Staff Cloud Engineer

$114,750 - $151,018/Yr

Medidata Solutions - Iselin, NJ

Full-time - Senior

Hybrid - Iselin, NJ

Publishing Industries

About the position

The Senior Cloud Engineer position would be part of our Cloud Infrastructure team. We work collaboratively with other Cloud Operations teams and Information Security to manage, deploy, and maintain our AWS Infrastructure, supporting multiple AWS Accounts and cloud-based services. With a focus on automation and deployment of cloud infrastructure and support for best-practice standards and controls to provide a flexible and consistent experience to our teams. The Senior Cloud Engineer will report to the Manager of Cloud Infrastructure and be part of our Cloud Operations organization.

Responsibilities

• Contribute technical efforts to design and deploy infrastructure services to the cloud
• Lead projects to improve scalability, security, and automation
• Identify and help improve Infrastructure tools/services with automation and process enhancements
• Troubleshoot and maintain important production and testing infrastructure
• Identify recurring issues and collaborate with Release and Operations team(s) on resolution plan
• Work with other teams to understand software and requirements, prioritize issues and set clear expectations on deliverables and resolution
• Create knowledge base articles that can be used by our organization in response to routine or complex incidents
• Participate in 24x7 on-call rotation

Requirements

• Knowledge of standard internet protocols including: DNS, HTTP/S, SSH, TLS
• Knowledge of AWS cloud services (EC2, VPC, IAM, etc.)
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Ability to take the lead on projects and provide feedback and status
• 5+ years of Infrastructure design, implementation, and support experience
• 3 - 5 years experience working in a regulated environment
• Experience working with Unix/Linux and Windows systems
• Experience scripting using Python, Ruby, Bash, or other equivalent language
• Experience providing production operations support on client-facing systems and products in a hosting/vendor environment

Benefits

• Medical, dental, life and disability insurance
• 401(k) matching
• Flexible paid time off
• 10 paid holidays per year