Lead Cloud Engineer

Lead Cloud Engineer

Community America Federal Credit Union seeks a Lead Cloud Engineer for Lenexa, Kansas.

• Oversee design, migration, and implementation of cloud-based infrastructure.
• Assist with the deployment, monitoring, and maintenance of high-availability SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS solutions hosted in the Azure cloud.
• Support multiple agile teams delivering quality solutions and supporting them through the SDLC change process into production.
• Help set cloud standards and best practices.
• Support, maintain, and create deployment systems and CI environments using Azure Dev Ops and Jenkins.
• Provide Tier 3 incident support for applications.
• Automate software build, test, and deployments with other developers.
• Assist with sprint planning, daily stand‑up activities, and lead on‑call duty as needed.
• Lead and report on cloud project status; manage and lead assigned project activities.
• Mentor, train, and lead junior system and Dev Ops engineers.
• Follow security best practices and work with the security team to maintain controls.
• Implement and support disaster‑recovery solutions.
• Ensure capacity planning processes are followed.
• Participate in direction of documentation standards and reviews.
• Provide technical development mentoring and trend analysis to management.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related, and 5 years progressive experience. Must include concurrent experience with the following:

• Infrastructure automation/infrastructure as code using Terraform.
• 5 years in a major cloud platform such as Azure or AWS.
• Load‑balanced web architectures.
• Estimating Azure costs and identifying operational cost control mechanisms.
• Scripting languages such as Power Shell, Python, Bash.
• Automation/configuration management software such as Ansible or Puppet.
• Development of Methods of Procedure (MOPs).

Position also requires demonstrated knowledge/skills in:

• Fundamental network knowledge: TCP/IP, routing, subnetting, DNS, OSI model.
• Linux.
• Azure Services with strengths in App Services, Virtual Machine Scale Sets, Virtual Networks, Application Gateway, Azure Kubernetes Service.
• Ability to explain system technology in non‑technical terms.
• Scripting skills and ability to leverage vendor tools for defect or performance resolution.
• Advanced knowledge in software and information lifecycle processes, data systems, relational databases, and client‑server concepts.
• Project management skills and industry knowledge.
• Ability to create automation scripts using multiple preferred scripting languages.
• Working knowledge in two or more technology families.

Applicants must have legal authority to work in the United States.