Senior AWS Cloud Engineer

About the position

Vestmark is looking to add a Senior Cloud Engineer to the Managed Services team who has the ability to automate the delivery of high performance systems. You will participate as a senior contributor in the implementation of next-generation technology stacks in a public cloud provider primarily AWS. Your expertise will drive application and infrastructure deployments for new and transitioning customers from on-premise to cloud. You will partner with other engineers and work within a team to enable and ensure software and systems integrate to achieve reliability, scalability and business objectives. You have a passion for cloud-based platforms, an Agile/DEVops mindset, and an interest in providing mentorship and solving problems.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert level design and operational best practices for AWS
• Own critical aspects of our technology deployment pipeline in areas requiring process automation, end to end infrastructure readiness, monitoring, and security
• Development of scripts to automate and facilitate integration between enterprise systems in and out of the cloud
• Ensure alignment between security architecture frameworks, standards, and overall IT strategy
• Support the migration of applications to the cloud infrastructure and assist in the analysis, tuning, and re-architecture when necessary to ensure adherence to business requirements and milestones
• Troubleshoot issues across the stack (hardware, network, firewall, applications, database, storage) and assist engineers, developers and operations teams to resolve advanced system issues
• Guide efforts across internal teams to analyze, design and add efficiency to the delivery of managed services to internal and external customers
• Participate in the design and improvement of Continuous Integration (CI) of systems and ensure adherence to CI principles
• As a subject matter expert on cloud technologies mentor and assist group members in learning these technologies
• Perform terraform code reviews to ensure best practices are adhered to
• Contribute using Agile/Scrum framework
• Participate in off hours maintenance and escalations

Requirements

• 5+ years delivering cloud solution designs, installation, and configuration using automation tools, such as Terraform, Rundeck, Jenkins and Direct Connect service providers.
• 5+ years experience implementing a production IaaS or SaaS environment
• Demonstrated experience with AWS services such as IAM, EC2, ECS, RDS, S3, Lambda, VPC, Beanstalk and providing highly-available, secure, and reliable services
• Advanced application performance monitoring, system tuning, and cost optimization
• Certified AWS Solutions Architect or equivalent
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with demonstrated technical leadership

Nice-to-haves

• Previous hands on cloud migration experience
• Microsoft technologies (Windows Server 2016/12 and SQL)
• Scripting experience (e.g. Powershell, Python)
• Understanding of Networking and Storage principals