP/REST integrations, APIs, Micro-services, etc.
• Extensive experience with open-source technology such as Linux, Java, Apache.
• Experience with security concepts and technologies (authentication, authorization, encryption, digital signature), SSL, web service proxies, firewalls, multi-protocol gateways and VPN.
• Hands-on experience administering AWS IAM beneficial.
• Experience building and ongoing administration with DevOps pipeline tools such as Jenkins, Git and Terraform.
• Experience with agile development methods such as SCRUM, XP, and/or SAFe Agile.
• Experience with virtualization technologies and containerization, and Platform-as-a-Service technologies such as Kubernetes.
• Experience with cloud-based data platforms (RDBMS, NoSQL, Hadoop).