Cloud Platform Engineer / Architect

Cloud Platform Engineer / Architect Job Description Template

Our company is looking for a Cloud Platform Engineer / Architect to join our team.

Responsibilities:

  • Work as SME in AWS Cloud platform and designing automation to solutions provision and govern access management in cloud;
  • Technically savvy, self-motivated, quick learner;
  • Participating in Proof of Concept on new technology initiatives;
  • Work as SME in AWS Cloud platform and designing solutions on configuration management and platform automation in cloud;
  • Building platform integrating different Big data technologies and AWS cloud services;
  • Drive design reviews, code reviews and apply database design concept to model relational and non-relational data stores;
  • Implement technical controls for cloud security and compliance.

Requirements:

  • Minimum 5 years of strong development and implementation experience across infrastructure and platform solutions in cloud;
  • Good to have knowledge on platform configuration tools like Cloud Formation, AWS Systems Manager, Service Catalog, auto scaling etc;
  • Expertise in platform configuration management methodologies and tools – driving change automation using CHEF, Terraform and/or AWS OpsWorks;
  • Master’s degree, or foreign degree equivalent, in STEM major (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) with 4 years of related experience;
  • Minimum 4 years of experience in developing building, managing, and versioning infrastructure as a code solutions;
  • Experience with DevOps tools like Jenkins, GitHub, Maven etc;
  • Hands-on coding experience in most of the above mentioned technologies is required;
  • Programming knowledge and experience in Python is mandatory;
  • Experience on platform security and auditing processes is added advantage;
  • Proficiency in data analytics models & designs and ability to work with data engineers on the data ingestion and modeling required in the product;
  • Working experience required in setting up infrastructure services in the cloud like EC2, Fargate, VPC, API Gateway, ELB, docker etc.