Job Summary: The Cloud Solutions Engineer is a multi-functional role supporting onboarding and ongoing operations of application teams within the cloud program. They establish and maintain a cloud community of practice to facilitate information sharing with application teams, support the onboarding process via hands-on technical support and guidance and ensure long-term success of all tenants within the cloud program via ongoing reviews of cloud operations for deployed applications including making recommendations on cost, performance and efficiency improvements.
Key Responsibilities:
- Demonstrate subject matter expertise with all commonly used AWS services including EC2, VPC, EKS/ECS, S3, RDS, Route53, EMR etc.
- Operate cloud computing governance tooling like Turbot or CloudTamer/Kion.
- Establish and maintain a cloud community of practice to enable information sharing across the cloud program.
- Experience with Infrastructure and Platform architecture and operations.
- Support onboarding application teams to the cloud program.
- Conduct training and upskilling exercises with application teams across the program to ensure all teams are equipped to optimally utilize cloud services.
- Coordinate with AWS Technical Account Management and Professional Services teams to conduct Well Architected Reviews (WARs) with application teams.
- Design and maintain documentation and playbooks on common use cases for application teams.
- Support cost estimation of cloud projects utilizing internal tools and AWS provided cost calculator as appropriate.
- Promote adoption of standardized infrastructure as code patterns and architectural best practices across application teams.
- Well versed with AWS and Azure services and resources.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
- 3-7+ years of experience as an AWS Cloud Engineer
- Certification in cloud such as AWS Solutions Architect (Associate or Professional)
- Experience with cloud infrastructure and services, such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.
- Programming / Scripting experience in popular languages like Python/Java Script using the AWS SDKs like boto3 etc.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management tools like CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible, Packer etc.
- Experience with industry standard multi account governance tools like Turbot, AWS Control Tower or Kion/CloudTamer.
- Expertise in Linux and Windows System Administration.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a cross-functional team.
Clearance requirements:
Clearance Requirements: All candidates must be eligible for Public Trust Clearance based on suitability criteria listed here:
US Residency Requirement: All candidates must have maintained US residency for at least three years in the last five continuous years.