What are the responsibilities and job description for the Cloud Engineer position at Allied Consultants (Texas)?
Overview
Allied Consultants, Inc. is an Austin-based firm which has for 33 years been a premier provider of technical and business professionals to clients in Texas. We are currently seeking an experienced Cloud Engineer to be a key resource on a technical services team.
Allied Consultants offers its family of consultants excellent rates, a local support staff, and an attractive benefits package which includes medical insurance (Allied shares a percentage of the cost), life insurance, a matching 401(k) plan and a cafeteria plan.Candidates selected for interview will be required to undergo criminal background checks and may be required to complete a drug screen in accordance with Federal and State Law. Offers of Employment are contingent on a successful background checkAllied Consultants is an equal opportunities employer.
Responsibilities
Understands business objectives and problems, identifies alternative solutions, performs studies and cost / benefit analysis of alternatives. Analyzes user requirements, procedures, and problems to automate processing or to improve existing computer system : Confers with personnel of organizational units involved to analyze current operational procedures, identify problems, and learn specific input and output requirements, such as forms of data input, how data is to be; summarized, and formats for reports. Writes detailed description of user needs, program functions, and steps required to develop or modify computer program. Reviews computer system capabilities, specifications, and scheduling limitations to determine if requested program or program change is possible within existing system.
We are seeking a candidate with extensive experience in implementing highly available, fault tolerant cloud systems, and who have experience with monitoring tools, containerization and implementing CI / CD pipelines.
The job will require the candidate to be on site one day a week, but this may increase in the future.
We prefer candidates with an active Linked In profile.
Qualifications
Minimum Requirements : Candidates that do not meet or exceed the minimum stated requirements (skills / experience) will be displayed to customers but may not be chosen for this opportunity.
Years
Required / Preferred
Experience
Required
Experience in cloud engineering with at least 5 years focused on core AWS services
Preferred
Experience automating deployments using CI / CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ansible and similar tools
Preferred
Experience with serverless architecture
Preferred
Designing and implementing high availability and fault tolerant systems
Preferred
Experience with monitoring tools, including CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, and Splunk
Preferred
Experience in containerization, proficient with ECS, EKS, and / or Fargate
Preferred
Strong skills in Python, Bash, or other scripting / programming languages
Preferred
Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills
Preferred
AWS certifications strongly preferred
Preferred
Ability to be adaptable and succeed in an environment where you may be given tasks that have clear goals but require you to find answers, understand the situation, and determine the steps and process to complete.
