Cloud Platform Engineer

Cloud Platform Engineer Remote/ Multi Year contract position The Cloud Platform Engineer performs a critical role delivering the core capabilities and features of a strategic cloud platform. This position will be responsible for the delivery of platform enablers including the design, build, security, and operationalization of reusable cloud platform components in support of Financial Services users and stakeholders. The Cloud Platform Engineer role will also encompass developing, building, administering, and deploying self-service tools that enable Application Delivery Teams within Client Financial Services to build, deploy, and operate applications on the cloud platform. They are expected to maintain a deep technical knowledge of the AWS ecosystem and the capabilities and tools required to create platform patterns and technical best-practices with the goal of increasing adoption, operational efficiency, and realized business value. They will help drive decisions on the correct usage of cloud resources, troubleshoot performance issues, and ensure the highest level of reliability for the platform by tuning the environment for maximum scalability, cost efficiency, and security. This position does not have direct reports. Principle Duties and Responsibilities: Platform Lifecycle o Drive design, engineering, implementation, and configuration of platform services to support overall enterprise patterns and re-enforcing best practices. o Develop patterns for common platform needs (e.g. logging, monitoring, alerting, backup, encryption, tooling, etc.) across all layers of the platform and supporting services. o Works with business and technology partners to identify, define, interpret, and clarify scope of the data management platform integerations. o Partner with Information Security representatives to develop, implement and/or execute security configurations and controls. o Apply and integrate emerging technology trends to new and existing platform enablers. o Support and refine the utilization strategy for the platform and enhance its overall architecture, security, performance, and financial aspects. o Contribute to platform, product, and architectural roadmaps. o Design Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment pipelines to enable code releases o Enable continuous monitoring to resolve issues o Utilize platform metrics to automate scale and resilient recovery o Ensuring the platform is built, deployed, configured, managed, and monitored correctly to support the business Platform Administration o Performs development of common platform components and advanced configuration activities in the cloud platform. o Creates integrations between the cloud platform and other FRS enterprise services and 3rd party tools. o Manages the core security model configurations in accordance with information security. o Develop comprehensive monitoring solutions to provide full visibility to the different platform components o Automate design patterns as Infrastructure-as -Code (IaC) and implement and test the automation o Ability to build, test and deploy Docker images Operational Excellence o Provide support for deployed products and services by being a trusted advisor to product delivery teams helping identify cloud problems and guiding issue resolution. o Develops and maintains automation for deployments to reduce manual processes and improve efficiencies across cloud environments. o Leads solution design discussions, develops work effort estimates for implementation and presents solutions. o Drafts and maintains solution documentation for platform components, integrations, and common use patterns to meet all architectural, security and operational requirements as defined by the larger Client System. o Participate in code reviews by receiving and providing feedback on code produced o Perform well given a high level of independence and autonomy and will establish a cadence of on-time delivery with high-quality work. Qualifications: This hands-on Platform Engineer - Cloud will require a wide variety of capabilities and strengths which include: Bachelor's degree or equivalent work-related experience 4-5 years of Cloud Engineering experience (AWS Preferred) Experience building and delivering highly available platform solutions, all while ensuring a high level of quality leveraging Terraform Experience integrating platform with 3rd party solutions (e.g. from cloud to on-prem and vice-versa, etc.) Experience with engineering solutions across a heterogeneous landscape of on-prem datacenters, cloud and SaaS environments Experience and solid understanding of complex, multi-region, highly available state-less and state-full deployments Experience with AWS Landing Zone and/or AWS Control Tower Demonstrable experience with scripting & programming languages (e.g. Python, Ruby, Bash, PowerShell, Ansible, JavaScript, JSON, YAML, etc.) Demonstrable experience with cloud automation tooling and Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, CDK, etc.) Terraform preferred Demonstrable experience using and configuring Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery tools (e.g GitLab, Jenkins, Concourse) Experience building infrastructure solutions leveraging containers/ container orchestration, including tools such as Kubernetes, Docker, Lambda, and serverless deployments Advanced experience with AWS load balancers, S3, CloudFront, etc. Working knowledge of configuration management tools and techniques e.g including Ansible, Chef, Puppet, SaltStack Working knowledge of application, data, and infrastructure architecture discipline Experience with Secret Management (AWS Secrets Manager, HashiCorp Vault) Solid understanding of Cloud Security (OAuth, OIDC) Strong knowledge and understanding of microservice based architectures, APIs, etc. Experience in a multi-account AWS environment is a plus Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery models including Blue/Green and Canary release models is a plus Experience with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) highly preferred, however experience leveraging other Agile Methodologies will still be considered. Proven ability to manage one's time and prioritize work based on risk and critical need Excellent interpersonal, attention to detail, and oral and written communication skills. Proven, hands on, full stack application development experience Currently holds a certification that demonstrates technical knowledge with Amazon Web Services (AWS) (e.g. AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified SysOps Administrator or comparable) is preferred