Cloud Software Engineer

Responsibilities

The Cloud Software Engineer Staff will be working with our engineering team to develop, implement, optimize, and maintain the most optimal cloud-based solutions for the company. Responsible for deploying and debugging cloud stacks, educating teams on new cloud initiatives, and ensuring the security of the cloud infrastructure.

What you will be doing:

• Collaborating with engineering and development teams to evaluate and identify optimal cloud solutions.
• Modifying and improving existing systems.
• Designing, developing, and deploying modular cloud-based systems.
• Developing and maintaining cloud solutions in accordance with best practices.
• Ensuring efficient functioning of data storage and processing functions in accordance with company security policies and best practices in cloud security.
• Identifying, analyzing, and resolving infrastructure vulnerabilities and application deployment issues.
• Regularly reviewing existing systems and making recommendations for improvements.
• Interacting with clients, providing cloud support, and making recommendations based on client needs.
• Support the building of architectural patterns, POCs and frameworks for the PAC cloud including infrastructure and environment provisioning, deployment and tools that support, enhance and grow a true model for the Cloud platform.
• Collaborate with other teams to deploy services and help with new design recommendations for operational and product use cases.
• Evaluate and advise on technical aspects of open work requests in the product backlog for other projects as assigned.
• Ability to own projects and take the lead in design discussions.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Engineering;
  Master’s degree a plus.
• Certification as an AWS Solutions Architect, AWS Certified Developer a plus. (Other cloud-related certification also a plus).
• 8 years’ experience in developing software using languages such as Java, Python, Node.
  
  JS, PHP.
• At least 2 years of experience in developing and deploying solutions in native AWS environments.
• Experience with SOA applications and cloud-based services, preferably AWS.
• Experience with the core AWS services like API Gateway, Dynamo
  
  DB, Cognito, Cloud Formation, SQS, SES etc.
• Good background in Linux/Unix administration.
• MLOps related experience is a plus.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes. Having used ECS or EKS in the past is a plus.
• Proficiency in at least one language from our stack:
  Python, Node.
  
  JS, PHP (Laravel).
• Strong notions of security best practices (e.g., using IAM Roles, KMS, etc.).
• Experience with monitoring solutions such as Cloud Watch.
• Previous exposure to large-scale systems design.
• Ability to troubleshoot distributed systems.
• Knowledge of writing infrastructure as code (IaC) using Cloud Formation or Terraform.
• Experience with building or maintaining cloud-native applications.
• Past experience with the serverless approaches using AWS Lambda is a plus. For example, the Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM).
• Knowledge of web services, API, REST and RPC.
• Strong awareness of networking and internet protocols, including TCP/IP, DNS, SMTP, HTTP and distributed networks.
• Database experience, including knowledge of SQL and No
  
  SQL, and related data stores such as Postgres.
• Exposure with Agile development, techniques and methodologies and with CI/CD.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills, and the ability to stay focused on completing tasks and meeting goals within a busy workspace.
• Skilled at working in tandem with a team of engineers, or alone as required. Able to work well with global teams, including time‑zone flexibility.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills – communicates in a clear and succinct manner and effectively evaluates information/data to make decisions; anticipates obstacles and develops plans to resolve; creates actionable strategies and operational plans.

• Paid time off:
  Exempt Salaried employees receive unlimited PTO. This means that there is no fixed number, range, or limit to the amount of Personal and Vacation Days that may be taken for exempt employees. Non‑exempt hourly employees accrue 14 vacation days per year + 7 sick days + 3 personal days.…