Senior Cloud Engineer

Manageserve Technologies; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to design and implement high-quality cloud solutions. The role involves collaborating with stakeholders, providing technical leadership, and developing automated provisioning solutions. Candidates should have extensive experience with major cloud platforms and proficiency in programming languages.

Qualifications

• Experience with GCP, AWS, and/or Azure.
• Proficiency with open-source tools like Terraform.
• Strong understanding of application performance and security.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain client relationships, providing technical leadership.
• Design and implement scalable technical solutions.
• Develop automated provisioning solutions for cloud environments.

Skills

Linux

Windows

Terraform

Python

Java

Go

JavaScript

Kubernetes

Agile

DevOps

Tools

Ansible

Chef

Puppet

ArgoCD

Azure DevOps

GitLab

Jenkins

Job description

Job Title: Senior Cloud Engineer

As a Senior Cloud Engineer, you will build high-quality solutions to help our customers achieve their business objectives. You will work independently or as part of a team to understand project trajectories, provide insights on implementation details, and deliver consistent, high-quality solutions leveraging automation. Our Cloud consulting team creates innovative solutions using cutting-edge technology to deliver value with speed and precision to our clients.

What You Will Be Doing:

1. Build and maintain client relationships, providing technical leadership and guidance for current projects.
2. Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business requirements, assist in project planning, and document project plans for small and medium-sized projects.
3. Participate in and support sprint planning activities, including story point estimation and ceremonies such as standups, backlog grooming, and retrospectives.
4. Design and implement scalable and efficient technical solutions for customer projects.
5. Create or contribute to technical design documents and other project documentation.
6. Write testable, high-performance, reliable, and maintainable code for CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code frameworks (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation).
7. Design and implement security and network components for multi-cloud solutions and architectures.
8. Research, evaluate, and recommend third-party software and technology packages based on project requirements. Provide performance optimization recommendations and document best practices.
9. Create cloud migration strategies and plans, ensuring smooth transitions to cloud architectures.
10. Develop automated provisioning solutions for servers, environments, containers, and data centers.

Minimum Requirements:

1. Experience with engineering solutions on major cloud provider platforms, preferably GCP, AWS, and/or Azure.
2. Hands-on experience with Linux and Windows OS configuration, tuning, and administration.
3. Strong understanding of application performance, scalability, security, and high availability best practices.
4. Proficiency with open-source tools like Terraform, Packer, Vault, and deployment frameworks such as Pulumi.
5. Proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g., Go, Java, Python, Ruby, Rust).
6. Experience with testing frameworks, including test and behavior-driven development.
7. Ability to write scripts for automation using languages like Bash, Groovy, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, PowerShell, or R.
8. Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Chef, or Puppet.
9. Strong knowledge of container orchestration and management, including Kubernetes and Helm.
10. Exposure to Anthos is a plus.
11. Skilled in CI/CD tools and patterns, familiar with products like ArgoCD, Azure DevOps, Cloud Build, GitLab, or Jenkins.
12. Understanding of Agile and DevOps practices.
13. Experience with stream-processing platforms like Kafka and Cloud Pub/Sub.
14. Solid understanding of data security principles and their application.
15. Experience with on-premise architectures and visualization tools like vCenter.
16. MLOps experience is a plus.