Sr Cloud Ops Engineer

Fortra; United States; Remote; USD 142,000; Full time

Job summary

Fortra is seeking a Senior CloudOps Engineer to deploy and maintain cloud infrastructure solutions. The role requires a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and 60 months of relevant experience. Responsibilities include providing 24/7 support, designing scalable solutions, and defining cloud policies. Join a team committed to innovation and collaboration while enjoying competitive benefits and a flexible work environment.

Qualifications

• 60 months of experience as Senior Software Engineer, Senior Site Reliability Engineer, or DevOps Engineer.
• Experience with Jenkins, SaltStack, Ansible, Cloudwatch, DataDog.
• Familiarity with Terraform, Lacework, VMWare, and AWS.

Responsibilities

• Deploy and maintain cloud infrastructure solutions.
• Provide 24/7 support as part of an on-call rotation.
• Define and maintain cloud policies regarding security and disaster recovery.

Skills

Jenkins

SaltStack

Ansible

Cloudwatch

DataDog

Python

Bash/Shell scripting

JSON

YAML

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Tools

Terraform

Lacework

VMWare

AWS

Job description

Whether you’re an experienced professional or just getting started, your contributions matter at Fortra. If you’re passionate about tackling meaningful challenges alongside talented team members committed to helping each other succeed, all while having lots of fun, we want to hear from you. We offer competitive benefits and salaries, personal and professional development opportunities, flexibility, and much more !

At Fortra, we’re breaking the attack chain. Ready to join us?

Job Title: Senior CloudOps Engineer

Job Duties: Deploy and maintain architected cloud infrastructure solutions to support applications’ business and technical requirements. Design and implement state-of-the-art technical solutions on cloud infrastructure that address business requirements for scalability, reliability, security, automation, and performance. Work on operational engineering activities which include platform upgrades, server patching, monitoring, configuration, troubleshooting and documentation. Identify, design, and deploy appropriate monitoring/alerting of service events related to performance, scalability, availability, and reliability. Provide 24/7 support as part of an on-call rotation team that responds to afterhours infrastructure alerts and calls from the application support team. Define and maintain critical cloud policies regarding Security, Service Level Agreements, Disaster Recovery, Shared Responsibility, Acceptable Use, Data Retention etc. Contribute on cloud strategy discussions, and decisions on overall cloud design and best approach for implementing cloud solutions. Position permits telecommuting from within the U.S.

Required education: Bachelor of Science or equivalent in Computer Science, Telecommunications Engineering or related.

Required experience: 60 months of progressive experience as Senior Software Engineer; or Senior Site Reliability Engineer; or DevOps Engineer; or related occupation.

Additional minimum requirements: work experience to include at least 60 months of the following:

• Jenkins, SaltStack, Ansible, Cloudwatch, DataDog within Linux and Windows systems.
• Automating software testing at multiple levels including components, configuration item, subsystem, and system.
• Terraform, Lacework, VMWare, and AWS to control infrastructure and network.
• Delivering software features, fixes, and updates using Python, bash/shell script, JSON, YAML, and the Riak, Solr, Mongo and Elasticsearch databases.

40 hours/ week. Job site/ interview: Eden Prairie, MN. Salary $141,898/ year. EOE

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