Title: Senior Cloud Platform Engineer
Job Type: Contract
Work Model: Hybrid (3 days per week in the office, 2 days remote)
Daily rate: 400 - 550
Description:
Cloud Platforms Automation Engineer (Terraform), Cloud Platforms & Product Engineering, Enterprise Cloud Platforms
About the company:
Global Technology delivers technology services globally across the bank’s eight lines of business that serve individuals, companies and institutions. The team also focuses on digital banking, payments, infrastructure, data management and technology that enhances cyber security, and risk and capital management. Innovation is at the heart of all Global Technology does.
Enterprise Cloud Platforms Team:
Enterprise Cloud Platforms team in the CTO organization offers Private and Public Cloud platforms for the companies developers to drive faster time-to-market, innovation with private and public cloud capabilities, and reduce complexity with bult-in integrations. We believe in high quality engineering culture to engineer our platforms with customer and platform mindset, design for large enterprise scale and resilience, and accelerate market innovation into the technical platforms we deliver.
As part of this team, you will have a large impact on the evolution of next generation Cloud services for the bank and explore an extensive list of new technologies that will drive innovation across our company.
This individual in Terraform Infrastructure Engineer role is responsible for tool and service designs within a technical domain that enable business strategies in accordance with architectural governance, standards, and policies. They are the primary contributor to the creation of infrastructure tools and their integration as an infrastructure service. The role facilitates deployment of technical solution by developing templates, playbooks and automation used during implementation. They consistently look for opportunities to improve the reliability and efficiency when implementing and maintaining infrastructure tools and/or services. This individual embraces a culture that drives innovation and continuous improvement.
Position Summary:
• Write public cloud infrastructure as code automation using tools such as Terraform
• Design and develop public cloud landing zones automation to build core cloud foundational platform services
• Develop cloud services provisioning automation with integrated capabilities of IAM, network, security policies as code, and observability
• Implement built-in resiliency, observability, and enable FinOps as a part of infrastructure automation to enable cloud IaaS and PaaS services
• Develop and maintain cloud services catalog for app developers and devops teams
• Develop CI/CD pipelines to build the cloud platform, virtual machine images and containers
• Collaborate with technical product management and operations, to deliver the engineering roadmap in Agile model
• Partner with Information Security teams to engineer secure app patterns into Cloud platforms
• Assist in translating business requirements into technical definitions, reference models, blueprints, and playbooks for deployment in compliance with architecture standards and policies
• Assist technical Analysts and Infrastructure Engineers by ensuring that technology solutions comply with enterprise system design and engineering standards.
• Promote an inclusive and healthy working environment and help to resolve organizational impediments/blockers
Required Skills:
• Significant experience writing Hashicorp Terraform configurations and modules.
• Experience in DevOps and GitOps models with infra-as-code, config-as-code, policy-as-code, etc.
• Proficient in translating designs into fully developed Terraform code.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Azure Cloud, certification preferred. AWS and GCP desirable.
• Solid understanding of cloud networking concepts, subnets, routing, load balancing, firewalls, and cloud security.
• Experience in enterprise-scale environments, building highly available IaaS and PaaS solutions
• Understanding of landing zones, cloud-native security, monitoring and logging tools, and Well-Architected Framework principals.
• Experience with containers related technologies and CICD tools – Jenkins, pipelines, container repos, etc.
• Experience in programming and infra-automation tools – Terraform, Ansible, Java, python, etc.
• Experience in Cloud logging, monitoring, and observability tools
• Proficient in at least one scripting language (i.e. Bash, Python).
• Strong analytical, problem solving and organizational skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent collaboration skills and ability to work in a global team
• Minimum of a 4-year degree in Computer Science or a related discipline
• Minimum 3+ years of Cloud Automation Engineer working experience
Desired Skills:
§ Experience in financial services industry
§ Experience on technology and infrastructure teams
§ Experience in Linux/UNIX system administration
§ Experience with Container technologies (Kubernetes, Openshift, Docker)
