Cloud Engineer (Advisor)

Position Title: Cloud Engineer (Advisor) (Confidential Client)
Location: Plano TX Hybrid
Employment Type: Permanent

Compensation

• Salary: $155000 - $209000/yr
• Bonus: 20%

Position Summary

As a valued contributor to our team you will design and develop unprecedented solutions for Cloud Engineering solving complex or unusual business problems across several projects programs or products. This work includes architecture design coding testing and certifying technology platforms software and applications.

The Cloud Infrastructure - Technology Engineering Advisor role will afford you the opportunity to work as an individual contributor while partnering with peers at the Manager and Senior Manager levels. The ideal candidate brings extensive experience in team building collaboration and facilitation of Cloud engineering in a large multinational Fortune 500 enterprise. This individual will possess extensive experience in secure scalable cloud infrastructure with proven leadership this role you will manage large-scale public cloud platforms (AWS Azure GCP).

Primary Responsibilities

• Develop and execute strategic cloud infrastructure plans and drive best practices
• Design and implement cloud strategies and architectures
• Build robust and modern solutions with hands-on coding
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement and innovation
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align cloud solutions with business goals
• Stay current with cloud technologies and industry trends
• Develop technical documentation and executive-level presentations
• Mentor junior engineers
• Ensure integration of cloud solutions with existing systems
• Identify and mitigate risks; troubleshoot complex issues
• Advocate for cloud best practices and standards

Must-Haves

• 6 years of hands-on experience engineering cloud platforms
• Skilled in engineering resilient highly available cloud solutions in secure multi-cloud environments (e.g. AWS Azure GCP)
• Deep knowledge of cloud infrastructure network architecture security and identity management
• Experience in building cloud environments (accounts and VPCs) and software-defined networking that allows for connectivity across enterprise platforms
• Ability to design Fault Tolerant platforms and implement Failover and Recovery Strategies
• Skilled in DevOps and modern CI/CD methodologies and tools
• Automating cloud orchestration with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to scale services
• Experience with Cloud-native development frameworks and tools (e.g. VPC Lambda SNS)
• Understanding of modern cloud scalability to right-size resources to meet platform computing needs
• Analytics and KPI usage to continuously evolve and improve Cloud Platforms
• Knowledgeable of modern cloud architecture and holistic developer experience
• Ability to train and develop mid-senior level engineers
• Strong understanding of mission-critical environments
• Ability to advise technical and non-technical stakeholders on Cloud Strategy and solutions
• Strong problem solving critical thinking and analytical skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelors degree or equivalent
• Cloud Certifications
• Experience working in mission-critical environments

Required Technical Skills and Tools

• Public Cloud Services: AWS
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform CloudFormation JSON YAML and ARM Templates
• Programming/Scripting: Shell Script Python PHP JavaScript Perl Ruby and AWS Step Functions
• OS: Linux
• DevOps Practices: Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD)
• Networking: Understanding cloud network architecture VPCs and load balancing
• Security: Implementing security best practices access control and data encryption
• Compliance: Adhering to industry regulations and compliance standards