Senior Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure, Asset Management

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Job Summary
As a Senior Engineer you will be considered a technical expert in cloud infrastructure, deployment automation, infrastructure-as-code practices, environment operations and monitoring capabilities to support business critical digital platforms. Platforms include AWS-hosted services, Adobe Experience Manager cloud services, Jenkins-based automation, Terraform-managed infrastructure and SFTP/File processing and related data integrations. You will determine specifications, plan, design, and develop business critical technology solutions, utilizing appropriate engineering processes - either individually or in collaboration with the data infrastructure and digital experience teams.
This Senior Engineer has engineering technology expertise in AWS and Adobe Experience Manager cloud services.
DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

Designing Solutions

• Apply technical knowledge to drive outcomes for customers
• Ability to work and problem solve independently on initiatives that align to the broader software engineering strategy
• Support cloud environment provisioning, cleanup, and cost optimization.

• Member of team that can work independently, as well as collaboratively with team, in developing core software for the product that delivers outcomes.
• Manage AWS services including S3, IAM, Route 53, Cloud Front, EC2, VPCs, Security Groups, WAF, ACM, load balancers, networking, certificates, DNS in order to meet/exceed the teams expectations for site stability, scalability, resilience, etc.

• Shares new ideas and techniques with team, stay up to date with AEM and AWS related enhancements and Dev/Ops practices.

• Participate in team’s collaboration sessions to provide technical expertise to solve a problem/remove technical roadblocks for the team
• Participate in product planning and implementation. Helps team to understand and decompose work

• Contribute to develop engineering practices, templates and frameworks in collaboration with the team.
• Ensure cloud resources are secure, documented, recoverable and aligned with operational standards
• Lead the continued implementation and operationalization of Terraform across AWS and related infrastructure.
• Support Adobe Experience Manager as a Cloud Service environments, Cloud Manager pipelines, content deployment processes, package movement, and environment synchronization.
• Partner with engineering and data teams to evaluate additional infrastructure automation opportunities

• Continuously assessing technology to build more stable, scalable, and resilient software;
  Use data to measure progress
• Promote and expand on the use of the CI/CD pipeline to improve the deployment and build process. Administer and improve Jenkins jobs and automation workflows.
• Support cloud environment access control and infrastructure governance.
• Maintain source control practices using Git/Bitbucket/Git Hub
• Participates in the team support rotation and provides expert knowledge on focus subsystems.

• Contribute to define the selection criteria…