Sr. Cloud Platform Engineer (Terraform)

*6-month contract to hire*

Hybrid: 3x a week onsite in Charlotte, NC

Optomi in partnership with our premier client in the financial services industry, is seeking a Cloud Engineer with strong skills in Terraform to join their team! The candidate will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining infrastructure as code solutions and tools for our cloud-based systems and applications. The candidate will work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure that our cloud infrastructure adheres to industry best practices and regulatory compliance standards.

The Work Itself

• Design, develop, and prototype cloud deployed services, and serverless applications using infrastructure as code (Terraform) to enable business capabilities in alignment with architecture direction and standards.
• Develop and maintain reusable, inner-sourced Terraform modules for enterprise consumption, collaborating closely with cloud security partners and internal customers.
• Lead the development and deployment of new features and tooling to solve complex problems at scale.
• Participate in an agile delivery process, and as part of that help size stories and own, research, and recommend new solutions.
• Aid in implementation of monitoring using various tools, collection of metrics to enhance visibility, & implement alerting to enhance service reliability.
• Develop and maintain policies, procedures, and documentation related to infrastructure deployment patterns and best practices.
• Be passionate about your work, your teammates’ success, and our customers’ needs.

The Skills You Bring:

• Preferable Certifications: AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, or relevant certifications
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related relevant experience
• Expert knowledge of application and AWS (cloud) architecture and related technologies
• Proficiency designing and building reusable Terraform modules.
• Strong DevOps process experience with tools such as Gitlab
• Experience implementing serverless and event-driven solutions.
• Comfortable building solutions as an individual and as a leader of others concurrently
• Excellent technical documentation capabilities (e.g., data models, process diagrams, high-level designs)
• Strategic thinking abilities and an enterprise-wide perspective
• Automation & Scripting (Python, Bash, etc)
• Familiarity with administration of Linux operating systems is a plus