What are the responsibilities and job description for the Principal, Cloud Engineer position at Request Technology, LLC?
Job Details
Principal, Cloud Engineer
Salary: Open Bonus
Location: Chicago, IL or Dallas, TX
Hybrid: 3 days onsite, 2 days remote
Qualifications
- Bachelor s degree
- 10 years experience in IT systems installation, operations, administration, and maintenance of cloud systems / virtualized servers
- Working knowledge of infrastructure design and components, such as: servers, operating systems, networks, and storage
- Experience with architecting, implementing and maintaining highly available mission critical environments for 24/7 availability
- Strong hands-on experience scripting/development skills in Python, Ruby, Go, Java, JavaScript, etc. in a corporate environment
- Hands-on experience with: Terraform, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Kafka, GitHub, OpenShift, and configuration management tools such as Puppet, Chef, or Ansible
- Relevant experience with configuration and implementation of IaaS, Infrastructure as code, AWS, Azure, etc.
Responsibilities
- Reports to the Executive Director of Platform Automation and Cloud Engineering
- Design, configure, implement and manage a fully automated workflow for provisioning and maintaining a complex, highly available cloud environment using infrastructure as code
- Develop and maintain a library of deployable, tested, and documented automation design scripts, processes, and procedures for deploying services to the cloud
- Manage DevOps development activities and complex development tasks that will involve working with tools such as Docker, Kafka and container management systems
- Lead and participate in cloud computing environment buildouts, software installation, maintenance and support, including but not limited to, patches, fixes, end-of-life preparation, and upgrades
- Ensure the reliability of the services your area of responsibility provide and manage both specific and implied SLAs to help the organization achieve both internal and external quality standard excellence for the cloud platform
- Assess and plan for capacity needs within the cloud platform and forecast accordingly
- Implement and manage initiatives within your assigned area of responsibility with accountability for results and compliance with all controls and security requirements
- Lead in the development of technology roadmaps and end-of-life technology plans
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