Cloud Platform Engineer

Insight

1d • Remote

About The Position

We are looking for a motivated and passionate Cloud Platform Engineer to join our consulting practice. This candidate is a master practitioner of cutting-edge automation tools and provisioning in a public cloud provider – AWS, GCP, or Azure preferred. The ideal candidate will have experience in customer-facing roles and success delivering cloud solutions with IaC automation on projects.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Engineering, Business, or a related field preferred; MBA or advanced degree is a plus.
• 7+ years of experience in cloud consulting or services delivery, with a strong focus on architecting and implementing cloud solutions in client environments.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with public cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP), including design, deployment, and operational management of cloud-native and hybrid workloads.
• In-depth experience in automation, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), Configuration-as-Code (CaC) and management of cloud hosted resources
• Experience working in a DevOps and Agile culture
• Experience with industry DevOps and IaC tools such as Hashicorp Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins is preferred
• Experience in DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing is a preferred
• Background in application development, .Net, or other development frameworks is a plus
• Background in systems engineering, networking, and server infrastructure also works
• Certifications in relevant technologies, cloud providers, or demonstration of ongoing learning
• 1-2 years of leading teammates or being part of large teams on projects
• Breadth of knowledge across Google AWS and Azure Cloud products & solutions
• Be able to deploy through automation and translate from and/or contribute to application design architectures.
• Understanding of cloud computing technologies, business drivers, emerging computing trends and deployment projects
• Experience and knowledge in container architectures and deployment
• Experience with large cloud public provider: Azure, AWS
• Experience with network architecture, topologies, hybrid connectivity, and modern approaches to networking design
• Experience in relevant tools such as: Docker, Kubernetes, GitOps, Terraform, Helm, and other cloud native tools and techniques
• High integrity, with a proactive, positive approach to work
• Ability to present and speak to complex solutions in a client facing delivery or presales role
• Agile experience is a plus.
• Ability and desire to learn new technologies quickly
• Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort with both large and small audiences.
• Excellent written and verbal communication

Responsibilities

• Build a self-service cloud platform that enables application teams to deploy securely and consistently using golden paths and automation.
• Leverage the latest DevOps and Cloud automation tools such as Hashicorp Terraform, ARM Template, Cloud Formation, Powershell, Azure DevOps, and/or GitHub Actions to deploy cloud solutions for enterprise clients
• Become a full-stack Hashicorp and automation focused Cloud Architect
• Create Azure landing zones and platform guardrails
• Work on teams that design, plan and implement cloud solutions for enterprise customers in a major public cloud provider: Azure & AWS
• Work on teams that design, plan and implement container platform-based solutions in a Kubernetes platform
• Work on large-scale app modernization projects through application rationalization and modernization processes
• Work on client projects that encompass systems architecture, proof-of-concept and technical deployment services
• Integrate emerging technologies into offerings to provide sales teams additional opportunities to approach customers with new ideas/engagement.
• Collaborate with Practice leadership and thought leaders on pre-sales engagements, solution designs and proposals
• Become a partner, subject-matter expert and trusted advisor to clients, advising on best-fit technologies and best practices

Benefits

• Freedom to work from another location—even an international destination—for up to 30 consecutive calendar days per year.
• Full medical, dental, vision, and company 401k match.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level