Principal AWS Cloud Engineer (Contract) Contract Full Time

VTRAC Consulting Corporation
“Intelligent Resources”

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Position #: 21-00078
Title: Principal AWS Cloud Engineer (Contract)
Type: 4 Months Contract to Perm
No. of Positions: 1
Location: Atlanta, GA or Houston, TX

Background:
A global financial organization, that offers a suite of financial products across a range of asset classes, investment styles and geographies.

Description:
The Cloud Principal Engineer is accountable for architecting and designing comprehensive solutions that meet business requirements in support of a given project or capability. The Cloud Principal Engineer will be accountable for partnering with key roles (e.g. Cloud Solution Architects, application teams, or other Infrastructure functions) to understand technical requirements and formulate detailed designs that align to architecture principles and standards, leverage common solutions and services, and meet the financial targets (cost and benefits) as defined by Infrastructure leadership.

The Cloud Principal Engineer will lead the development of a secure cloud platform foundation by defining standards and building Infrastructure as Code for approved cloud services following agile practices. The Cloud Engineer will build CI/CD pipelines to automate provisioning of cloud environments end to end, as well as enabling self-service capabilities for standard reference architectures. A Cloud Engineer must have broad knowledge of all different aspects of the technical landscape in order to validate complex architectures and ensure successful implementation.

This role will evangelize and educate application teams and business partners on how to leverage the power of public cloud. The Cloud Engineer will also champion the application of industry best practices, cloud architecture strategies and engineering standards to ensure successful cloud solutions across a wide variety of projects.

Responsibilities:

• Design of a secure Cloud Foundation, repeatable cloud patterns, templates, and/or accelerators to enable faster adoption of cloud services.
• Development of Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipelines to automate infrastructure provisioning.
• Development of process and code required to transform traditional workloads to modern architectures.
• Consult with application teams to develop an infrastructure design which is compliant with the architecture and standards of the Company. Ensure appropriate sizing of solutions, technology fit, and Disaster Recovery are assessed and accounted for.
• Maintain current understanding of AWS cloud services, evaluating value of new capabilities and prioritizing accordingly.
• Provide technical mentoring and knowledge transfer to Cloud Engineering and other Technology resources.
• Lead large scale and complex cloud service development programs.
• Consult, advise and facilitate the implementation of cloud practices and services.
• Promote, mentor and educate the client community on Cloud Adoption, Operating Guidelines/Principles, and Cloud Services/Solutions.
• Build a strong relationship and rapport with key stakeholders, including business partners, Application leads and other Infrastructure functions (Engineering, Operations, etc…).
• Technical leadership and exposure across a broad scale of tools, technologies, and architecture models.
• Ability to engage with technical members from other teams to collaborate on designs and specifications for cross-functional technical solutions.
• Provide cross-functional technical leadership across the Infrastructure organization.
• Keeps abreast of current developments and trends in cloud and assigned business domain through networking, continuing education and industry/technology publications.

Must Have Technical Skills:

• 5-7 years of public cloud engineering and adoption experience
• 7+ years-experience engineering and implementing global enterprise solutions
• In depth knowledge of AWS services such as IAM, EC2, S3, RDS, EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, Redshift, Sagemaker, Elasticsearch, Athena, Glue, Kinesis
• Experience building Infrastructure as Code using CloudFormation and/or Terraform
• Proficient in Python
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines such as Bitbucket Pipelines or Jenkins
• Experience in migrating applications to a cloud ready architecture
• Experience in Containerization – Docker, Kubernetes
• Experience securing cloud applications, data and infrastructure
• Experience working in an agile environment
• Experience with big data analytics solutions preferred
• AWS Certified Solution Architect, or ability to pursue certification within 3 months of hireMust have the ability to present technical presentations to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Strong understanding of Agile/DevOps operating model.

Others:

• Interpersonal skills necessary to effectively interact and communicate throughout the organization with a variety of individuals at all technical levels is required.
• Knowledge of mutual fund industry, data and processes preferred.
• Passionate about identifying and solving problems for customers and constantly improving customer experience.
• The ability to collaborate in a distributed team environment is critical, as well as leading cross-functional meetings to efficiently drive desirable outcomes.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, including the ability to analyze situations, identify existing or potential problems, and recommend practical solutions and implementation strategies.
• Must have the ability to establish priorities, meet deadlines and concentrate on detailed information in a fast-paced, demanding work environment following agile practices.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills are required.
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills are a must.
• A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field of study or equivalent years of direct experience required

We thank all candidates in advance. Only selected candidates for interviews will be contacted. For other exciting opportunities, please visit us at www.vtrac.com. VTRAC is an equal opportunity employer.

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