Cloud Engineer (Flex Home/Office)

$141,000 - $239,000/Yr

American Family Insurance Group - Boston, MA

Full-time

Boston, MA

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About the position

This position is responsible for designing, implementing, and managing cloud and legacy on-prem solutions with a focus on application operations and DevOps practices. The role requires a strong background in application development and operations, specifically in Windows Server administration, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and GitLab. The ideal candidate will drive continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) processes, ensuring scalable, efficient, and secure cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Provide expertise in project initial phases including resource estimation, technology selection, and proof of concepts.
• Design, develop, and maintain cloud solutions with a focus on software-defined infrastructure.
• Communicate system design and development plans to the team at the appropriate level.
• Collaborate with others to validate complex design decisions and mitigate high-risk features or technical challenges.
• Collaborate with engineering and operations teams to enhance software reliability.
• Troubleshoot complex issues across tools, processes, and infrastructure.
• Recommend tools and practices to boost development and operations efficiency and reliability.
• Manage service configuration, deployment, and troubleshooting.
• Document design decisions, code modules, and performance metrics as per standards.
• Mentor staff, conduct development reviews, and define/lead testing phases.

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience providing customer-driven solutions, support or service.
• Demonstrated experience analyzing and understanding complex software/systems.
• Demonstrated experience communicating technical information.
• Demonstrated experience developing different solution-delivery and design approaches and solutions to customers.
• Demonstrated experience developing complex software/systems using one or more programming language.
• Demonstrated experience analyzing and estimating project size and work efforts for software solutions.
• Demonstrated experience providing technical guidance to less experienced staff.
• Extensive knowledge and understanding of software development and design standards and methodologies.
• Extensive knowledge and understanding of infrastructure technologies, operating systems, and the interconnectivity between infrastructure platforms and software tools.
• Extensive knowledge and understanding of systems development life cycle (SDLC).
• Solid knowledge and understanding of application architecture and design alternatives.
• Solid knowledge and understanding of integration and migration strategies and technologies.

Nice-to-haves

• Deep knowledge of AWS, and containerized applications.
• EC2 VM administration is a bonus.
• Administration of Windows server, using Powershell.
• Proficiency with Gitlab pipelines, Ansible, Maven.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision and wellbeing benefits.
• Competitive 401(k) contribution.
• Pension plan.
• Annual incentive.
• 9 paid holidays.
• Paid time off program (23 days accrued annually for full-time employees).
• Student loan repayment program.
• Paid-family leave.