Cloud Computing Engineer

Core Competencies

• Design and deliver dynamically scalable, available, fault-tolerant, reliable, and secure cloud solutions on Azure, AWS, GCP.
• Strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Chaos engineering experience.
• Strong understanding of virtual networks and general network management functions.
• Solid knowledge of concepts of designing and developing dynamic cloud solutions.
• Solid knowledge of concepts and moving parts involved in continuous integration and delivery.

Guidance and Solutions

• Expert guidance to development teams regarding infrastructure.

• Interpret and provide solutions on complex technologies/architectures.

• Cloud Formation / automation / Ansible / PowerShell / DSC / Comparable Linux scripting.

• Experience equivalent to site reliability engineering, DevOps, and/or DevSecOps

Core Tasks

• Provide strategic and support representing Design ServicesCloud
• Strategy as a Subject Matter Expert.
• Identify and prioritize critical business functions in collaboration with organizational stakeholders.
• Build and maintain relationships across organizational teams.
• Consult with vendor product specialists/sales, independent research organizations, on-site support engineers and fellow architects and administrators on best-fit technologies to ensure compliance to department policies & standards and technology roadmap.
• Coordinate with Enterprise Architecture team for technology validation or suggestions for alternative solutions. If necessary, initiate Solution Assessments, Infrastructure Service.

Infrastructure Management

• Infrastructure provisioning and configuration.
• Document and Knowledge transfer; document pipeline architecture, design decisions, and setup instructions for future reference and onboarding of new team members.
• Conduct knowledge transfer sessions and provide training to relevant stakeholders to ensure a smooth transition and adoption of the infrastructure deployment pipeline.

Security and Architecture

• Requests, and any applicable required documentation to implement new technology.

• Advocate the use of emerging cyber security best practices, technologies, developing standards and procedures, promoting the usage of automated tools, developing strategies, and aligning practices with enterprise strategic initiatives.

• Lead the development of technical artifacts including Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM),

• Detailed Technical Design, Security Architecture Plan, Services Description Document, etc.

• Produce architectural framework documents (i.e., white papers, guidance documents, best practices, technical reports, etc.).

• Leverage broad-based understanding of technology areas and end-to-end knowledge of current installations to craft architectural solutions or standards that can be applied across the enterprise.

Experimentation and Tooling

• Define and build hypothesis around steady state behavior.

• Run experiments around real world events to define potential impact or estimate frequency.

• Tooling and Automation: Evaluate and select appropriate tools and technologies to support the infrastructure deployment pipeline. Implement and configure the chosen tools to enable seamless automation of infrastructure provisioning and configuration.

• Integrate pipelines with existing Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) systems and other relevant tools.

• Enable self-service capabilities for infrastructure provisioning and promote collaboration among development and operations teams.

Compliance and Support

• Provide support and subject matter expertise with respect to adherence to best practice security framework controls and other industry-based regulatory compliance requirements (e.g., NIST 800-37, 800-53, 800-171, 800-204, 800-207, CIS, PCI, IRS-Pub 1075, CJIS, and related).
• Assist with cloud infrastructure design and develop detailed architecture models for the client to host test, development, and production environments.
• Communicate complex technical concepts to individuals of various technical ability.
• Provide performance analysis & troubleshooting.
• Design and test large-scale workload and data migrations.
• Provide direct support to technical and non-technical entities to define requirements and deliver solutions to meet organizational needs including new environment deployment, upgrades, performance tuning, testing and disaster recovery.
• Integrate cloud services with on-premises technologies from Microsoft, Dell, EMC, HP, Nutanix