Senior Cloud Engineer

Genesis10 - Atlanta, GA

Full-time - Senior

Atlanta, GA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

Genesis10 is currently seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer with our client in the transportation industry in their Atlanta, GA location. This is a 12 month + contract position. The client is on a journey to become the best IT organization in the airline industry, undergoing a transformation that changes the way they do business from top to bottom. They strive to create meaningful and innovative solutions and are looking for team members to help realize this vision. The Senior Cloud Engineer will provide technical leadership and design expertise for AWS Foundation integration, define standards and patterns for leveraging AWS services efficiently, and lead automation of AWS integration processes and tasks. Additionally, the role involves aiding the development of Public Cloud Usage Statistics and Reporting dashboards for account owners, developing frameworks and tools for development teams to consume authorized AWS services, and partnering with the DevTools team to develop and deploy a CI/CD pipeline using tools such as Gitlab, Maven, and Jenkins. The engineer will also lead automation development using Ansible or CloudFormation to support the acceleration of application delivery into AWS, ensuring that Security-by-Design is a foundational component of every application deployed into AWS. Furthermore, the engineer will ensure enterprise monitoring standards are applied to each AWS application deployment, contribute to the creation and management of Intranet FAQs, user guides, and knowledgebase documents, and provide leadership in identifying new concepts, ideas, techniques, and technology assistance. The role requires performing cost-benefit analysis to determine the best system architecture and mentoring engineering and development staff on public cloud integration design and hygiene, driving quality, consistency, resiliency, security, and supportability into designs. The engineer will also partner with peer infrastructure teams to provide enterprise-class AWS integration and design and maintain standard templates, reference architectures, and design patterns that aid other Cloud Engineers in developing standards-based designs.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and design expertise for AWS Foundation integration
• Define standards and patterns for when and how to efficiently leverage AWS services
• Lead automation of AWS integration processes and tasks
• Aid development of Public Cloud Usage Statistics and Reporting dashboards for account owners
• Develop frameworks and tools to enable dev teams to consume authorized AWS services
• Partner with the DevTools team to develop and deploy a CI/CD pipeline leveraging tools such as Gitlab, Maven and Jenkins
• Lead automation development using Ansible or CloudFormation to support acceleration of application delivery into AWS
• Ensure Security-by-Design is a foundational component of every app deployed into AWS
• Ensure enterprise monitoring standards are applied to each AWS app deployment
• Contribute to creation, management and upkeep of Intranet FAQs, user guides and knowledgebase, standards and build documents for AWS Foundations integration
• Provide leadership in identifying new concepts, ideas, techniques, and technology assistance
• Perform cost benefit analysis to determine best system architecture via software, hardware, internal cloud, externally hosted or other defined model
• Mentor engineering and development staff on public cloud integration design and hygiene, driving quality, consistency, resiliency, security and supportability into designs
• Partner with peer infrastructure teams to provide enterprise class AWS integration
• Design and maintain standard templates, reference architectures, and design patterns that aid other Cloud Engineers in development of standards-based designs

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in design and implementation of large enterprise public cloud environments
• 2+ years of hands-on experience integrating mission critical applications into AWS
• Deep understanding of AWS services (IAM, VPCs, Landing Zone, EC2, ECS, KMS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Systems Manager, S3, RDS, Route53, Lambda, AWS Config, etc.)
• Experience building and securing infrastructure as code using CloudFormation, Ansible, SAM and/or similar tools
• Fluency with one or more scripting/coding languages such as Java, Javascript, REST, JSON, Python, bash
• Experience implementing and leveraging the logging and monitoring solutions
• Experience in cloud native architectures and micro-services design
• Understanding of the shared responsibility model in AWS
• Proven record of accomplishments in major enterprise level projects
• Experience in design of complex distributed systems environments
• Demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges
• Ability to clearly communicate and present to various levels of the organization
• Strong organizational and analytical skills with attention to detail
• Independent and self-motivated and very thorough worker
• Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal)
• Demonstrated teamwork skills
• Innovative and creative
• Strong problem-solving abilities

Nice-to-haves

• AWS Certified Professional

Benefits

• Access to hundreds of clients, most who have been working with Genesis10 for 5-20+ years.
• The opportunity to have a career-home in Genesis10; many of our consultants have been working exclusively with Genesis10 for years.
• Access to an experienced, caring recruiting team (more than 7 years of experience, on average.)
• Behavioral Health Platform
• Medical, Dental, Vision
• Health Savings Account
• Voluntary Hospital Indemnity (Critical Illness & Accident)
• Voluntary Term Life Insurance
• 401K
• Sick Pay (for applicable states/municipalities)
• Commuter Benefits (Dallas, NYC, SF)
• Remote opportunities available