Cloud System Engineer

About Us

At Cast & Crew, we’ve empowered creativity and supported the global entertainment industry for decades. Together with our family of brands - Backstage, CAPS, Checks & Balances, Final Draft, Media Services, Sargent-Disc, and The TEAM Companies – we operate as a combined entertainment technology and services provider offering industry standard screenwriting accounting software, digital payroll products, data & reporting, and a host of creative tools.  The industry continues to move faster than ever, and the need for our expertise, our technology, and our people has never been greater.  We are a production’s best ally every step of the way. #OneCastOneCrew

Position Overview

The Cloud Platform Engineer plays a crucial role in building our next generation of web-based products and services. As an integral member of our Software Engineering team, this position is an AWS expert and collaborates closely with talented software, QA, and DevOps engineers.

The ideal candidate will be versatile, highly motivated, and dedicated to automation, security, and high availability. Experience in an iterative, Agile environment is highly beneficial. Extensive experience in AWS and cloud technologies is required.

Core Responsibilities

• Architect and facilitate the migration of our software and products to AWS.
• Design, support, and enhance software solutions, ensuring they are secure, scalable, resilient, monitored, auditable, and cost-optimized.
• Act as the liaison between Infrastructure & Operations and Engineering teams.
• Provide systems support, including responding to monitoring alerts.
• Collaborate with developers and security engineers to implement and maintain security features.
• Continuously improve and modernize the CI/CD pipeline.
• Design and integrate test automation into the delivery pipeline.
• Help advance system architecture and infrastructure.
• Work closely with development and QA teams to automate and streamline operations and processes.
• Build, manage, and maintain tools for deployment, monitoring, and operations.
• Automate provisioning of servers with our software.
• Monitor applications, web services, and database access for anomalies and propose solutions to improve availability and performance.
• Continuously evolve and improve Payroll application monitoring, alerting, performance management, and metrics.
• Research, recommend, test, and implement new technologies, tools, and standards to enhance productivity and application quality.
• Stay abreast of Cloud and DevOps industry best practices and tooling.

 

Key Qualifications

• Minimum 8-10 years of relevant experience, including hands-on experience in developing and managing robust and high-availability production systems.
• Extensive knowledge of the Linux operating system (Red Hat preferred).
• Deep experience in architecting, implementing, and managing AWS environments (EC2, SQS, SNS, S3, RDS, ElastiCache, etc.).
• Proficiency with CI/CD build tools and pipelines.
• Experience in supporting highly available database environments.
• Familiarity with open-source technologies such as Git, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Docker, Elasticsearch, and Kafka.
• Must be a champion for a DevOps culture and thrive in a highly collaborative environment.
• Proven ability to manage, complete, and communicate project milestones effectively.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Experience in writing technical documentation.

 

Special Work Conditions    

• Sedentary – Involves sitting most of the time but may involve walking or standing for brief periods of time. Some positions may entail exerting up to 15 lbs. of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force to lift, carry, push, or pull.

Benefits 

Cast & Crew provides a comprehensive package of employee benefits including: Medical, Dental, Vision, PTO, health and wellness programs, employee discounts, and more! Note: Cast & Crew benefits are subject to eligibility requirements.

Cast & Crew is an equal opportunity employer committed to hiring a diverse workforce and sustaining an inclusive culture. It is our policy to provide equal employment opportunities to all individuals based on job-related qualifications and ability to perform a job, without regard to age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, creed, national origin, disability, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship or marital status, and to maintain a non-discriminatory environment free from intimidation, harassment or bias based upon these grounds.

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Compensation is commensurate with various factors including, but not limited to, relevant experience, qualifications, skills, training, licensure, certifications, geographic cost of labor, and other business and organizational needs. Compensation range for candidates in other locations may differ based on the cost of labor in that location. The compensation range for this position is: $100,000.00 - $140,000.00 per year.

Salary : $100,000 - $140,000