Overview:
The Cloud Engineer has significant interactions with key leaders in the business organization (CBU) as well as in Application Services and Vendor Management groups.
Responsibilities:
- Define the Cloud Architecture for both hybrid and non-hybrid cloud solution (preferred GCP).
- Be the go to person for Cloud Architecture.
- Expert in GCP with administration experience (DialogFlow, Composer and clusters for ML).
- Required have a deep understanding of IaaS and PaaS services offered on cloud platforms.
- Ensure that all cloud solutions follow security and compliance controls.
- Participate in the establishment on an automated DevOps release management pipeline which delivers tooling for next generation application development efforts (the Dev) and on-going production operations (the Ops).
- Cultivate a Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery mind set (experience with Gitlab).
- Collaborate with development and operations teams to develop practical automation solutions and custom modules. Troubleshoot automation issues and find practical solutions that move projects forward in a timely manner.
- Be a trusted automation and tooling advisor for DevOps initiatives by providing objective, practical and relevant ideas, insights and advice.
- Plan, organize, and control multiple responsibilities to achieve project objectives; technically guide projects through to completion. Ensure deliverables are completed within target timeframes and are consistently of high quality.
- Driving the adoption of forward thinking technology in a growth environment.
- Identifying unique cutting edge solutions to business problems leveraging technology.
- Develop innovative solutions taking into consideration performance, scalability and availability with realistic implementation schedules.
- Maintain expert working knowledge of current state software development tools and methods, software testing methodologies, and research emerging trends in application product development space.
- Review, approve and prioritize vendors’ proposed Business Application enhancements.
- Ensuring Service Provider implements corrective and preventive maintenance in accordance with contract.
- Manage and support 2nd and 3rd level application support for business applications.
- Troubleshooting day to day technical issues and assisting with daily requests.
- Training and assisting on use of tools and technology to meet business needs.
- Required to take relevant certifications yearly.
- Required to keep up with emerging technologies and evolving IT trends.
Qualification:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in the field of business, computers, information systems or related degree.
- 8+ years of overall experience, to include a minimum of 5 years of enterprise, full-life cycle in Architecture in the professional IT/Software Development services industry.
- Knowledge of J2EE, .NET, and cloud technologies development languages and tools, to continue with development.
- Self-starter with an in-depth hands-on work experience with large-scale implementations of Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Experience with Agile methodologies and tools. Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment tools and processes, experience in Gitlab.
- Understanding of emerging technologies and end-user needs.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to learn new information quickly.
- Knowledge of SQL, and non-relational (NoSQL) databases.
- Knowledge of networking, firewalls, load balancers etc.
- Understand how to automate builds for developer environments from development through production within a Continuous Delivery model.
- Familiarity with Docker containers, working experience a plus.
- Familiarity with MicroServices architecture, working experience a plus.
- Experience in Incident and Problem management, as well as Change Request and Service Request processes.