Senior Lead IT Cloud Engineer - Virtual

The Role

The primary responsibility of the Sr. Lead IT Cloud Engineer is to design, deploy, and support infrastructure service solutions for the enterprise. They will play a critical role in the deployment and migration of services to the appropriate cloud/virtual solution. They will be expected to stay abreast of advances in technologies; assessing, making recommendations, and deploying said technologies. They are expected to be a leader in collaboration efforts across organizations (architecture, development, operational teams, business units, etc.) in solving critical business and technology issues while improving customer experience. *** The person we hire for this role can live anywhere as this will be a work from home / virtual position ***

The Main Responsibilities

• Must possess technical expertise in private and public cloud infrastructure solutions and methodologies


• Collaborate with cloud services teams on Continuous Improvement, which will drive efficiencies throughout the enterprise


• Will provide support directly to internal stakeholders throughout the enterprise to enable and support highly available application solutions that leverage cloud services


• Provide in-depth software development knowledge with respect to cloud architecture, design patterns, and programming


• Perform site reliability engineering functions:


• Assessing standards, practices, technologies, and ecosystems


• Make recommendations for improvements and in support of going forward strategies


• Facilitate implementation tasks (Examples: operational standards, automation, developing/implementing code)


• Develop and document best practices/procedures, risk assessments, contingency planning, and disaster recovery & business continuity planning


• Provide technical support to internal stakeholders through the ability to analyze, troubleshoot, and solve complex technical problems across multiple technical disciplines


• Interact and communicate with various levels of senior management on projects and initiatives


• Provide leadership in the migration of legacy technologies to current standards


• Function in a fast-paced, multi-tasking, environment


• Mentor/cross-train team members on existing and new technologies


• Other duties as assigned

What We Look For in a Candidate

• Minimum of 6 years of experience in delivering Information Technology projects to medium/large enterprises


• Minimum of 3 years' experience engineering and operating with one or more commercial cloud providers (Examples: Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, IBM Cloud).


• Cloud professional certifications (Examples: Microsoft, VMware, AWS, Cisco)


• Experience with server virtualization and container platforms (Examples: VMware, Hyper-V) and management systems (Examples: Kubernetes, OpenShift, Swarm, etc.)


• Experience with automation and orchestration technologies (Examples: Morpheus, Big Panda)


• Strong/Expert knowledge in Linux administration


• Excellent troubleshooting and diagnostic skills across the full IT technology stack


• Strong interpersonal, written/verbal communication, and team dynamic skills


• Ability to clearly communicate technology topics across a broad range of technical and non-technical backgrounds

Education:

• 
  Bachelor’s degree (Computer Science, MIS, Software Engineering or related) or equivalent
  

Competencies:

• Innovative & Agile


• Ownership & Accountability


• Effective Decision Maker


• Strong Communication Skills


• Strong Interpersonal Skills


• Strong Team Dynamics Skills


• Strong Problem Resolution Skills

What to Expect Next