Cloud Engineer; REMOTE

Benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) retirement plan, paid time off, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, flexible spending accounts, commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement.

• Serve on the engineering team to support a Word Press site on AWS running a Kubernetes CI/CD pipeline and work with the cloud architect to implement, support and maintain all environments across the web assets to include lower environments.
• Achieve uptime, monitoring, and business continuity goals of the enterprise.
• Manage a production environment running Word Press on AWS that will handle a high volume of traffic and traffic spikes to include establishing monitoring and operational procedures to ensure business continuity.
• Be available to help outside 9-to-5 hours for infrequent production troubleshooting when necessary.
• Maintain, support, and troubleshoot all other environments, including developer environments, testing environments, and pre-production environments using Kubernetes (EKS) or other AWS utilities.
• Work closely with the AWS Architect, Product Owner, Scrum Master, engineers, and security engineers to define and build the initial service offering as well as the roadmap for future releases.
• Possess in-depth knowledge of AWS services and cloud computing, and the ability to communicate architectural trade-offs/design options so that the Product Owner can make informed decisions.
• Be a motivated team-player with the desire and ability to work in a fast-paced, exciting environment.
• Participate in and support a team that is charged with coordinating and implementing various solutions required to support the AWS Cloud.
• Implement proof of concepts/pilots for various solutions, develop operational plans for supporting all the solutions developed, and create documentation and implementation plans for various solutions used to access and leverage AWS.
• Build and implement all cloud infrastructure to be the first field of any production support calls.
• Engineer and design solutions on cloud platforms such as AWS.
• Run risk logs and collaborate with the ISSO and System Owner to manage risk
• Be the main point of contact for providing responses on Common Vulnerability Reports
• Collaborate with technology team to document system boundaries and install controls in place germain to the technology and document with supporting evidence
• Provide recommendations to meet relevant security regulations, controls and policy.
• Implement the design by installing, configuring and testing cloud services and associated 3rd party services and software.
• Determine how to leverage services from cloud providers and identify gaps that must be met through other tools, software, or 3rd party services.
• Participate in assessment of system security controls to validate control implementation and identify weaknesses.
• Perform continuous monitoring using the solutions and tools.
• Perform security impact assessment of proposed changes to the environment to identify adverse changes in security risk posture or compliance.
• Identifying new and innovative ways to use existing tool sets to automate security management, monitoring and related processes to reduce risk and costs.

• Kubernetes and understanding traffic pattern for a high-traffic web site running a Content Management System is preferred.
• Amazon web infrastructure and services including Route
  53, Cloud Formation, Open Search, Kinesis Firehose, Config, EKS, WAF, Cloud Front, EC2 & EBS, RDS, ALB, Certificate Manager, S3, Secrets Manager, Virtual Private Cloud, Lambda, Inspector, Key Management Service, Elastic Cache, SES, Cloud Shell, ECR, Cloud Watch, SNS, Guard Duty, Cloud Trail
• Passionate about identifying constraints/bottlenecks in engineering life cycles and automating them
• Focused on building a culture of collaboration, transparency, and automation
• Experience managing and deploying pipeline solutions as well as containerized applications via tools such as Argo Workflows, ArgoCD, Github Actions, Git Lab CI, Azure Dev Ops, Jenkins, Bitbucket pipelines, etc
• Experience building and supporting Infrastructure as code (IaC), leveraging tools such as AWS CDK, Ack, Cloud Formation, Terraform, Pulumi, Ansible, Salt, Chef, etc
• Proven knowledge in Power Shell, with demonstrable ability to build and understand logical scripts, utilizing statements such as, if/else, foreach, try/catch, etc
• Deep understanding of IaaS, PaaS, and Serverless services offered on cloud platforms and understand how to use…