Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

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Job Summary

• DATE POSTED 2 days ago
• Schedule Full-time
• Job Code 4762
• Employee Status Regular
• Grade K
• Requisition

Build and maintain scalable, highly available, and resilient systems in the cloud and on-prem. Implement any new cloud functionality or migrate existing processes to the cloud and maintain them. Build and deploy systems utilizing Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery framework and infrastructure automation.

This is a hybrid-eligible position.

• Build and manage IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS services (e.g., compute, storage, network, security, administration, automation, application services, and databases) in either native cloud or hybrid cloud environments. Ensure the infrastructure is optimized for performance, cost, and security.
• Develop and maintain automation scripts using a devops language (e.g., Python) and infrastructure-as-code templates to provision and manage Oracle OCI and AWS resources using Terraform.
• Engineer processes across servers, applications, and databases and monitor them to ensure reliability, facilitating spikes in traffic and usage.
• Take responsibility for infrastructure resource design and performance optimization, backup and recovery strategies, and monitoring the overall health of the environment.
• Develop and maintain connectivity solutions between campus infrastructure to ensure necessary data is available as needed.
• Collaborate with application development and infrastructure teams to optimize cloud-based solutions for high performance and cost-effectiveness.
• Ensure monitoring coverage for applications and proactively manage health of applications/systems; drive root cause analysis and resolve issues in a timely fashion.
• Implement best practices for IaaS and PaaS services lifecycle.

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor s degree and eight years of relevant experience or a combination of education and relevant experience.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Demonstrate cloud infrastructure experience including AWS, GCP, Azure, OCI
• Extensive experience with AWS server deployment using AWS CLI and Terraform
• Experience in orchestrating environment deployment from OS to application layers using Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Git, Puppet
• Experience with servers, infrastructure, platform sizing, and infrastructure cost reduction
• Experience with automated deployment/CI/CD
• Experience in network security and network awareness
• Experience with full-stack infrastructure including database, web server, and application server development as code
• Understanding of networking, firewall, security hardening, storage, and OS package management in Unix environments
• Strong understanding of cloud technologies focusing on AWS and OCI
• Comprehensive knowledge of Dev Ops practices and tools
• Knowledge of infrastructure APIs on cloud platforms (EC2/VM/Bare Metal/Containers, Storage, Network/VPC/Subnet, etc.)
• Extensive experience deploying Infrastructure as Code patterns using Terraform
• Proficient scripting in Unix shell and Python for automation
• Ability to work independently or as part of a team and to learn new technologies quickly
• Excellent communication, presentation and collaborative problem-solving skills
• Ability to collaborate with vendors and system service providers and act as a liaison

• Experience with Single Sign-On SAML, OpenID is a plus
• Experience with AWS SQS, API Gateway, OAuth 2.0 & RESTful APIs is a plus
• Experience in Oracle OCI is highly recommended

The expected pay range for this position is $150,922 – $155,000 per annum.

Stanford University provides pay ranges representing its good faith estimate of what the university reasonably expects to pay for a position. The pay offered to a selected candidate will be determined based on factors such as the scope and responsibilities of the position, the qualifications of the selected candidate, departmental budget…