Cloud Engineer

Genesis10 is seeking a Lead Associate Principal, Cloud Engineering for a permanent position with a financial services client located in Dallas, TX or Chicago, IL. This is a hybrid opportunity.

This role will perform a range of activities required to both maintain and continuously automate a large, complex cloud-based computing environment. In addition, you will provide technical guidance to the team and, when called upon, serve as a technical liaison between internal departments. This will involve utilizing best practices for the management, architecture, configuration, high availability, disaster recovery, administration, and automation of the enterprise environment with cloud technologies. These activities will drive the creation of new infrastructure and environments, which will be critical to continued growth and adoption of broad cloud/automation goals across the business. The ideal candidate is passionate about new technologies to accomplish complex project initiatives and implement mission critical systems, while keeping current with trends in the Cloud and Infrastructure spaces for areas to improve, with a steady eye towards the extensive regulatory/compliance demands on our company (e.g. CIS, NIST, etc.).

Responsibilities:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each primary duty satisfactorily.

• Reports to the Executive Director of Platform Automation and Cloud Engineering
• Design, configure, implement and manage a fully automated workflow for provisioning and maintaining a complex, highly available cloud environment using infrastructure as code
• Develop and maintain a library of deployable, tested, and documented automation design scripts, processes, and procedures for deploying services to the cloud
• Manage DevOps development activities and complex development tasks that will involve working with tools such as Docker, Kafka and container management systems
• Lead and participate in cloud computing environment build-outs, software installation, maintenance and support, including but not limited to, patches, fixes, end-of-life preparation, and upgrades
• Ensure the reliability of the services your area of responsibility provide and manage to both specific and implied SLAs to help the organization achieve both internal and external quality standard excellence for the cloud platform
• Assess and plan for capacity needs within the cloud platform and forecast accordingly
• Implement and manage initiatives within your assigned area of responsibility with accountability for results and compliance with all controls and security requirements
• Lead in the development of technology roadmaps and end-of-life technology plans
• Effectively communicate project and operational service issues to senior management promptly with observations, decisions, and recommendations for corrective measures
• Manage and participate in the implementation of production changes during defined maintenance windows and support on call rotation
• Maintain appropriate work/personal balance within your team
• Serve as a point of escalation within the team for support issues
• Implement and manage rotational support schedules for afterhours and weekend work for area of responsibility
• Foster an atmosphere of trust, respect, and high performance while displaying strong ethics and integrity
• Manage project and daily work task planning and prioritization and meeting project deadlines while also maintaining a high quality of work
• Institutes corrective actions to address audit and other regulatory or compliance findings
• Operate within budget; Establish and assure adherence to schedules, work plans, and performance requirements
• Write and maintain documentation of relevant systems, procedures and processes
• Other duties as assigned

Supervisory Responsibilities

• Manage a team

Qualifications & Experience
The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary functions.

• Good consultative, communication, team player and analytical skills are a must, as you will be regularly interacting between various teams distributed across the US
• Working knowledge of infrastructure design and components, such as servers, operating systems, networks, and storage
• Experience with architecting, implementing and maintaining highly available mission critical environments for 24/7 availability
• Experience working in an environment with a defined production change control process
• Demonstrates history of working within deadlines and ability to work well under pressure

Technical Skills & Background

• Strong hands-on experience scripting/development skills in Python, Ruby, Go, Java, JavaScript, etc. in a corporate environment
• Hands-on experience with: Terraform, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Kafka, Github, OpenShift, and configuration management tools such as Puppet, Chef, or Ansible
• Relevant experience with configuration and implementation of IaaS, Infrastructure as code, AWS, Azure, etc.
• Kubernetes cluster creation, maintenance, support, admin experience.

Must haves :

• Deep understanding of Kubernetes networking, runtime security, RBAC
• Proficient in AWS Cloud Engineering
• Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform
• Proficiency writing code in GO or Python. GO preferred
• Kubernetes Operator/Controller Development (either via contributions to open-source CNCF projects or written in-house k8s operators)

Preferred skills :

• Rancher/RKE2 Kubernetes flavor
• CKA/CKAD/CKS certifications
• Service mesh/envoy experience
• Multi-tenancy implementations
• CD using GitOps- FluxCD/ArgoCD/Rancher Fleet

Certifications

• AWS Solutions Architect Associate Certification required, higher certification strongly preferred
• Relevant industry certifications such as Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud preferred

Education & Training

• Bachelor's degree, preferably in a technical discipline (Computer Science, Mathematics, etc.), or equivalent combination of education and experience required
• 7+ years experience in IT systems installation, operations, administration, and maintenance of cloud systems / virtualized servers
• Experience working in a financial services or highly regulated environment preferred

Only candidates available and ready to work directly as Genesis10 employees will be considered for this position.
Able to work as a W2 employee of Genesis10 (no corp to corp).

If you have the described qualifications and are interested in this exciting opportunity, apply today!
Genesis10
Ranked a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S. by Staffing Industry Analysts for six consecutive years, Genesis10 puts thousands of consultants and employees to work across the United States every year in contract, contract-for-hire, and permanent placement roles. With more than 300 active clients, Genesis10 provides access to many of the Fortune 100 firms and a variety of mid-market organizations across the full spectrum of industry verticals.

For contract roles, Genesis10 offers the benefits listed below. If this is a perm-placement opportunity, our recruiter can talk you through the unique benefits offered for that particular client.

Benefits of Working with Genesis10:

For multiple years running, Genesis10 has been recognized as a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S., as a Best Company for Work-Life Balance, as a Best Company for Career Growth, for Diversity, and for Leadership, amongst others. To learn more and view all our available career opportunities, please visit us at our website.

Genesis10 is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.