Open Systems Technologies
Cloud Platform Engineer
Open Systems Technologies, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States, 28245
A financial firm is looking for a
Cloud Platform Engineer
to join their team in Charlotte, NC.
Compensation: $150-200k
Responsibilities: • Finding and improving operational efficiencies to best suit Cloud resource delivery, access management and security implementations. • Support of production workloads within a multi-Cloud environment, including, but not limited to monitoring, patching, backup and restoration of Cloud resources. • Delivery of Cloud infrastructure for partner solutions. • Creation and support of automation and infrastructure as code solutions for resource creation and policy, leveraging PowerShell/Azure DevOps, Ansible and other approved corporate automation and orchestration platforms. • Sound familiarity with orchestration and automation practices at scale, with a heavy emphasis on designing solutions for other teams to consume. • Prior experience working with version control tools such as Github / Azure DevOps, including repository management, pipeline as code, and sdlc workflows. • Basic understanding/debugging experience when it comes to application infrastructure, databases, networking, and DNS. • Design, creation and maintenance of complex Infrastructure as Code and Pipelines as Code solutions in a highly reusable capacity. • Work with internal teams and vendors on the integration of a diverse set of systems into the central ITSM/ITOM platform, ServiceNow. • Participate in the automated implementation of monitoring systems, for event monitoring, alerting and metrics. • Client opportunities and help facilitate a mechanism to change, evolve, improve, and simplify the infrastructure and supporting processes/procedures. • Directly interface with support teams across all disciplines, to facilitate a closer relationship for collaborative implementations and knowledge sharing. • Ensure handover of new/updated systems/documentation to team providing 24x7x365 support.
Qualifications: • Proficiency in Cloud services related to one or more Cloud providers including IaaS, PaaS and SaaS. • Strong automation skillset with the ability to identify and create automation workflows. • Strong PowerShell or other scripting experience, especially with the goal of automation. • Experience with infrastructure as code development and iteration in either Terraform/ARM/Bicep/CloudFormation. • Hands on operational experience and knowledge with Azure or AWS. • Experience with monitoring and log aggregation tools such as Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Splunk, ELK, etc. • Basic knowledge of foundational IT tooling across a wealth of domains to facilitate understanding of automation creation. • Fundamental understanding of public vs private networking in the Cloud. • Strong knowledge on Git merging and branching strategies. • Ability to execute proof of concepts and deploy complex solutions. • Understanding of typical SDLC processes, workflow as pertaining to infrastructure. • Basic understanding of Atlassian Suite (Jira/Confluence) is a plus. • Prior experience working with orchestration tools (Rundeck/Cutover preferred) and infrastructure-as-code tools (HashiCorp Terraform). • Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to articulate requirements, concepts and ideas to business and technology partners. • Strong technical ability for diagnosis, triage, troubleshooting and problem analysis with the ability to communicate results to business stakeholders, IT support teams to resolve issues both quickly and effectively. • Ability to influence people outside the immediate span of control, negotiate and resolve conflicts, and work with business users, IT partners and vendors. • High-Level customer service mindset and commitment to deliver quality results to internal stakeholders in a demanding environment. • A strong sense of urgency and accountability with exceptional time management skills. • Comfortable in effectively communicating with business end users, technical IT Teams, network partners and vendors. • Comfortable in fast-paced environment with changing priorities and schedules.
Cloud Platform Engineer
to join their team in Charlotte, NC.
Compensation: $150-200k
Responsibilities: • Finding and improving operational efficiencies to best suit Cloud resource delivery, access management and security implementations. • Support of production workloads within a multi-Cloud environment, including, but not limited to monitoring, patching, backup and restoration of Cloud resources. • Delivery of Cloud infrastructure for partner solutions. • Creation and support of automation and infrastructure as code solutions for resource creation and policy, leveraging PowerShell/Azure DevOps, Ansible and other approved corporate automation and orchestration platforms. • Sound familiarity with orchestration and automation practices at scale, with a heavy emphasis on designing solutions for other teams to consume. • Prior experience working with version control tools such as Github / Azure DevOps, including repository management, pipeline as code, and sdlc workflows. • Basic understanding/debugging experience when it comes to application infrastructure, databases, networking, and DNS. • Design, creation and maintenance of complex Infrastructure as Code and Pipelines as Code solutions in a highly reusable capacity. • Work with internal teams and vendors on the integration of a diverse set of systems into the central ITSM/ITOM platform, ServiceNow. • Participate in the automated implementation of monitoring systems, for event monitoring, alerting and metrics. • Client opportunities and help facilitate a mechanism to change, evolve, improve, and simplify the infrastructure and supporting processes/procedures. • Directly interface with support teams across all disciplines, to facilitate a closer relationship for collaborative implementations and knowledge sharing. • Ensure handover of new/updated systems/documentation to team providing 24x7x365 support.
Qualifications: • Proficiency in Cloud services related to one or more Cloud providers including IaaS, PaaS and SaaS. • Strong automation skillset with the ability to identify and create automation workflows. • Strong PowerShell or other scripting experience, especially with the goal of automation. • Experience with infrastructure as code development and iteration in either Terraform/ARM/Bicep/CloudFormation. • Hands on operational experience and knowledge with Azure or AWS. • Experience with monitoring and log aggregation tools such as Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Splunk, ELK, etc. • Basic knowledge of foundational IT tooling across a wealth of domains to facilitate understanding of automation creation. • Fundamental understanding of public vs private networking in the Cloud. • Strong knowledge on Git merging and branching strategies. • Ability to execute proof of concepts and deploy complex solutions. • Understanding of typical SDLC processes, workflow as pertaining to infrastructure. • Basic understanding of Atlassian Suite (Jira/Confluence) is a plus. • Prior experience working with orchestration tools (Rundeck/Cutover preferred) and infrastructure-as-code tools (HashiCorp Terraform). • Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to articulate requirements, concepts and ideas to business and technology partners. • Strong technical ability for diagnosis, triage, troubleshooting and problem analysis with the ability to communicate results to business stakeholders, IT support teams to resolve issues both quickly and effectively. • Ability to influence people outside the immediate span of control, negotiate and resolve conflicts, and work with business users, IT partners and vendors. • High-Level customer service mindset and commitment to deliver quality results to internal stakeholders in a demanding environment. • A strong sense of urgency and accountability with exceptional time management skills. • Comfortable in effectively communicating with business end users, technical IT Teams, network partners and vendors. • Comfortable in fast-paced environment with changing priorities and schedules.