Principal Cloud Engineer

Principal Cloud Engineer

As a Principal Cloud Engineer in the Healthcare IT industry, you will be a member of a platform team that is at the forefront of a Public Cloud transformation. As a member of our Core & Shared Services engineering team, you will develop Cloud solutions and automation to deliver services targeted for the leading application teams transforming our Digital focus. You will be responsible for hands-on automation development on specific cloud platforms, while participating in all phases of the development and maintenance life cycle. 

Primary Roles & Responsibilities:

• Discover and identify the project needs for business requirements along with timeline to develop the same.

• Hands on experience in Automation (Ansible, Terraform, Python). IaC and lead team with industry best practices.

• Perform technical design reviews and code reviews, to include cloud-based architecture and integrations

• Work closely and sometimes lead cross functional teams (application, platform, security, data, operations, infrastructure)

• Creating and reviewing high level product specific architectural design documents and drive architectural best practices on AWS/GCP/Azure.

• Leads multiple or large cloud platform or application adoption projects and facilitates large group JAD sessions for requirements, modelling in several disciplines.

• Constantly review the design to ensure the quality of the design, advocating clarity in terms of developing prototypes and evaluating technologies.

• Ensure established technology standards, code patterns and principles as defined initiatives by the platform services teams and roadmaps. 

• Strong experience in the API and Microservices. architecture

• Production experience in large environments using automation and configuration management tools like Terraform, Ansible and CFT

• Demonstrate maturity and understand of CSPs (AWS, Azure, GCP) and the perspective technology stack

• Be able to articulate multiple cloud environment infrastructure (Compute, Storage, Network, Backups, DR, and Monitoring)

• Performs technical design reviews and code reviews, to include cloud-based architecture and integrations

• Experience with Agile SDLC methodologies and contributes to sprint planning initiatives

• Create and/or help teams to build Cloud infrastructure for on-going and up-coming projects adhering to Infrastructure-as-Code principles

• Identify and document the risks & dependencies with the mitigation plan and delivering architectural blueprint with major modules, their interactions to the team to follow.

• Collaborating with various stakeholders to determine requirements and adhering to the constraints placed by the compliance and audit requirements.

• Interface with vendors for support as well as application and infrastructure teams.

Skill Set:

• Significant experience writing Hashicorp Terraform configurations and modules.

• Experience in DevOps and GitOps models with infra-as-code, config-as-code, policy-as-code, etc.

• Proficient in translating designs into fully developed Terraform, Python codes.

• Strong knowledge of AWS, GCP & Microsoft Azure Cloud, certification preferred.

• Experience in enterprise-scale environments, building highly available IaaS and PaaS solutions

• Understanding of landing zones, cloud-native security, monitoring and logging tools.

• Experience in programming and infra-automation tools – Terraform, Ansible, Java script, python, etc.

• Experience in Cloud logging, monitoring, and observability tools

Added Advantage:

• Hybrid enterprise integration for all CSPs. (AWS, GCP & Azure)

• Experience with containers related technologies and CICD tools – Kubernetes, Jenkins, Docker, openshift, pipelines, container repos, etc. 

• Working knowledge of BitBucket, Ansible, Artifactory, Groovy, RHEL Linux, Networking fundamentals.

• Payment industry security practices knowledge (e.g. PCI DSS , hardening, Security practices)

• Qualifications:

• Requires an BA/BS degree in related field or technical institute training

• 4+ years hands-on experience with AWS (preferred) or other Public Cloud Platforms required (Azure / GCP)

• 5 or more years multi-platform, multi database and/or multi language experience required

• Cloud certification (AWS/GCP/Azure) required

• 3-4 years hands-on experience in Terraform scripting required

• 3-4 years hands-on experience in Ansible scripting preferred

• 5-6 years hands-on experience in Python coding experience preferred

• 3-4 years of experience with Source Code Management and branching usage required

• Strong hold in Authentication & authorization models (IAM) 

• Good knowledge of Landing Zone/ Control Tower and standardizing across CSPs.

• Object oriented Python (Application development)

• Experience in documentation (e.g. Runbooks) for Ops and drive architectural best practices on AWS

• Experience providing troubleshooting support

• Great interpersonal skills, team-work attitude, and drive collaborative initiatives

Certifications Preferred: (First preference to certified candidates)

• CSP solution Architect (AWS/GCP/Azure)

• HashiCorp Cloud - Terraform Associate

• Demonstration of Automation projects or any open-source contribution.

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