Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Envisioned Strategy Consulting; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm is seeking a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to manage their AWS environment. This role involves building automation workflows, implementing data storage solutions, and enforcing security practices. Ideal candidates will have strong programming skills, significant experience in public cloud, and relevant certifications.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in public cloud (AWS preferred).
• Working knowledge of Big Data fundamentals and databases.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect or relevant certification preferred.

Responsibilities

• Build and manage cloud infrastructure (AWS).
• Implement data storage and automate workflows.
• Enforce security and perform on-call duties.

Skills

Programming skills

Cloud fundamentals

Data security

Cost optimization

Automation

Education

BSc degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

Jenkins

Job description

JOB DESCRIPTION & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Responsible for building and managing our cloud infrastructure (AWS) with code first mindset.

• Implement data storage solutions such as S3, ERDS and NoSQL databases.

• Automate workflows using orchestration systems like airflow, oozie etc.

• Build monitoring and observability dashboards.

• Cost optimization and management.

• Enforce security (create and maintain users and roles, assign privileges), establish procedures to ensure data integrity and availability.

• Perform on-call duties to keep the lights up 24x7.

• Setup and maintain documentation and standards.

PRIMARY SKILLS

• BSc degree in Computer Science or equivalent.

• 5+ years experience on public cloud such as AWS (preferred), Azure or GCP.

• Working knowledge of public cloud, Big data fundamentals.

• Excellent programming skills – shell script or Python.

• Experience with relational & non-relational databases, containerization and Kubernetes, IAM & networking security.

• Hands-on with Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform or Ansible or CloudFormation and Jenkins.

SECONDARY SKILLS (IF ANY)

• Experience with performance diagnostics, debugging and performance tuning.

• Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills.

CERTIFICATIONS REQUIRED (IF ANY)

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect or relevant cloud certification (preferred)