Intermediate Cloud Engineer
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Cloud Engineer
Job Title: Cloud Engineer
Type: One-year contract
Location: Remote
Your new company
Responsibilities
- Facilitate the onboarding process for cloud consumers, including environment provisioning and role development, ensuring a seamless transition.
- Oversee critical cloud accounts, manage cloud request tickets, and serve as the intermediary between application owners and cloud service providers.
- Support partners in prototyping, demonstrating, and integrating products within customer environments.
- Provide expert consultation on AWS services, best practices, and cost optimization strategies to promote efficient cloud adoption.
- Design, implement, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available cloud infrastructure solutions.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to automate cloud operations and enhance system reliability.
- Monitor cloud environments for performance, security, and cost efficiency, implementing corrective actions as necessary.
- Participate in engineering escalated on-call rotations to offer 24/7 support for critical cloud platforms.
- Engage actively in Agile development teams, contributing to daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives.
- Deliver regular status updates, identify issues, and propose solutions during team meetings.
- Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation for cloud architectures, processes, and procedures.
- Stay informed about emerging cloud technologies and trends, assessing their potential impact on the company's cloud strategy.
What you'll need to succeed
- University degree or college diploma in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
- Minimum of 3 years of relevant experience in server administration, cloud solution administration, or cloud engineering within an enterprise environment.
- Proven expertise with AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, and VPC.
- Proficiency in programming and/or scripting languages like Python, Perl, Java, Bash, or Ruby.
- Strong knowledge of cloud-based platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and services, including IAM roles, permissions, and security policies.
- Hands-on experience with DevOps practices and tools (e.g., CI/CD pipelines, Terraform, Jenkins, Ansible).
- Experience with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) is advantageous.
- Understanding of networking concepts (e.g., DNS, TCP/IP, firewalls, load balancers) and security best practices in cloud environments.
- Familiarity with serverless computing (e.g., AWS Lambda, Azure Functions) and event-driven architectures.
Preferred Skills:
- Cloud certification from a public cloud provider (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, or equivalent).
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to build customer confidence and establish trusted partnerships.
- Ability to create and deliver technical documents, artifacts, and documentation (e.g., architecture diagrams, runbooks, process flows).
- Analytical mindset with the ability to troubleshoot complex issues and translate technical challenges into business impacts.
- Experience with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., CloudWatch, Splunk, Datadog) for performance optimization and incident management.
- Familiarity with Agile methodologies and tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence).
What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
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