Cloud Automation Engineer

Job#: 2058686

Job Description:

Job Title: Cloud Automation Engineer Job Description

Responsibilities:

Our client is seeking a lead cloud automation engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position will be working 100% remote and will focus on automation in support of the cloud infrastructure team. A candidate in this position will work as part of an enterprise cloud services team and will assist in the automation of cloud infrastructure, ensuring efficient, reliable, and scalable operations. The candidate will be part of a team of automation engineers implementing automation tools and processes. This role will develop and implement the automation needs for the cloud infrastructure team.

The candidate responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Develop and deploy comprehensive cloud automation strategy to meet the cloud team's automation requirements

Identify automation tools and best practices and support the adoption of the tools and practices across the cloud team

Analyze existing cloud processes and identify areas where automation can be implemented to optimize cloud processes

Support the automation needs of the cross-functional cloud infrastructure team

Identify and implement cloud strategies to increase self-service infrastructure deployments using cloud native services

Manage cloud infrastructure and ensure availability, scalability, and security through automation

Monitor and optimize the performance of cloud services and resources through automation

Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform, CDK, and CloudFormation in support of streamlined deployment and management of cloud infrastructure

Automate cloud infrastructure team reporting on service usage, cost, etc.

Support the development governance documentation and standard operation procedures for automated processes and tools.

Basic Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree and 12 years of relevant experience preferred

Five (5) years of experience preferred in cloud technologies including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or other public cloud services with an emphasis on AWS experience

Three (3) years of experience writing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform, CDK, and CloudFormation preferred

Three (3) years of experience in Python, or similar cloud scripting language, and AWS SDK (e.g. Boto3) preferred

Experience using Python, or similar scripting, with Boto3, or similar SDKs, to implement automation, reporting, service interrogation in a multi-account environment

One (1) cloud certification preferred at the associate level or higher in AWS preferred

Experience with automating self-service deployments using AWS cloud services (e.g. AWS Service Catalog or other similar services)

Experience analyzing existing processes then identifying opportunities for automation

Experience with automation reporting on cloud infrastructure services

Experience with automation in an AWS multi-account organization

Candidate must hold or be able to obtain Public Trust


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