Cloud Platform Engineer

Role : : Cloud Platform Engineer

Location :: 4 days onsite: St. Louis, MO

Duration :  Long Term

Job Description ::

Need a great Cloud Platform Engineer who is an expert in Kubernetes, Terraform and AWS.

Overview

Looking for a motivated Cloud Platform Engineer with expertise in cloud-based infrastructure, Infrastructure as Code, and full-stack development. The role involves designing new infrastructure solutions and enhancing existing ones, leveraging experience to help set technology direction. The ideal candidate will have strong analytical and problem-solving skills, as well as the ability to understand broader strategic goals, to guide the creation and maintenance of innovative, reusable enterprise technology solutions. 

Responsibilities

• Design complex full-stack cloud technology solutions in collaboration with application development teams, aligned with the vision established by technology and product leaders.
• Take ownership of existing technology solutions, designing and recommending improvements to increase efficiency, resiliency, and reduce manual effort
• Develop and lead the peer review process for Infrastructure as Code (IaC). IaC tools include Terraform, PowerShell, bash and Python.
• Lead the implementation of additional tools and processes that maintain an automation-first approach to infrastructure and middleware management.
• Collaborate with teams to understand their current infrastructure state and assist them in achieving the next step forward.
• Help create roadmaps to sunset, replace, and decommission legacy implementations as new capabilities are introduced.
• Act as a subject matter expert for infrastructure operations in cloud; act as an escalation point for application development teams.

 Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant experience, encompassing:
• Building and scaling highly available cloud architecture while maintaining high-quality codebases
• Utilizing system monitoring and automated self-healing.
• In-depth knowledge of Terraform, Python, shell scripting, and other automation tools.
• Full stack application development experience, including CI/CD pipeline development, automated builds, testing, and Infrastructure as Code. GitLab experience preferred.
• Developing and maintaining infrastructure solutions in Amazon Web Services (AWS), including tools such as Kubernetes, Docker, Lambda, and serverless deployments
• Applying Agile methodologies and DevSecOps practices in planning and organizing work
• Monitoring platform/application using tools such as Dynatrace, Grafana, CloudWatch is preferred.

Thanks

Abdul