Senior Cloud Engineer
A+E Networks
New York, NYThis was removed by the employer on 9/9/2016 9:37:00 PM PST
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This Sr. Cloud Engineer is responsible for engineering and delivering cloud solutions. He/She will leverage broad technical knowledge of the public Cloud offerings of key providers, including Amazon Web Services, Azure, and Google to architect custom solutions that meet the business and security needs of the enterprise. Work in conjunction with knowledgeable architects to develop Unified Data Architecture ecosystem solutions in the Cloud with designs for scalable security. Identify, establish, and manage AWS Test Drives, Proof of Concept (POC), and production engagements on the public Cloud. Define new as-a-service packages in areas including analytics, database, and platform that leverage public Cloud environments and support internal developers and external partners. Participate in the design and development of a Cloud or hybrid architecture that will be aligned with the organization and business unit objectives based on business, information, application, and system requirements. The Sr. Cloud Engineer collaborates with technical leadership and business stakeholders to develop cloud solutions to meet operational goals for high availability, performance, stability, scalability security, and cost efficiency that expands the globe.
The individual brings a commercial mindset to the role and demonstrates a strong sense of personal accountability in providing end-to-end delivery. The person must possess a demonstrated track record in bringing efficiency in day-to-day operations. The individual has excellent ability to work collaboratively across cultures in a global environment. As a key member of the Enterprise Solutions team, this role drives the implementation of numerous Infrastructure projects and initiatives that form the basis for A E's Cloud eco-system. Responsible for providing mid-level expertise as part of the team that designs, builds, and supports global LAN, WAN, and cloud network infrastructure. The ideal candidate will be extremely skilled at planning, executing and controlling a portfolio of projects including cloud transformation projects, data center moves & consolidations, tool implementation/integrations as well as small development efforts. The individual will record and document internal processes to share with the rest of the organization. Due to the fast-moving environment, the role requires a strong level of comfort with a dynamic pace and shifting priorities.
Cloud Computing
• Drive ''Cloud First'' strategy for all initiatives.
• Define roadmaps for migrating legacy systems to the cloud.
• Review project requirements, evaluating industry-strength XaaS solutions and providing architectural recommendation based on best-fit and/or best-of-breed considerations.
• Responsible for the design, provisioning, installation, configuration, operation, and maintenance of the required hardware, software, and related infrastructure supporting Arup's Cloud strategy.
• Provide high-level and detailed consultative solutions and technical support for cloud-related opportunities.
• Understand business requirements and be able to translate them into technical requirements.
• Manage full application stacks from the OS through custom applications using Amazon and/or Azure cloud based computing environments.
• Ensures that the systems hardware, operating systems, application software, and related procedures adhere to organizational compliancy and operational requirements.
• Establish and operationalize governance of cloud-based assets.
• Define the system landscape, identify gaps between the current and desired end-states, and deliver cloud-based solutions.
• Analyze feedback from user interviews, usability studies and focus groups, translate analysis into design decisions, and manage exceptions to standards.
• Identify key technology overlaps and gaps and formulate strategies to optimize technology spend, efficiency and effectiveness.
• Establish and maintain relationships with cloud service providers and cloud brokers.
• Understand security and identify encryption and controls needed to protect information.
Collaboration and Partnership
• Engage with IT and management teams to devise a cloud strategy that addresses the company and business unit requirements.
• Partner with leadership to develop and enforce technology standards and ensure that business information needs are understood and mapped to feasible architectures and infrastructures.
• Verify and monitor Cloud environments and controls to ensure processes are mature and capable of supporting our Cloud objectives and best practice design.
• Report on gaps, issues, failures or concerns of established Cloud application or infrastructure frameworks and architecture to remediate and provide early solutions to problems.
• Maintain Cloud environments by monitoring and ensuring compliance to standards, policies, and procedures.
• Recommend alternate choices, trade-offs, and impact analysis.
• Work with technical teams and senior architects to finalize specifications related to integration between numerous systems; including but not limited to public, private, and hybrid cloud designs.
• Collaborate with enterprise architects and information architects to ensure cloud services align to roadmaps and understand the effect on the organization's information and enterprise architecture.
• Liaise with external providers to resolve any issues in the functionality and interoperability of new cloud applications, cloud-based infrastructure, and other cloud services with existing IT systems.
• Coordinate testing efforts to identify and resolve system integration issues.
• Provide leadership and subject matter expertise in deployment and operations for the developer community.
Operational Support
• Participate in technical research and development to enable continuing innovation within the Systems and Application Development teams.
• Lead internationalization efforts to make our services available worldwide.
• Research, experiment with, and inform on emerging technologies and tooling to improve the developer and member experience.
• Participate in on-call duty alongside other team members.
• Create test cases, unit tests and automation scripts.
• Playing an important role in improving the team's technical depth and efficiency.
• Ensure successful completion of projects on time and operational stability.
• Adhere to vendor and industry best practices whenever possible to ensure operational integrity.
Qualification Requirements Requirements:
• AWS Certifcation as an Associate or Professional Solutions Architect is highly desired.
• Experience designing and building web application environments on AWS
• Strong understanding and knowledge of AWS Services (EC2, Network, ELB, S3/EBS, etc.)
• Experience with Linux and Automation Tools (Chef or Puppet)
• Experience with scripting languages such as PHP, Pearl, Ruby.
• Experience with Agile development methodologies and implementing them to AWS DevOps practices.
• Experience with scripting and automation is required.
• Experience with relational database or Hadoop technologies in the application development environment, including Teradata, DB2, Redshift, RDS, Oracle, and Cloudera.
• Deep technical experience in one or more of the following areas: Software design or development, Application Design, Systems Operations / Management, Database architecture, Virtualization, IP Networking, Storage, IT Security, Lin
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