Cloud Engineer

Location: Hybrid - Vienna, VA

We will only accept the following: US Citizens, Green Card Holders, TN Visa, Green Card EAD's.

Description:

Responsibilities

- Provide subject matter expertise in distributed and cloud technologies.

- Ensure appropriate thought and considerations are applied to sizing and performance metrics of the new cloud banking core

- Instrumental in driving Cloud based models such as PaaS and SaaS based applications preferably on Oracle cloud and/or Azure.

- Experience in SaaS platform administration and configuration to include best practices around security methods

- Resource availability as needed for on-call support on production operations

- Cloud Administration experience within SaaS and PaaS layer

- Implement and maintain security best practices to protect cloud data, identities in compliance with PCI standards.

- Experienced in Monitoring system performance, analyze metrics, and scale resources as needed

- Design, develop, test, and deploy Application Integrations within Cloud SaaS/PaaS layers

- Develop APIs, interfaces, and web services to enable application integration

- Develop automation scripts and tools to streamline cloud provisioning, monitoring, and management tasks

- Implement infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like Terraform and Resource Manager

- Work closely with cross-functional teams, including infrastructure, application development, and testing teams

Qualifications

• BS degree in Computer Science, Information Systems preferred or equivalent experience.

• Minimum 10 years of combined experience in development of distributed on-prem, migrated on-prem to cloud and green field cloud-based systems

• Proven experience delivering external SaaS based products such as Oracle Banking and/or Zafin.

• Instrumental in driving Cloud based models such as PaaS and SaaS based applications preferably on Oracle cloud and/or Azure.

• Strong technology background covering Core banking systems as well as industry knowledge of best practices in cloud PaaS/SaaS/IaaS offerings

• Proven experience supporting modernization efforts for high volume financial core systems

• Life Cycle experience in migrating on-prem assets to cloud.

• Excellent project and program management skills, oral, and written communications.

• Knowledge of change and release management processes.

• Experience working in client-focused service delivery environments.

• Proven ability to develop and manage contracts, budgets, and schedules

• Able to effectively manage and mentor team members

• Must have excellent written and oral communication skills

Desired Qualifications

• Experience in Cloud Core Banking products

• Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud and/or AWS Solution Architect certification(s)

• Familiarity with banking and financial industry standards and practices

• Technical certifications in SAFe/Scaled Agile and/or other technologies a plus