Lead Cloud Engineer

Zyxware Technologies; Washington (District of Columbia); Remote; USD 90,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Lead Cloud Engineer to spearhead their cloud operations. This role is fully remote and focuses on leading a diverse team in the deployment and management of scalable cloud environments. You will leverage your extensive experience in cloud technologies, particularly AWS, to enhance operational efficiency and ensure high availability. This innovative firm values technical expertise and leadership, offering an exciting opportunity to shape cloud strategies and drive process improvements. If you are passionate about cloud engineering and ready to take on a leadership role, this position is perfect for you.

Benefits

Medical Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k)

Qualifications

• 12 years of relevant experience with cloud technologies.
• Experience leading a cloud team for resource provisioning.

Responsibilities

• Lead cloud engineering and operations team for deployment and maintenance.
• Provide technical guidance for cloud resource provisioning.

Skills

Cloud Technologies (AWS, Azure)

Infrastructure as Code (Cloud Formation, Terraform)

Python or similar scripting language

Team Leadership

Incident Management

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

ServiceNow

Jira

SolarWinds

Splunk

Job description

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Delivery Center Lead @ Zyxware Technologies | Niche Recruiting, Communication Foundations

Job Title: Lead Cloud Engineer

Location: Washington, DC/Virginia/Maryland (Remote)

Duration: Full Time

Seeking a lead cloud engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position will be working 100% remote and will focus on cloud operations and engineering. A candidate in this position will work as part of an enterprise cloud services team and will lead the engineering and operations team and oversee the deployment of a scalable, secure, and resilient cloud environment. The candidate responsibilities will include managing of the team task priorities, providing technical guidance and solutions for provisioning of services and permissions, operational monitoring, and incident response. A candidate is expected to have broad experience across cloud infrastructure resources.

The candidate responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Leadership Role

• Lead the cloud engineering and operations team for deployment, monitoring, and maintenance of cloud environments (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Understand the scope and manage the prioritization of ServiceNow requests, changes, and Jira tasks for provisioning, modifying, troubleshooting, and decommissioning cloud services
• Advise and enhance cloud team process improvements using cloud best practices and team standards
• Coordinate with team counterparts internal to the cloud services team and with peers leads (eg. OS, database, monitoring teams)
• Effective communication with leadership for status, issues, risks, and concerns, etc.

Technical Role

• Provide technical guidance and direction to cloud team on provisioning new resources and resolution of infrastructure issues
• Provide system monitoring and incident management for cloud environments
• Manage operations in cloud environments and ensure the high availability and performance of those environments
• Evaluate and operationalize cloud services, tools, and technologies
• Implement and manage identity and access management (IAM) policies and tools to control user permissions and access to cloud environments.
• Monitoring Cloud overall health and address/identify issues and address with cloud services team and/or cloud customers to resolve

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree and 12 years of relevant experience
• Five (5) years of experience preferred in cloud technologies including Amazon Web Services(AWS), Microsoft Azure, or other public cloud services with an emphasis on AWS experience
• Strong experience in writing and deploying Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Cloud Formation, Terraform, CDK) to provision cloud infrastructure
• Two (2) years of experience preferred with Python or similar cloud scripting language.
• One (1) cloud certification preferred at the associate level or higher in AWS
• Experience leading a cloud team that performs the provisioning of cloud infrastructure resources and operational support of provisioned resources
• Experience with a breadth of cloud infrastructure resources
• Experience with Jira, ServiceNow, and similar toolsets for workflow management
• Experience with SolarWinds, Splunk, and similar tools for logging and monitoring

Preferred Qualifications:

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Human Resources

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Medical insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

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