Cloud Engineer

The Cloud Engineer oversees, manages and maintains all aspects of the company’s cloud infrastructure which includes networking, operational security programs, compute resources and storage within the cloud environment. Makes suggestions to management on improvements to the cloud environment in terms of availability, redundancy and efficiency. Reviews and assess potential security threats to the company’s network and provides recommendations for remediation of identified deficiencies. These assessments include evaluating technological, operational, and process controls in order to properly architect, design and implement security controls. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Responsibilities

• Oversees all company cloud environments
• Works with supervisor to improve cloud workloads 
• Maintains a cloud security system with regular process reviews
• Maintains knowledge of relevant emerging technologies and changes to existing technologies. Will recommend system enhancements and improvements as needed.
• Periodically performs internal quality control to ensure policies and procedures are followed accordingly.
• Maintain, implement, and test disaster responsiveness and recovery plan.
• Responsibility for maintaining and monitoring PCI and security compliance as well as document the findings and recommend a resolution to the incident.
• Daily monitoring of operational systems to ensure system availability during peak and off-peak hours.
• Will routinely monitor, maintain, and report on security measures in accordance with PCI DSS guidelines, SOC controls, and company policies.
• Will directly and immediately report any instances of security violations, critical hardware device failures, or data breaches related to the corporate network infrastructure as described in Incident Response Policy.

Environment/Physical Demands

• Experience analyzing business risks, evaluating business processes, assessing internal controls, documenting work performed, and writing concise and persuasive project reports
• You have the ability to handle, prioritize, and coordinate multiple tasks required all while being a teammate who shares expertise, is flexible and adaptable to change
• Detail oriented and perform with a high level of accuracy.
• You are comfortable with communicating technology impacts and risk to various levels of executive management understanding the need to tailor and deliver appropriate content for given audience
• You demonstrate an ability to understand compliance and security issues and concisely communicate the same to internal partners, external audit representatives and corporate management.
• You have the ability to work independently and thrive in a dynamic, fast-growing, and team-oriented environment
• Technical skills need to have broad knowledge of information technology processing systems, concepts, and methodologies. Demonstrate aptitude for learning and implementing new technologies.
• Demonstrated ability to collect and analyze complex data, evaluate information and systems, and draw logical conclusions
• Demonstrated skills in effectively working with all levels of management
• Excellent verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills

• The individual must possess excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to interact and communicate with technical personnel, non-technical personnel, and senior management.
• The individual must be pro-active, flexible, and able to work independently, adjusting quickly to changing priorities and conditions. Must demonstrate strong leadership attributes as well as the innate ability to follow and be a supportive team member.
• High level knowledge of network infrastructure of Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Working knowledge of network configuration for business enterprise.
• Working knowledge of measuring, monitoring, evaluating and tuning overall network infrastructure for security and performance.