Cloud DevOps Engineer

Etek It Services - Omaha, NE

Full-time - Mid Level

Hybrid - Omaha, NE

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Cloud DevOps Engineer role at Pacific Life involves building and maintaining the cloud infrastructure that supports various application development teams. This hybrid position requires collaboration with other engineers and developers to ensure the security, performance, and operational readiness of cloud services. The engineer will also mentor team members and contribute to the overall digital transformation of the organization.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Application Developers, Cloud Engineers, and Architects to determine appropriate Cloud Services for business requirements.
• Configure cloud services, including networking strategies, security groups, roles, and policies.
• Create runbooks and ensure operational readiness of delivered solutions.
• Build operational services to secure Cloud accounts, monitor data protection, and ensure recoverability in case of failures.
• Integrate security best practices for cloud assets and work with the corporate security team to enforce policies.
• Work within a Scrum team to prioritize and organize work efforts.
• Ensure end-to-end availability and performance of mission-critical services and automate responses to non-exceptional service conditions.
• Train application owners on building Azure ADO CI/CD pipelines for their application code.
• Build Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using scripting such as Terraform and train others.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, information security, application, and support teams to review design and test plans.
• Mentor others in cloud-native architecture principles and best practices.
• Communicate complex details in an understandable manner.
• Serve as an expert within the organization, recommending process, product, or service improvements.

Requirements

• 4+ years experience in a cloud, DevOps, SecOps, or software engineering role.
• 4+ years hands-on experience in building cloud infrastructure or cloud-native applications via IaC, preferably in AWS.
• Minimum of 2 AWS certifications, excluding AWS Practitioner.
• Experience with AWS services such as EC2, EBS, EFS, S3, Glacier, ECR, ELB, Lambda, Fargate, Auto Scaling, Cost Explorer, System Manager, Trusted Advisor, RDS, Redshift, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, Cost Optimization, and overall AWS account management.
• Experience with Linux (CentOS, RedHat, AL2, Ubuntu) and Windows OS.
• Experience scripting using Terraform, Python, JSON, and/or CloudFormation.

Nice-to-haves

• BS in Computer Science and/or Engineering, or equivalent experience and certifications.
• Experience with CloudGuard Dome9, Imperva, Terraform/TFE, Azure ADO, Ansible, CyberArk products, Splunk, SonarQube, Qualys, and Logic Monitor.