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Global Atlantic · 2 hours ago

Senior Cloud Engineer

Des Moines, Iowa, United States

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

5+ years exp

Global Atlantic is a leading provider of retirement security and investment solutions. They are seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to operate AWS cloud, assist in DevOps activities, and manage a self-service cloud platform while delivering scalable and secure cloud infrastructure.

Financial ServicesInsuranceLife InsuranceRetirement

Comp. & Benefits

Responsibilities

Centralized cloud engineering and operational team member focused on operating AWS cloud, assisting teams in DevOps activities, and management of a self-service cloud platform

Deliver cloud services and/or infrastructure in alignment with target architecture

Design, deploy, and manage scalable, reliable, and secure cloud infrastructure on AWS

Accountable for operational monitoring, management, incident escalation, and reporting functions

Serve as technical project manager for various projects

Optimize performance and capacity and ensure proper resource management regardless of the platform used or infrastructure location

Implement best practices for high availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery using AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, Auto Scaling and VPC

Manage cloud networking including VPCs, Security Groups, Route 53, Route Tables, Transit Gateways

Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform

Set-up and manage GitLab/GitHub repositories, CI/CD pipelines, and version control best practices

Automate software development process using GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions and AWS Code Pipeline

Troubleshoot and optimize workflows for containerized applications (Docker, ECS)

Deploy, scale, and manage containerized workloads using Docker, ECS with EC2

Manage and configure JFrog artifactory for artifact storage, retrieval and versioning. Automate artifact publishing and retrieval in CI/CD pipelines

Configure, manage and optimize Druva backup solutions for AWS workloads

Develop and maintain automation scripts using Python, Bash, and Powershell to streamline cloud operations and deployments

Partner with Information Security Risk Management and Security Operations on the building and maintenance of cloud workloads to ensure initial and on-going compliance with security guidance and best practices

Oversee patching and vulnerability remediation activities as part of Vulnerability Remediation as a Service (VRaaS) function and ensure performance of same

Perform cost planning, monitoring, management, and reporting to maintain transparency and proper metering

Manage and maintain shared infrastructure and DevOps tooling, such as GitLab, AWS CodePipeline, Saltstack, Artifactory, Sonarqube, New Relic, and CloudHealth

Provide DevOps expertise and coaching related to deploying and configuring IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) resources

Lend DevOps capacity to projects and other initiatives across the IT landscape

Participate in the selection of, manage and partner with cloud vendors for the purpose of providing redundancy and cloud operations capacity

Aid the Cloud Architect in assessing projects for approval and implementation based on predefined architecture standards

Create, manage, and prioritize a backlog of work, including requests for assistance, remediation work, and operational tasks

Meet service level agreements made to business teams and ensure proper disaster recovery processes and risk mitigation

Work across traditional technology infrastructure and cloud computing environments

Qualification

AWSTerraformDevSecOpsContainerizationPythonPowershellGitLabArtifactoryCollaborationProject Management

Required

Bachelor's degree (U.S. or foreign equivalent) in Applied Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related computational and analytical field, plus five (5) years of experience in an IT related role

Prior experience must include 3 years with the following:

Working in cloud technologies from Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure

Working in software-defined infrastructure, leveraging infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform

Cloud engineering, DevSecOps practices, and cloud integration

Cloud deployment configurations, containerization, and scripting technologies

Design, deploy and manage software-defined infrastructure to enhance scalability, automation and operational efficiency in cloud environments

Implement and manage scalable cloud deployment configurations, leveraging containerization technologies and automation through scripting using Powershell, Python etc., to ensure seamless application delivery and infrastructure management

Manage and maintain shared infrastructure and DevOps tooling, such as GitLab and Artifactory

Actively collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, implement, and optimize cloud solutions that align with organizational goals