Senior AWS Cloud Engineer (FinOps)- St. Paul, MN

job summary:

W2 only- no C2C/ no C2H, no sponsorship/ no visa candidates

This is a contract to hire position, LOCAL CANDIDATES ONLY!! Expected to come on-site 3 days per week.

location: Saint Paul, Minnesota

job type: Contract

salary: $60 - 70 per hour

work hours: 8am to 5pm

education: Bachelors



responsibilities:

Position Summary:

Seeking an AWS Senior Cloud Engineer to join the Enterprise Cloud and Development Platform team with a focus on FinOps engineering as well as supporting other capabilities for our internal engineering and app development-oriented customers. This role is part of the Enterprise Cloud and Development Platforms organization within the Enterprise Technology division. We provide offerings including: FinOps, application hosting, deployment, and observability, CI/CD pipelines, API management, local desktop development, and Securian's AWS cloud. Our mission includes:

• Leveraging a customer-centric mindset towards providing high-quality offerings for engineers and developers throughout the enterprise
• Creating dynamic and scalable solutions through automation, infrastructure as code, and self-service capabilities
• Ensuring our solutions are designed, engineered, and operate safely, securely, and effectively
• Providing education, consulting, and collaborative engagement with other teams throughout Enterprise Technology
• Promoting practices and behaviors around engineering excellence, FinOps, DevOps, automation/infrastructure as code, optimization, and modernization
• Building and establishing TCO (Total Cost of ownership to increase visibility into the interconnectedness between applications and infrastructure via engineered solution(s).

Qualifications:

• Experience with AWS cloud services (preferably 4 years ), practical cloud deployment experience in AWS Cloud services including EKS, EC2, and/or experimentation with some AI/ML services
• Experience leveraging infrastructure as code to create and manage solutions in AWS, including Python, CloudFormation, Terraform, etc.

• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively as part of a team, adapt to changes in priorities according to business needs, and prioritize tasks to meet deadlines.

• Familiarity with Cloud service pricing models, cost and usage estimates and forecast modeling using AWS

• FinOps Engineering or Software Engineering experience with significant cost optimization projects

• Willingness to learn other platforms and tooling capabilities to provide information to application owners on financial and architectural cloud optimization opportunities, as well as monitoring and observability best practices
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with attention to detail and accuracy and comfort with a wide variety of personas (technology associates, business representatives, finance partners, engineers, data scientists, leadership etc.)

The Cloud Engineer will be part of the team responsible for client's FinOps engineering, application hosting, observability, and API management technologies and services. You will help design, engineer, improve, and maintain these capabilities in alignment with our enterprise goals and plans, operating safely, securely, and effectively through automation, self-service, and optimization. Cloud Engineers also provide consulting and education on our capabilities for engineers, developers, architects, and leaders throughout Enterprise Technology as well as our Governance, Risk, and Compliance teams.

One of our most recently developed capabilities FinOps, was established as part of Securian's Cloud Program to enhance the business value derived from client's cloud infrastructure. While our Cloud migration is largely complete, the next phase focuses on empowering teams to make well-informed decisions regarding cloud expenditure. This involves establishing KPIs and cloud usage goals aligned with optimization and resilience in collaboration with business functions and goals.

The FinOps capability plays a crucial role in guiding and ensuring financial accountability for client's cloud environments. This capability and this position will provide scalable solutions that enable applications to optimize cloud performance. This ensures decision-making is informed by the expertise of the Enterprise Cloud and Development Platform team, with implementation carried out by our engineers and software development teams.

qualifications:

Must Haves.

• Finops - TCO (Total Cost Optimization) experience
• Devops engineering background
• IaC - cloudformation, terraform. (should have one of those 2).
• Coding language experience would be beneficial.
• cloud experience (AWS). Coming into AWS environment.
• observability experience
• api support experience

*Open to other domain experience outside of Financial Services.

skills:

• looking for someone who can first start to help develop further in journey on finops engineering. done great job over past 4-5year years migrating things to the cloud and help people understand cloud usage from finance perspective. still providing that level of support.
• use cloud ability and account owner can jump in to set up alerts. Account owners are not engineers. not making decision on types of cloud services they're using, instance type they're using for compute, etc.
• focus shifting towards engineers as primary customer.

Soft skills:

• Ability to lead conversation with internal dev teams, schedule meetings and talk to them.
• lack ability to work in corporate environment - communicate effectively with customers, understand business requirements, little understanding of what project manager stuff looks like. Would like to see them having been apart of a project
• give some level of presentation, even if its to the team.

Key focus:

• trying to build in strict guard rails for specific uses in AWS or some sort of pipeline notification when deploying.
• trying to build on TCO. didn't have that in data center days. Starting to try to build out what is the cost for the business for the applications. starting give people an understanding based on the business value.
• teams aslo provides api platform support, observability support. Current architecture is on EC2 app posting.

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Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Randstad Digital offers a comprehensive benefits package, including health, an incentive and recognition program, and 401K contribution (all benefits are based on eligibility).

This posting is open for thirty (30) days.

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