Cloud Engineer - Fulltime

Title: Cloud Engineer

Location: Richfield, MN

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: $Market

Requirements

Key position responsibilities include:

Integration Platforms – Event Streaming and Messaging

• Build integration and cloud solutions from scratch using leading open source technologies
• Manage and maintain existing use cases leveraging integration platforms
• Participate in the design of solutions leveraging integration platforms
• Provide consulting for app teams that require guidance on integration services and consumption
• Define, provision and document proper security controls for integration platforms
• Ensure that integration platforms are secured by monitoring security vulnerabilities and remediating
• Provide operational support for use cases leveraging integration services in private and public clouds
• Participate in a rotating on call schedule

Automation

• Automate and provision integration services in private and public clouds leveraged
  
• Automate the installation, configuration operation and monitoring of integration systems using a wide variety of open source tools
  
• Build, scale and secure integration platforms focused specifically on a fully automated Linux environment
  
• Develop scripts leveraging scripting technologies such as Chef, Ansible and cloud native API’s
  
• Perform zero downtime deployments and configuration changes across multiple globally distributed origins

Hybrid cloud

• Engineer integration platforms that are hosted in private and public clouds

• Maintain a high level of operational readiness through highly available and redundant designs

• Leverage telemetry tooling to ensure integration platforms are resilient, reliable and stable

• Collaborate, communicate and work across various geographies and time zones

Basic Qualifications:

• 5 or more years of experience in Linux systems engineering and administration

• 2 or more years of experience using automation and configuration management tools such as Chef, Ansible and Puppet

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or advanced degree in IT, Computer Science or related field

• Experience with event streaming technologies such as Apache Kafka, Confluent Kafka or Google Cloud Pub/Sub

• Experience with messaging technologies such as RabbitMQ or IBM MQ

• Experience in at least one scripting language such as JavaScript, Linux\Unix shell scripting and Python

• Experience with Elasticsearch, Logstash, Filebeat, Metricbeat and monitoring tools like Kibana, Grafana and Splunk

• Experience with public and hybrid cloud infrastructure, preferably Azure, GCP and AWS

• Clear understanding of cloud services provided by major vendors and experience integrating private and public clouds

• Experience utilizing industry standard technologies and methods to ensure integrity and recoverability of platforms

• Familiarity with Agile systems management processes and standards

• Conceptual understanding of Agile and DevOps culture

• Experience leveraging development pipelines, DevOps philosophies and working with infrastructure-as-code

• Experience working in a cross functional team in an enterprise IT environment

• Experience collaborating and communicating across IT teams, departments and with internal and external customers

• Excellent communication and people skills

Benefits

Note: If interested please send your updated resume to [email protected] and include your salary requirement along with your contact details with a suitable time when we can reach you. If you know of anyone in your sphere of contacts, who would be a perfect match for this job then, we would appreciate if you can forward this posting to them with a copy to us.

We look forward to hearing from you at the earliest!