Staff Cloud Engineer

Staff Cloud Engineer

Requirements

• Deep understanding of Amazon Web Services (AWS) including IAM, authentication protocols and networking
• Proven experience solving capacity challenges by utilizing dynamic scaling using containerization and/or serverless approaches, ensuring high availability and reliability with redundancy, and leveraging services like Direct Connect and/or AWS Outposts for hybrid connectivity
• Understand and utilize various infrastructure architecture models (like centralized vs distributed) to define how resources, data, and processes are organized and managed within an organization’s IT infrastructure – building and maintaining IT systems that are scalable, reliable, and secure
• Mastery of AWS Well Architected Framework principles
• Expert with troubleshooting and root cause analysis
• Hands-on experience with at least 2 programming languages (Python, Java, C++, etc.) and experience writing infrastructure as code using Terragrunt and/or Terraform; our hands-on technical test requires both Python and Terraform
• Strong analytical skills
• Effective communication skills, both verbal and written
• Proven experience with building deployment pipelines and enabling self-service
• Strong teamwork and willingness to collaborate with others
• Comfortable working with engineers to introduce new technologies and resolve technical challenges

Responsibilities

• Strategically plan and design cloud solutions that address diverse business needs of our customers while helping to manage risk around security, networking, authentication/authorization, and account structures dealing in both cloud-only and hybrid (on-prem) environments
• Survey the broad landscape of available technologies and services across networking, compute, storage, and platforms and decide which combination best solves the business goals
• Utilize solution and technical architecture abilities to analyze business requirements and create high level design documents, reference architectures, networking maps, state diagrams, process and data flows, and technology roadmaps that serve as guides for implementation teams and stakeholders
• Collaborate with cloud engineers to communicate cloud architectures, ensure the best practices and patterns are being followed, and adapt to any necessary deviations from the original design (changing business requirements, unforeseen technical limitations, etc)
• Create design specifications, architecture diagrams, required resources documents, migration plans, security and compliance checklists, and cloud adoption strategies that define approach, standards, and best practices for cloud usage in the organization
• Provide thought leadership around industry technology trends and infrastructure as code programming best practices
• Engage frequently in consultations with stakeholders, high-level decision makers, and subject matter experts around technical and non-technical factors to ensure all parts of the technology system can work and meet the company’s budget, timeline, and compliance goals
• Work closely with Cybersecurity, InfoSec and Legal teams and help make decisions around governance – such as how cloud resources will be organized (account and networking layouts), what guardrails to put into place, how data is secured and managed, and how to ensure the architecture can scale with future needs
• Create select POCs to test design patterns and technical approaches for key initiatives
• Perform post-incident analysis to identify root causes and potential workarounds/solutions
• Discover, investigate, and propose ways of saving money for the company while meeting service level agreements
• Participate in team architecture review meetings, project kickoffs, and project post-mortems
• Be fluid and open to change around evolving business requirements, processes, and tools

Preferred Qualifications

• BS or equivalent
• AWS Solutions Architect Professional certification
• Google Cloud Platform and/or Azure Cloud knowledge
• Experience in the Media & Entertainment field
• Other certifications (CCIP, CCIE, Terraform, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, etc.)