Cloud Ops Engineer

The AWS Cloud Engineer will analyze, design, and architect cloud-based solutions to address our clients' needs for software-as-a-service offering. We are looking for sharp, disciplined, and self-motivated individuals with a passion for utilizing cloud solutions from AWS Cloud Platform.

Location

Billings, Montana | Lakewood, Colorado | Lubbock, Texas

Travel

0-5%

Responsibilities

• Design and develop infrastructure solutions to support business functions, processes, and applications
• Maintain and build infrastructure to standards, performing updates and upgrades to environments, tools and scripts
• Monitor and manage operational tasks in the SaaS environment
• Monitor and acknowledge alerts and provide root cause analysis
• Participate in periodic on-call duties
• Develop, evaluate, and make recommendations for alternative infrastructure solutions.
• Support the selection of methodologies, frameworks, tools, and components of infrastructure solutions, and lead multifunctional teams in successful application of those methodologies and tools.
• Design and ensure the validity of the architectural solutions
• Monitoring tools such as CloudWatch, SolarWinds, etc.
• Understanding of CDN methodologies and implementation. IE: Load Balancing and CloudFront
• Be involved in the planning, implementation, and growth of the cloud infrastructure.
• Partner with product architects and dev team to design, recommend and implement scalable services.
• Stay current with new technology options and vendor products.
• Understanding of writing Infrastructure as a code service IE: CloudFormation and/or terraform.

Qualifications

• BS/BA in related field or equivalent experience
• A strong business orientation
• Experience in the software industry deploying software products
• Administer AWS infrastructure including Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), SC, Identity Access Management (IAM), Elastic Block Store (EBS), Security Groups, Auto Scaling, and Relational Database Service (RDS)
• Establish federated identity solutions between on-premises and commercial clouds
• Develop and maintain standards for operations of core AWS components
• Provide analytics to leadership related to costs/capacity/administration ability to evaluate options, analyze complex problems, present possible solutions in a simple, easily understood manner.
• Excellent time management and prioritization skills
• Must be able to make or recommend quick decisions
• Must be able to absorb new technologies and implement them quickly and thoroughly
• Ability to work well with a cross-functional, geographically dispersed team and customer base
• Strong verbal and written communications skills and ability to lead effectively across organizations
• Must be able to prioritize large lists of tasks effectively
• Maintains, monitors and analyzes performance of system components

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