What are the responsibilities and job description for the Cloud Platform Engineer position at Kimley-Horn?
Overview
Kimley-Horn’s IT Team has a challenging and rewarding opportunity for a Cloud Platform Engineer based in our Phoenix office. In this role, you will be working alongside a team of five professionals who manage our execution of Cloud Solutions & Architecture supporting the Cloud development platform for our various projects, both internal and external.
Ranked as one of Fortune Magazine’s “100 Best Companies to Work For,” Kimley-Horn prides itself on hiring high-achieving, dedicated, and professionals who are passionate about the work they do.
Responsibilities
- Involvement in a variety of operational activities, such as continuous environment health monitoring, maintaining standards, and stability across our IaaS/PaaS/SaaS environment
- Initiating incident management in the event of an issue and addressing escalations
- Implementing recommended modifications while adhering to change management processes, vulnerability management and remediation, and engaging in disaster recovery tests
- Identifying new cloud technologies and platforms to help solve technical challenges
- Build cloud foundational components encompassing network, security, identity, operations, and governance in the cloud
- Operationalize solutions from proof-of-concept through production, using automation for repeatability, maintainability, and to enforce standards
- Designing technical architecture for cloud solutions that meet the needs for scalability, reliability, availability, and performance
- Cloud Capacity Planning, Profiling, Load testing, and monitoring of cloud applications, while incorporating security best practices
- Responsible for day-to-day operations of managing cloud resources which include resource allocation, optimizing capacity, and configuration management
- Function as part of a team, involving and supporting others to get the job done
Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Systems Engineering or related fields of study
- 4 years of relevant experience
- Microsoft Azure certification (AZ-900, AZ-104, AZ500, AZ-305, AZ-700)
- Knowledge in the platform of Azure IaaS, PaaS, SaaS services and foundational components of compute, storage, networking, identity and access management, security, tenant/subscriptions
- Understanding of Azure App Services architecture and deployment
- Hands on experience with Microsoft Azure Services such as Azure API Management, Azure Database management, Azure Security, Load balancing technologies: Front Door & Application Gateway Web Application Firewalls
- Experience with Azure DevOps for source control, continuous integration and deployment and software development lifecycle
- Experience with cloud containerization technology and configurations
- Experience in High Availability, geo-distributed architecture for multi-regional applications that require improved performance, and disaster recovery implementations
- Ability to automate deployments using Terraform, PowerShell, CLI, or Bicep, and manage separate environments (Development, UAT, Production) through an IaC solution
- Comfortable talking about technical issues with business partners and business issues with technical partners
- Ability to communicate clearly both verbally and in writing in diverse situations with all levels of management, vendors, clients (internal), and peers. Ability and willingness to continue to expand knowledge and experience base
- Experience with other cloud platforms such as AWS and GCP
Why Kimley-Horn?
At Kimley-Horn, we do things differently. People, clients, and employees are at the forefront of who we are. Clients know we prioritize achieving their goals and growing their success. Employees know our culture and approach to business are built on a desire to provide an environment for everyone to flourish. Our commitment to quality is only as good as the people behind it— that’s why we welcome and develop passionate, hardworking, and proactive employees. We take pride in how our employee retention, robust benefits package, and company values have led to Kimley-Horn’s placement on the Fortune “100 Best Companies to Work” list for 19 years!
Key Benefits at Kimley-Horn
- Exceptional Retirement Plan: 2-to1- company match on up to 4% of eligible compensation (salary bonus) and additional profit-sharing contribution.
- Comprehensive Health Coverage: Low-cost medical, dental, and vision insurance options.
- Time Off: Personal leave, flexible scheduling, floating holidays, and half-day Fridays.
- Financial Wellness: Student loan matching in our 401(k), and performance-based bonuses.
- Professional Development: Tuition reimbursement and extensive internal training programs.
- Family-Friendly Benefits: New Parent Leave, family building benefits, and childcare resources.