Principal Cloud Engineer

General Summary:

The Principal Cloud Engineer II is responsible for working with cross-functional teams to design, test, expand, implement, monitor, and document cloud services utilized in the product. This role will drive improvement projects around deployment, security, and performance while supporting basic engineering tasks including scripting, automation, and code reviews.  

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provides support to the Engineering teams, with a high attention to detail

• Researches, analyzes, and documents findings

• May coach and review the work of other team members

• Designs, builds, and delivers cloud computing solutions, hosted services, and underlying software infrastructure

• Designs and architects solutions for existing client-facing applications as they are moved into cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud

• Supports and troubleshoots scalability, high availability, performance, monitoring, backup, and restorations of different environments

• Assists with deployment, automation, and security of cloud servers hosting our applications

• Reviews, documents, and implements security policies on cloud infrastructure

• Ensures required proactive diagnostics and monitoring of cloud infrastructure are in place

• Architects automation solutions for reduction of costs and efficiencies improvement

• Maintains awareness of PaaS, LaaS, and related technology trends and how trends impact product 

• Provide direction toward improving our existing CI/CD processes and drive IAC adoption across the organization

Knowledge, Skills, and/or Abilities Required:  

• Ability to manage projects and processes independently with limited supervision

• Advanced knowledge of applicable work area

• Ability to situationally adapt and understand new technology/processes as per business requirement

• Strong knowledge of Cloud Infrastructure Environments (Microsoft Azure, AKS (Azure Kubernetes Services) 

• Knowledge of programming and scripting languages (Python, Terraform, Cloud Formation)

• Strong knowledge of IAC (Terraform)

• Knowledge of System Administration for both Linux and Windows based servers

• Ability to work constructively and independently under stress and pressure in a fast paced, multi-tasking environment

• Ability to interact positively and openly with colleagues and external business contacts, with strong verbal and written communication skills

• Ability to manage competing priorities and multi-task while producing high quality work

• Strong problem-solving skills

• Strong organization and time management skills with the ability to meet reasonable deadlines

• Strong technical skills including networking, security, and database design

• Strong knowledge of relevant software development tools including version control, build processes, debuggers, and test frameworks

• Knowledge and proven working experience with Cloud infrastructure including deployment and monitoring of available, scalable, secure environments 

Educational/Vocational/Previous Experience Recommendations:

• Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent business experience

• 6+ years of relevant experience

Working Conditions:

• Onsite/Hybrid/Remote depending on location

• 0-10% travel may be required