Cloud Engineer

Cloud Engineer

Position Summary: As a Cloud Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in enhancing and maintaining our cloud services infrastructure. You will collaborate with our dynamic team to ensure the reliability, availability, and performance of our cloud-based systems. With your expertise in cloud technologies and problem-solving skills, you will contribute to the optimization and continuous improvement of our services.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, build, administer, and maintain cloud-based systems in alignment with business requirements.
• Collaborate with the Lead Cloud Engineer to fulfill assigned tasks within given deadlines.
• Conduct incident root cause analysis and coordinate with support organizations and vendors as necessary.
• Develop and evaluate well-documented documentation for processes and systems.
• Participate in a global follow-the-sun support model, including after-hours and on-call responsibilities.
• Analyze workloads, identify optimization opportunities, and standardize operational processes through automation.
• Ensure compliance with security patching and vulnerability recommendations, implementing automation tools to streamline administration.
• Evaluate and test new administration tools, providing training to the team as needed.
• Utilize scripting languages such as Terraform or Ansible for managing cloud services like AWS.
• Perform peer reviews for code, designs, and documents, ensuring code quality and maintainability.
• Manage user access and permissions for cloud consoles and compute instances.
• Design and deliver secure cloud solutions on AWS, leveraging expertise in Windows Server and Linux environments.
• Assess architecture design, system evaluation, and infrastructure needs, contributing to backup strategies and resource optimization.
• Maintain a highly available SaaS environment, leveraging networking and storage technologies for optimal performance.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, BS Information Technology, or related field.
• Minimum 2 years of experience as a Cloud Engineer, preferably in Fintech or Financial Institutions.
• Above-average management, collaboration, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Proficiency in cloud tools, infrastructure administration, and technical skills in system development and operations.
• Experience with AWS systems integration, development, and maintenance.

Desired Skills:

• Strong attention to detail and a proactive, team-oriented mindset.
• Continuous learning mindset, seeking to understand root causes and prevent similar incidents.
• Ability to cultivate strong relationships with team members and other departments.
• 1 year of AWS experience - systems integration, development and maintenance
• Proficiency in scripting languages like Terraform or Ansible.
• Familiarity with cloud services such as VPC, EC2, IAM, ECS, CloudWatch, and Route53.