Remote Cloud Engineer

Apex Systems; Columbus (IN); Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401K with company match

ESPP

Job summary

Everforth Apex is seeking a Remote Cloud Engineer to orchestrate migrations from on-prem data centers to AWS EKS and to design scalable, reliable cloud infrastructure. You will implement automation, manage containerized environments, and work with engineering teams to optimize build and deployment pipelines.

Key focus areas include GitOps adoption, robust CI/CD, observability, and developing self-service tools for developers to securely manage infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Five or more years of experience with Terraform and cloud migrations.
• Proven site reliability engineering experience.
• Experience with platforms, application-level development, and automation to support build and testing.

Responsibilities

• Orchestrate migrations from on-premises data centers to AWS EKS with zero downtime.
• Design scalable, reliable cloud infrastructure for performance.
• Implement and manage Cron job/DAG schedulers in Kubernetes.
• Collaborate with engineering to improve build environments and pipelines.
• Develop self-service tools for developers to manage infrastructure securely.
• Lead transitions from traditional release windows to GitOps workflows.
• Ensure observability and tracing for effective monitoring and logging.
• Design CI pipelines for unit, contract, integration, and end-to-end tests.

Skills

Kubernetes

AWS EKS

ArgoCD

CI/CD pipelines

Terraform

Job description

Remote Cloud Engineer

Location: Remote on EST

Role Overview

We are seeking a skilled professional to orchestrate seamless migrations from on-premises data centers to AWS EKS, ensuring high levels of availability and performance. The successful candidate will design and build scalable, reliable cloud infrastructure and systems. This role focuses on implementing automation, managing containerized environments, and collaborating with engineering teams to enhance build and deployment pipelines.

Key Responsibilities

• Orchestrate seamless migration from on-premises data centers to AWS EKS, ensuring zero downtime.
• Design and build infrastructure and systems that ensure high levels of scalability, reliability, and performance.
• Implement and manage robust Cron job/DAG schedulers within Kubernetes environments.
• Collaborate with the engineering team to continuously implement and improve reliable and speedy build environments.
• Develop and provide custom self-service tools for developers to securely manage infrastructure components.
• Lead the transition from traditional release windows to GitOps workflows.
• Promote innovation and foster a culture of outside-the-box thinking, teamwork, and self-organization.
• Ensure traceability, observability, and retrievability of system behavior to maintain high standards of system monitoring and logging.
• Design and develop comprehensive CI pipelines for unit tests, contract tests, integration tests, and end-to-end tests.

Required Qualifications

Experience: Five or more years of experience with Terraform, alongside extensive experience in site reliability engineering and cloud migrations. Proven experience with platforms, application-level development, pipeline build processes, and automation to support build and testing is required.

Technical Skills

Strong expertise in Kubernetes, AWS EKS, ArgoCD, and CI/CD pipelines. Ability to build enterprise cloud-native solutions and resolve issues related to pipeline failures or slowness.

Professional Skills

Exceptional problem-solving skills with a focus on enhancing operational efficiency, and excellent collaboration skills to empower developers with custom tools.

Benefits

Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our ‘Welcome Packet’ as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.

Equal Opportunity Employment

Everforth Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Everforth Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law.