Senior Cloud Operations Engineer

Job Description:

Senior Cloud Operations Engineer Summary:

Signature Consultants is seeking a Senior Cloud Operations Engineer for an opportunity in St. Louis, MO. The Cloud Operations Engineer will build and maintain secure, resilient, highly-available, scalable and performant IT infrastructure in public cloud environments. This role provides administration for cloud deployments and assures those environments are appropriately configured and maintained. The engineer will collaborate with application development teams during build, test, and release activity.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and deploy secure and compliant infrastructure systems in public cloud environments.
• Work with partner IT organizations to develop, document, and implement solutions in a consistent, repeatable manner
• Work closely with developers in application troubleshooting, design, and continuous integration from an operational perspective.
• Proactively maintain a broad knowledge of cloud engineering trends and technology advancements
• Respond to Service Requests and Incidents. Plan and implement Change Requests.
• Develop and maintain detailed, shared technical process and procedure documentation

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent related work experience
• 7+ years’ experience performing relevant IT roles
• 2+ years of hands-on experience with application deployment, setup and configuration on Amazon Web Services
• Advanced knowledge and experience with designing, implementing, and diagnosing services hosted with public cloud based providers (Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)
• Solid knowledge of AWS services, including: CloudWatch, IAM, CloudTrail, Lambda, EC2, ECS, VPC, EBS, ELB, KMS, Config, SNS, SQS, SES, SWF, S3, Glacier, and tagging
• Experience with infrastructure automation and continuous delivery tool chains (e.g. Terraform, Jenkins, Ansible, AWS Cloud Formation, Consul, Vault)
• Experience with Docker containerization and orchestration frameworks
• Experience supporting multi-tier web application architectures
• Advanced troubleshooting skills and problem solving skills
• Excellent written and verbal communications
• Proficient with administration and troubleshooting of complex infrastructure, applications, and middleware.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with application development teams.
• Experience in agile methodologies
• Some experience in application development for cloud platforms using technologies like Grails, Angular frameworks, Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, Spring, Micro Services , REST, NodeJS and others
• Senior level (8-10+ year) Linux Engineer with significant AWS/Cloud experience
• At least 3 years AWS, the more experience the better
• 8-10 yrs Linux
• Terraform (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraform_(software))
• Familiarity/baseline experience with Jenkins- deployment pipelines with Docker
• Ansible preferred
• Ability to interact and communicate with development teams extremely important

About Signature Consultants, LLC

Headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Signature Consultants was established in 1997 with a singular focus: to provide clients and consultants with superior staffing solutions. For the eighth consecutive year, Signature was voted as one of the “Best Staffing Firms to Work For” and is now the 15th largest IT staffing firm in the United States (source: Staffing Industry Analysts). With 26 locations throughout North America, Signature annually deploys thousands of consultants to support, run, and manage their clients’ technology needs. Signature offers IT staffing, consulting, managed solutions, and direct placement services. For more information on the company, please visit www.sigconsult.com.