Cloud Engineer II

Americo Financial Life and Annuity; North Kansas City (MO); On-site; USD 85,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Americo Financial Life and Annuity is seeking a Cloud Engineer II to design, implement, automate and support secure cloud solutions across Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services. You will participate in the cloud solution development lifecycle, collaborating with technology and business partners to adopt new cloud capabilities.

The role requires hands-on cloud engineering, strong troubleshooting, infrastructure automation, and governance skills to ensure secure, scalable services and ongoing

Qualifications

• Experience designing, implementing, automating and supporting secure cloud solutions.
• Hands-on cloud engineering experience with troubleshooting, governance and collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Participate in all aspects of the software development life cycle for AWS and Azure solutions, including planning, requirements, development, testing and QA.

Skills

AWS

Azure

PowerShell

Python

JSON

Automation

Education

Technical or Vocational School

4 year College Education

Cloud Certifications and Training

Tools

EC2

S3

VPC

Office 365

Azure

Job description

Job Summary

Americo is hiring a full time Cloud Engineer II to join our expanding team We are seeking an experienced Cloud Engineer II to design implement automate and support secure cloud solutions across Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services This position participates throughout the cloud solution development lifecycle including planning requirements gathering development testing deployment documentation and ongoing operational support The ideal candidate combines hands on cloud engineering experience with strong troubleshooting infrastructure automation security governance and collaboration skills This role will also work with technology and business partners to evaluate new cloud capabilities and support the continued adoption of cloud based platforms and services

Key Responsibilities

Participate in all aspects of the software development life cycle for AWS AZURE solutions including planning requirements development testing and quality assurance Maintain consistent quality documentation to meet ongoing operations and business continuity requirements Documentation will include system topologies operating instructions for new and changed infrastructure Create and implement automation in the form of infrastructure as code for cloud platform solutions Ensure all infrastructure components meet proper performance and capacity standards Troubleshoot incidents identify root cause fix and document problems and Implement preventive measures Ensure strong focus on security and governance Partner with business units to evaluate and drive adoption of new capabilities for cloud adoption and related tools services and systems

Required Experience and Qualifications

Amazon Web Services AWS MS Azure expertise eg EC2 account access security groups Maintain and monitor cloud infrastructure eg AWS MS Azure Office 365 VPC PAAS SAAS VM Deployment Storage management for S3 Glacier Blob 3 years of network or cloud management experience in a technical support role including but not limited to design implementation disaster recovery and engineering Proven ability to provide automation solutions using PowerShell Python and JSON Assist in short term and long term network architecture planning to meet current and expanding business requirements in collaboration with Architects and the Manager of Network Services to meet business objectives for cloud consumption Consistently provide high quality work in a deadline driven environment Accountable for accomplihing tasks both independently and collaboratively Collaborate with peers and team Possess tenacity and motivation for results Ability to prioritize and account for conflicting demands

Education

Technical or Vocational School4 year College Education Cloud Certifications and Training