Cloud Platform Engineer

INTELLISWIFT INC; Madison (WI); Remote; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Cloud Platform Engineer for a remote position, focusing on IT engineering solutions and infrastructure delivery across public and private cloud environments. The ideal candidate will have robust experience in software engineering, DevOps practices, and automation, with a proven track record in delivering customer-driven solutions. This role involves working closely with cross-functional teams to design and implement effective technology strategies that overcome business challenges.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience providing customer-driven solutions.
• Solid understanding of SDLC and infrastructure technologies.
• Experience with automation and coding practices.

Responsibilities

• Develop, enhance and maintain tools, systems and software solutions.
• Conduct technology evaluations to support strategy definition.
• Design and implement automated solutions for development needs.

Skills

DevOps

Software Engineering

System Administration

Network Management

Automation of infrastructure delivery

Tools

Ansible

Puppet

Terraform

J2EE

JBoss

Tomcat

Apache

PowerShell

Python

UNIX Shell Scripting

Job description

Job Title: Cloud Platform Engineer
Location: Remote
Duration: 12 months
Contract Type: W2 only
Pay Rate: $75 - $85/Hour

Summary:

• Drives IT engineering solutions, framework, roadmap, program optimization and process engineering in a high-velocity culture by introducing technology, requirements, deliverables, gaps and systems design.
• Analyzes competitive strategies, infrastructure technologies, metrics models, and performance indicators. Contributes to robust and innovative strategic solutions and builds resilient support for next-generation systems to solve business challenges.

Primary Accountabilities

• Develop, enhance and maintain tools, systems and software solutions
• Develop, integrate, and test systems, solutions, or products.
• Performs incident triage, including determining scope, urgency, and potential impact. Makes recommendations that enable expeditious remediation.
• Conducts technology evaluations and re-engineering activities to support strategy definition and continuous improvement activities.
• Build strong relationships with Peers across functions through collaborative engineering operations and initiatives.
• Design and implement automated solutions to enable development needs
• Designs and develops system/solution measures to ensure solutions are fully integrated. Validates current and future-state architectural models to assess impact across all technology systems.
• Leads, analyzes and responds to the changing system/solution of the company and our clients with agility and flexibility.
• Analyzes gaps and recommends mitigating and compensating controls.Leads and participates in outage/SWAT meetings to mitigate system/solution issues.
• Implements service catalog automation working with key partners within Enterprise technology and security teams

Specialized Knowledge & Skills Requirements

• Demonstrated experience providing customer-driven solutions, support or service.
• Solid knowledge and understanding of DevOps.
• Solid knowledge and understanding of Software Engineering and Computer Science.
• Solid knowledge and understanding of SDLC (e.g. development, configuration, deployment, testing, configuration, deployment, monitoring etc.).
• Solid knowledge and understanding of infrastructure technologies and application technologies.
• Solid knowledge and understanding of System Administration (configurations, installations, patch management, server maintenance, etc.) and Network Management (firewalls, proxies, IP management, routing, DNS).
• Demonstrated experience establishing, using and supporting integration and communication protocols between applications, databases, and technology platforms.
• Demonstrated experience with administration of J2EE, JBoss, Tomcat, Apache platforms.

Additional Job Information:

• Position will be a member of the Platform Services Product Group within Enterprise Technology Services with an initial focus on either private cloud service delivery or the delivery of infrastructure solutions running across both public (AWS, GCP and Azure) and private cloud environments, supporting the consolidation of five operating companies on-premise infrastructure services with an emphasis on leveraging infrastructure as code to provide application hosting services.

In addition to the technical competencies outlined in the job description, the ideal candidate will have experience with at least a subset of the following:

• automation of infrastructure delivery with configuration orchestration and management solutions (e.g. Ansible, Puppet, Terraform)
• understanding of coding practices and developing in a preferred scripting language (e.g. PowerShell, Python, UNIX Shell Scripting)
• experience with Operating System hardening practices as well as methodologies for templating deployments from a set of standardized images
• experience with Linux and Windows systems engineering principles
• experience with administration of application servers like (e.g. JBoss EAP, Tomcat) and middleware solutions (e.g. MSMQ, IBM MQ, Kafka)