Sr. Cloud Engineer

Senior Cloud Engineer – AWS role on our Business Systems Development team. This is a hands-on-keyboard, highly technical, IC role. In this role, you will own the buildout of various applications and infrastructure in AWS and engineering of hybrid environments connecting our on-prem and cloud in a secure, resilient manner.

This role will work in close collaboration with Network Engineering, Information Security and Application teams with a clear remit of a cloud-first thinking and supporting both on-prem and cloud roadmaps. Strong written and oral communication skills are essential and candidates should be self-directed and motivated to work in a fast paced, team-oriented environment.

Summary of Key Responsibilities Include

• AWS Solutions Architect SAA-C02 Certification required.
• Deep experience is expected on IAM.
• Architecting cloud solutions using VPCs, Direct Connect, IAM and AWS Control Tower. Experience with multi-account implementations and RCPs/SCPs (Resource and Service Control Policies) is highly desirable.
• Work with SecurityHub and establishing best practices around remediation and ongoing observability.
• Partner with the software architects and network engineers in designing and improving CI/CD processes, and using infrastructure-as-code.
• Troubleshoot incidents, identify root causes, fix and document problems, implement preventive measures.
• Work with the AWS CDK IaC frameworks in Python or NodeJS.
• Participate in applying SRE principles such as availability SLIs, error budgets, incident reviews, alerting and be part of an on-call ROTA.

Organizational Structure

The Senior Cloud Engineer – AWS will report directly to the Director of DevOps in the Business Systems Development department.

Qualifications

• 3 years of experience in architecting, designing, developing, and implementing cloud solutions on AWS platforms.
• Familiarity with implementing a hybrid networking architecture in a highly regulated environment– such as establishing data perimeters.
• AWS EKS, Load Balancers, EC2 Instances, S3 Storage, Direct Connect Gateways, VPCs, RDS, DynamoDB, Network Firewalls, ECS.
• Experience with Cloudwatch Logs and Alarms and building observability around the AWS solutions.
• Experience with Kubernetes - including familiarity with Networking and Storage.
• Strong Linux background and containerization principles - OCI, Docker or packer/podman.
• Experience with Kafka and managing Kafka clusters are desirable.
• Experience with Jenkins or other CI/CD framework is desirable.
• Knowledge of web services, APIs, REST and RPC calls.
• Prometheus, Alert Manager, Splunk, Loki and Grafana is a plus.
• Experience in GitOps for kubernetes – Flux, ArgoCD and tools like kustomize and helm.
• Experience with Shell Scripts, Python SDLC.
• Java or NodeJS/React programming is a plus.

Education and Experience

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field or equivalent.
• 3 years of experience using cloud technologies to support large-scale business applications.
• Financial or other regulated industry experience is a plus.