Senior Cloud Engineer

Premier Inc.

1d•$90,000 - $150,000•Remote

About The Position

Senior Cloud Engineer What you will be doing: The Senior Cloud Engineer will design, implement, secure, and manage private and public cloud infrastructure. Collaborates with development leads and architects to ensure cloud-native workloads are deployed according to IT best practices for security, governance, identity and access management, and monitoring. Collaborates with infrastructure leads and architects to ensure high levels of resilience (failover, workload balancing, backup & recovery, disaster recovery, vulnerability management) in all cloud environments. Responsible for overall strategy for moving all applications to cloud-native platforms. Integrates cloud compute environments with traditional data center services. Maintains a keen market awareness of cloud platform alternatives and differentiators to communicate a rationalized Cloud roadmap. Provides project leadership for requirements gathering design, planning, coordination, and implementation of releases, upgrades, or changes to the Premier computing environment. Serves as an escalation point for troubleshooting problems, and the rapid restoration of production service incidents. Leads project teams and works closely with internal and external customers and vendors to provide proposals and supporting analysis for operational improvement and ongoing project requirements. Possesses an enterprise view of the business environment and the business applications running on the systems being managed. Provides day-to-day guidance and coaching to cross-functional team members, Engineers, Administrators and Associates • Cloud Networking • Security and Governance • Compute Stacks/Configuration Management • Software Development and Deployment. CI/CD. Terraform. • Utilization / Cost optimization of various resources within cloud platform

Requirements

Work Experience: Years of Applicable Experience - 4 or more years
Education: High School Diploma or GED (Required)
Compute stacks, scripting, automation, and orchestration
Configuration management, cloud networking, security
DevOps, governance, financial analysis, Data analytics and ETL tools on cloud

Nice To Haves

Experience: Application Delivery concepts via cloud-native traditional infrastructure platforms and ability to apply them to solve problems and provide solutions
Experience with supporting hybrid cloud environments, deploying cloud direct connect communication links and minimizing egress costs
Education: CCNA/CCNP; Google Certified Professional Cloud Architect, AWS Certified Solutions Architect-Associate, AWS Certified SysOps Administrator, AWS Certified Developer – Associate, Microsoft Azure Fundamentals, Administrator or Associate Solutions Architect
Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited university
Remain in a stationary position for prolonged periods of time
Be adaptive and change priorities quickly; meet deadlines
Attention to detail
Operate computer programs and software
Ability to communicate effectively with audiences in person and in electronic formats.
Day-to-day contact with others (co-workers and/or the public)
Making independent decisions
Ability to work in a collaborative business environment in close quarters with peers and varying interruptions

Responsibilities

Workload and Cost Optimization – 30% - Ensure all workloads are on the correct platform based on product revenue, criticality, performance profile, and cost - Migrate workloads between platforms as needed - Provide resource consumption reporting (for all public/private/cloud container platforms (by application) to TechOps and business teams on a monthly basis. Review and refine reporting for maximum impact - Adapt self-service and manual provisioning interfaces and processes to drive the provisioning of resources on the most business and cost appropriate platforms - Establish processes to identify over-provisioning of resources, automatically reclaim resources, and notify stakeholders - Implement controls that ensure individual workload consumption is either approved by business stakeholders or constrained by compute pool resource limits - Support efforts to establish “show back” of all costs associated with internal and external cloud and container platforms
DevOps Integration & Technology Assessment – 20% - Partner with development team leads and team members to support velocity in continuous integration and delivery process - Maintain awareness of and proficiency in development team CI/CD processes and tools - Ensure software development pipeline, testing, code repository, and issue tracking systems integrate well with cloud and container platform services - Work with Development iteration teams in an agile environment including but not limited to attending/stand ups, product meetings and involvement with sprint tasks - Identify applications on traditional infrastructure that could be re-expressed in cloud environments and develop priorities for migration based on level of effort and cost benefit - Play a key role in the technical deployment for new application initiatives, beginning at the business requirements stage, to determine and deliver technical components necessary to build and deploy the new application - Ensures technical and architectural requirements are incorporated appropriately within new system initiatives - Play a key role in technology evaluation, selection, integration and implementation of new systems architectures, tools and techniques - Review and analyzes vendor-supplied utilities, software packages and engineering releases for the environment - Attend vendor conferences and presentations to maintain current and develop new business relevant skills
Administration and Support – 20% - Provide hands-on support for private/public cloud and container-based platforms. Provide 24 hour on call support for incident management and service restoration on a rotational basis - Ensure platform availability with proper monitoring of key events and alerting to appropriate service owners for conditions that can result in degradation or downtime of services - Provision workloads on appropriate compute platforms - Assist development teams with self-service and API call challenges - Review incident trends and proactively register problems. Plan and implement changes to address risks and inefficiencies - Establish standards, document change procedures, coordinate planned maintenance, and communicate impacts to stakeholders - Trains others in proper procedures for handling issues. Teach and train automation skills utilizing via shell scripts and scheduling tools - Maintain and update relevant components of the IT disaster recovery plan. Performs recovery testing as part of an overall disaster recovery planning process - Ensures all application and data components can be recovered according to backup retention policies - Develop a baseline understanding of system and component performance and resource utilization trends. Use this information to project growth requirements and plan for future capacity requirements - Develop and maintain as-built documentation, network drawings, network configurations and operating procedures
Cloud Security – 15% - Continuously seek new means and methods to improve the security posture of all cloud and container environments - Partner with security team to document current methods and explore new means to perform vulnerability assessment (VA) in cloud environments - Regularly review all “build” templates to ensure current patch levels, minimum services enabled, and acceptable VA scan results - Ensure all workloads have network isolation from each other through segmentation methods approved by the Network Manager and Security Operations VP - Ensure the Network and Security teams have all possible visibility to network traffic and “net flow” data in cloud & container environments - Drive continuous improvement in patch management processes and vulnerability management policy - Implement role-based access privileges in each platform that ensure user roles have the least possible access needed to perform their business function - Validate access requests with appropriate managers and optimize group membership-based access methods
Relationship Management – 15% - Work with service providers to maintain current implementations of hardware, software, and services to ensure maximum value, performance, and availability - Identify risks and gaps across the technology stack and escalate them into vendor governance as needed - Document, develops and maintains effective working relations with users, vendors, and other department personnel