Senior Cloud Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Michigan.

📋 Description

• Act as a Subject Matter Expert on expansive global infrastructure initiatives that necessitate cross-functional IT collaboration.

• Collaborate with architects and engineers to plan, design, implement, promote, and facilitate the adoption of DevOps methodologies and standards.

• Advocate for and provide expert advice on Agile development as well as Agile infrastructure principles and practices.

• Guide teams on Infrastructure as Code, provisioning, continuous integration, delivery, deployment, and test automation.

• Concentrate on prospective cloud-based technology growth opportunities that enhance organizational maturity.

• Plan, design, implement, and instruct teams on DevOps tools, best practices, cloud platforms, including AWS and GCP.

• Provide leadership within the organization to identify and eliminate infrastructure and system-level obstacles that hinder productivity and quality.

• Identify and execute process enhancements that align with DevOps methodologies and cloud utilization.

• Monitor and relay feedback on the adoption of DevOps practices.

• Offer guidance and design solutions related to infrastructure, security, deployment, scaling, metrics, and IT operations.

• Conduct technology assessments and internal audits to ensure that solutions fulfill business and security requirements.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline, or an equivalent level of professional experience.

• Over 8 years of experience managing mission-critical enterprise-level systems.

• At least 8 years of experience with virtual machines, virtual networking, and storage utilizing third-party infrastructure.

• Proficient in Infrastructure as Code implementation and developing CloudFormation templates.

• Hands-on experience in developing and utilizing GCP and/or AWS cloud services.

• Strong knowledge of IAM, networking, VPC, interconnectivity, load balancing, DNS, compute, virtual machines, containers, managed relational and NoSQL databases, object stores, file stores, KMS, and encryption in transit.

• Over 5 years of experience in administering and troubleshooting Linux-based systems.

• More than 2 years of experience with Docker.

• Extensive experience in developing cloud migration strategies.

• Familiarity with installing, configuring, and troubleshooting Nginx, Apache HTTP, Jetty, and Tomcat.

• Capability to navigate through the complete project lifecycle: discovery, analysis, architecture, design, documentation, building, migration, automation, and readiness.

• Competence to configure and install relational databases.

• Experience with installing and configuring monitoring and metrics collection tools, including Nagios, Cacti, Ganglia, CollectD, Graphite, and/or New Relic.

• Proficient in load and performance testing and analysis.

• Scripting experience in Python and Bash.

• AWS Certification is a plus.

• Experience with production AWS support.

• Familiarity with hybrid and multi-cloud architectures.

• Knowledge of security engineering.

• Proficiency in cloud platform design and troubleshooting.

• Ability to design secure cloud platforms.

• Experience with multi-region architecture and high availability patterns.

• Understanding of cloud observability and production support patterns.

• Proficiency in cloud troubleshooting.

• Regular and reliable attendance is essential.

• Must agree to a background check and drug screening if offered employment.

🏝️ Benefits

• Annual bonus potential based on performance.

• Option for remote work from a home office for daily operations, unless occasional travel is required.

• Medical plans with several coverage options, including HSA eligibility.

• Prescription drug coverage.

• Dental and vision benefits.

• Employee Assistance Program.

• Company-paid basic life insurance.

• Optional supplemental life insurance and dependent coverage.

• Short-term and long-term disability coverage.

• Options for critical illness, accident, and pet insurance.

• 401(k) plan with a 3% automatic deferral upon eligibility.

• 401(k) company match of 50% on employee contributions up to 6% of pay.

• Additional company contribution of 4% of pay each pay period.

• Immediate vesting of company match.

• 100% vesting of additional company contribution after three years of service.

• Health Savings Account (HSA) and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) options.

• Accrual-based Paid Time Off (PTO), increasing with tenure.

• Up to 12 PTO days annually for full-time new hires.

• 10 company-paid holidays annually for full-time employees.

• 1 mental health day, 2 floating holidays, and 1 volunteer day for full-time employees.

• Paid leave programs, including parental, bereavement, jury duty, and military leave.

• Tuition assistance up to $5,250 annually, with 80% covered by ACG.

• Support for professional certification with 100% reimbursement for eligible programs.

• Opportunities for career development and advancement.

• Complimentary AAA membership that includes roadside assistance and travel discounts.

• Adoption assistance program.