Cloud Engineer - Architect

Description

Position Summary:

The Cloud Engineer – Architect will assist in building HBS Cloud Engineering Services department with a focus on architecting customer solutions utilizing the Multi Cloud platform. 

This role is critical to our success in building a Cloud Center of Excellence, enabling customers to migrate to AWS.

Roles and Responsibilities/ Essential Functions:

• Ability to plan and lead migrations from on premises data center to AWS
• Experience in building and operating a Cloud Center of Excellence
• Troubleshoot Enterprise level environments to enable customer to resolve technical issues
• Implement cost optimization strategies on AWS platform
• Ability to discuss, whiteboard, and deliver hybrid cloud solutions
• Participate in departmental, strategic, and budgetary planning processes.
• Continue professional development through attendance at meetings, professional seminars, and conferences.
• Track and report on department performance against established metrics.
• Responsible for managing transaction profitability while maintaining high customer satisfaction rates
• Support strategic sales opportunities and assist with closing opportunities
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• Lead AWS cloud architecture and engineering efforts, including designing scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud environments.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to assess business requirements and translate them into technical cloud solutions.
• Build and maintain infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools such as CloudFormation, Terraform, or CDK.
• Design and implement CI/CD pipelines and automated workflows for cloud-native applications.
• Provide guidance on cloud governance, security best practices, cost optimization, and resource management.
• Support cloud migrations from on-premise or between cloud platforms, ensuring minimal disruption and high availability.
• Troubleshoot issues across cloud environments, ensuring SLAs and performance metrics are met.
• Engage in incident response and root cause analysis across multi-cloud environments.
• Stay current with emerging cloud technologies and recommend innovative solutions to improve service delivery.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams on architecture reviews, design discussions, and strategic planning.
• Provide input and support for cloud services deployed in GCP and Azure, including networking, identity management, and hybrid cloud scenarios.
• Work with teams and clients who operate in mixed-cloud environments, ensuring consistency, interoperability, and adherence to best practices.
• Help evaluate and implement third-party tools that span multiple cloud platforms.
• Minimum of 1,450 hours billed per fiscal year prorated based on start date. These charge hour requirements will be balanced against professional development and on the job training.

Requirements

Competencies:

• Accountability: Accountability looks at the extent to which an individual is willing to accept responsibility. This competency asks the question “How do you look at responsibility for your work?” 
• Accuracy: Accuracy looks at the extent to which an individual’s work is correct and error free within company policies and guidelines. This competency asks the question “How well do you perform your work, and check the quality of the work before passing it along?”
• Coaching and Development: Coaching and development looks at the ability of an individual to provide guidance and feedback to help others strengthen specific knowledge/skill areas needed to accomplish a task or solve a problem. This competency asks the question “How well can you identify and help others to improve their knowledge or skills?”
• Decision Making: Decision making skills look at the ability of the individual to select an effective course of action while controlling resources and expenditures. This competency asks the question “How well do you evaluate information and decide on an appropriate course of action?” 
• Detail Oriented: Detail orientation looks at the ability of the individual to pay meticulous attention to all aspects of a situation or task, no matter how small or seemingly unimportant. This competency asks the question “How well do you understand and work with the ‘nuts and bolts’ of a task?”
• Enthusiastic: Enthusiasm looks at the eagerness or sense of excitement the individual brings to the position. This competency asks the question “How eagerly do you approach new tasks or challenges?”
• Goal Oriented: Goal orientation looks at the ability of the individual to act to ensure that they and others stay focused on the task objective and perform in accordance with clear expectations and goals. This competency asks the question “How focused on results are you?”
• Honesty / Integrity: Honesty and integrity looks at the ability of the individual to act in a fair and just manner, free from deception. This competency asks the question “How truthful and fair are you in your business dealings?
• Innovative: Innovation is the ability to go beyond the conventional, a willingness to try different solutions, and to encourage new ideas from employees and co-workers. This competency asks the question “How willing are you to “work outside the box”?”
• Leadership: Leadership skills looks at how well the individual motivates and guides others to ensure performance in accordance with clear expectations and goals. It involves attracting, supporting, developing, and retaining a talented and diverse workforce. This competency asks the question “How comfortable are you with making decisions and taking a leading role?”
• Managerial Skills: Managerial skills look at the ability of the individual to achieve desired outcomes by setting goals and priorities that deliver results. This competency asks the question “How well can you achieve desired outcomes?”
• Relationship Building: Relationship building looks at the ability of the individual to establish and maintain a good rapport and cooperative relationship with customers and co-workers. This competency asks the question “Can you work effectively with different types of people and build rapport and trust?

Required Experience:

• 5 years of experience in cloud architecture, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering roles
• IaC: Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, AWS CDK
• Cloud Security: AWS IAM, AWS KMS, Security Hub, GuardDuty
• Deep understanding of cloud networking, security, IAM, and enterprise cloud architecture patterns
• Demonstrate ability to perform comprehensive architecture review using AWS’s Well-Architected Framework
• Demonstrate troubleshooting experience of AWS and Hybrid cloud environments

Preferred Experience:

• On prem architecture and environment administration
• Azure, GCP environment experience
• Hybrid Cloud troubleshooting
• Security compliance and policy management 

Required Skills, Education and/ or Certifications:

• AWS Certified Architect
• Computer Science, Mathematics or Technology related degree
• Networking Certification – CCNA / CCNP equivalent

Preferred Skills, Education and/ or Certifications:

• Firewall Certification - PA

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