Cloud Engineering Engineer 2 #1062948

FastTek Global; Dearborn (MI); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and Dental

Vision

Personal Time Off (PTO) Program

Long Term Disability

Life Insurance

401(k) with immediate vesting

Job summary

FastTek Global in Dearborn, MI is seeking a Cloud Engineering Engineer 2 to design, build, and deploy cloud infrastructure and managed services that enable scalable, secure, and cost-efficient private and public cloud environments.

You will focus on opinionated cloud platforms and IaC with Terraform, integrating Kubernetes, IAM and data stores while collaborating with architects, security and product teams to meet business needs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field.
• 4+ years IT experience; 3+ years development.
• 3+ years of Java and Python experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy opinionated cloud environments aligned with security and enterprise needs.
• Collaborate with architects, security teams, and product teams to deliver scalable cloud infra.
• Monitor usage to predict future needs and ensure proper resource scaling.
• Develop IaC templates (Terraform) for provisioning resources including IAM, VPC, gateways, SSL, Kubernetes.
• Integrate security and DR policies to ensure data protection and retention compliance.
• Design and optimize cloud storage for availability, security and cost efficiency.
• Assist in strategy and roadmaps, optimize cloud spend and ensure high availability across regions.
• Evaluate new cloud technologies and migrations from on-prem to cloud; design HA/Resilience.

Skills

GCP

Dynatrace

Splunk

Java

Python

Go

Cloud CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

IAM

Cloud DNS

Cloud Load Balancer

Secret Manager

Cloud SQL

NoSQL databases

Job description

Dearborn, Michigan Cloud Engineering Engineer 2 #1062948

Position Description

Employees in this job function are responsible for designing, building and deploying cloud-based infrastructure and managed services to achieve scalability, flexibility and cost efficiencies for private and public cloud systems that support the business. They are focused on created opinionated cloud environments and systems like Storage as a service, Infrastructure as a service etc. that form building blocks used by other enterprise and product teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Designing and deploying various opinionated cloud environments and platforms aligned with enterprise architecture and security requirements while meeting the business-critical needs of internal customers.


• Collaborate with enterprise architect, security teams, solution architects, product teams, etc. to design, build, and deploy cloud infrastructure solutions to meet the company's needs for scalability, availability, performance and security.


• Monitor system usage to predict future needs, ensuring that the organization scales its IT resources appropriately.


• Develop automation scripts and IaC templates for configuring and provisioning complex cloud resources including identity services, virtual private cloud, gateways, SSL, Kubernetes clusters, NoSQL data stores, etc.


• Integrate enterprise security and disaster recovery policies in cloud infrastructure configurations, ensuring data protection and data retention practices comply with industry regulations


• Design, implement and optimize cloud-based storage solutions ensuring data availability, security and cost efficiency


• Assist in the execution of technology strategy and implementation of engineering roadmaps, including optimizing cloud expenditure, maximizing resource usage and ensuring high availability across required geographic regions.


• Evaluate new and emerging cloud technologies for incorporation into existing systems, assist in modernization efforts to prioritize and execute migrations of on-prem services to cloud systems. Design highly available, resilient, and cost-optimized application integration solutions on GCP. Implement infrastructure-as-code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform. Configure IAM, Secret Manger, Cloud DNS, Cloud Load Balancer, HA/DR environment Experience with Cloud SQL & Non-SQL databases, Backup/recovery, and high availability architectures Experience with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and IaC. Experience with SRE practices in Google Cloud Platform Programming experience (Java, Python, or Go).

Skills Required

• GCP, Dynatrace, Splunk,

Skills Preferred

• AIPGEE, Java, API

Experience Required

• Engineer 2 Exp.: Practitioner: 1 coding language or framework. 4+ years in IT; 3+ years in development 3+ years of experience with Java and Python

Experience Preferred

• Prior experience of us is preferred, especially if they understand our development processes and environment

Education Required

• Bachelor's Degree

Additional Information

A Cloud Engineer with a software-development background who can understand Java/Python code, make smaller changes when needed, configure and maintain cloud applications/services, and work with observability tools such as Dynatrace and Splunk. Prior experience of us would make the candidate especially strong.

Additional Info

At FastTek Global, Our Purpose is Our People and Our Planet. We come to work each day and are reminded we are helping people find their success stories. Also, Doing the right thing is our mantra. We act responsibly, give back to the communities we serve and have a little fun along the way.

We have been doing this with pride, dedication and plain, old-fashionedhard work for 24 years!

FastTek Global is financially strong, privately held company that is 100% consultant and client focused.

We've differentiated ourselves by being fast, flexible, creative and honest. Throw out everything you've heard, seen, or felt about every other IT Consulting company. We do unique things and we do them for Fortune 10, Fortune 500, and technology start-up companies.

Benefits

• Medical and Dental (FastTek pays majority of the medical program)


• Vision


• Personal Time Off (PTO) Program


• Long Term Disability (100% paid)


• Life Insurance (100% paid)


• 401(k) with immediate vesting and 3% (of salary) dollar-for-dollar match

Plus, we have a lucrative employee referral program and an employee recognition culture.

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