What are the responsibilities and job description for the Principal Cloud Engineer-(W2 contract) position at SPECTRAFORCE?
Principal Cloud Engineer
12 Months
Merrimack, NH/ Westlake, TX (Hybrid)
Hybrid Schedule: Alternate two weeks onsite per month like 1 week onsite/ 1 week remote
Must haves:
- Cloud Engineering deploying IaC to AWS (or Azure)
- Developing shell scripts for automation/deployment tasks
- Cloud formation
- Terraform
- Jenkins, GIT, Artifactory
- Nice to have Python
Role:
As a Cloud Engineer you will work within the Data Platform space, on our Oracle Engineering team. You will work with a highly collaborative, multi-functional technical team that is committed to improving the value of our technology solutions. You will be responsible for designing, developing, deploying, and maintaining the enterprise-level database systems that store, organize, and manage an organization's critical data. This role is a hybrid of software engineering and database expertise, focused on building foundational database solutions and best practices for engineering teams
The team blends deep technology and business expertise with a passion for exploring and implementing new emerging technologies, while working in an open and transparent way.
In this position you will work to design, maintain and enhance database solutions for the AWS and Azure cloud and on-prem platforms. This role requires Oracle database administration, platform engineering and automation to create a highly available and scalable environment.
The Expertise and Skills You Bring
- 3-5 years of experience in DevOps / Cloud Engineering role across Linux and Engineered systems.
- Experience working on various Cloud Options (AWS/Azure - fully managed/IAAS)
- Expertise in Terraform, Jenkins, Artifactory, GitHub and CFT
- Strong Linux system administration skills
- Utilize scripting Python, Groovy, Jenkins, Java, and/or shells to automate various tasks
- Build, test, and deploy automated CI/CD pipelines for fast, reliable application updates
- Using Git repositories to manage code changes, pull requests, and automation workflows
- Experience in configuring alerts and monitors using tools like Data Dog, OEM and OTEL to create a highly available platform
- Strong experience in production support and maintenance of high availability systems with ability to manage large scale database projects, including participation in US on-call schedule
- Ability to evaluate and propose best-of-breed tools and engineering best-practices
- Experience and comfort in working on multiple projects simultaneously
- Strong communication and influencing skills
- Experience in mentoring and coaching other engineers on the team
- An advocate for software engineering best practices and principles
- Participates in Agile Scrum ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives
- Assists in backlog grooming and sprint tracking using Jira and Confluence
- Implement and enforce database security measures, ensure compliance with data governance policies, and manage access controls to safeguard sensitive data
The Value You Deliver
- Strong sense of ownership for the quality of solution delivery and execution
- Ability to prioritize work in fast paced environment
- Define and lead development standards and coding best practices for team
- Performs independent technical and functional analysis for multiple projects
- Develops comprehensive documentation for multiple applications supporting several corporate initiatives
- Supports and performs all phases of testing leading to implementation
- Provides guidance and mentoring to other engineers
- Represents technology solutions to our business partners
- May serve as on-call resource to support the organization's service and escalation model
- POC design solutions to prove best data engineering practices keeping in mind effective utilization of database features and performance centric approach
- Participating in code review and unit testing and providing support on issues in development or production