Cloud Engineer (Hybrid)

Avenu Insights & Analytics - New Orleans, LA

Full-time

New Orleans, LA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

Avenu Insights & Analytics is seeking a Cloud Engineer to lead the design, implementation, and integration of complex enterprise cloud solutions. This role focuses on ensuring optimal performance, security, and cost-efficiency across various cloud platforms while collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive innovation and maintain robust security and compliance standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture and integration of multiple complex enterprise cloud solutions, considering performance, availability, security, and cost optimization.
• Lead the selection and implementation of middleware cloud management solutions.
• Analyze the technology environment, document requirements, establish a collaborative framework, design solution prototypes, and participate in the selection of solutions.
• Oversee the deployment, configuration, and maintenance of cloud infrastructure, including virtual machines, networking, storage, and security measures.
• Implement and maintain robust security controls, identity and access management, and compliance standards across cloud environments in collaboration with cybersecurity staff.
• Monitor and optimize cloud resources to ensure efficient utilization, cost-effectiveness, and optimal performance.
• Conduct continuous system health checks, assist with incident resolution, and perform root cause analysis.
• Ensure business continuity through thorough backup and restore procedures and conduct periodic testing of outage scenarios.
• Interact and collaborate professionally with colleagues at all levels.
• Support infrastructure migrations to cloud environments and identify on-premises technologies and their cloud counterparts.
• Coordinate integration testing as part of release management across multiple cloud platforms.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of work experience designing, executing, and supporting IT cloud solutions.
• At least one of the following certifications: AWS Certified Solutions Architect, GCP Professional Cloud Architect Certification, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, OCM Oracle Certified Master, or equivalent certification.

Nice-to-haves

• Master's degree in a related field.
• Experience with hybrid cloud environments.
• Familiarity with microservices architecture and containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Advanced knowledge of networking principles and cloud networking services.
• Experience with cloud cost management and optimization tools.