Cloud Automation Engineer

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We are seeking a cloud automation engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position will be working 100% remote and will focus on automation in support of the cloud infrastructure team. A candidate in this position will work as part of an enterprise cloud services team and will assist in the automation of cloud infrastructure, ensuring efficient, reliable, and scalable operations.

The candidate will be part of a team of automation engineers implementing automation tools and processes. This role will develop and implement the automation needs for the cloud infrastructure team.

The candidate responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Develop and deploy comprehensive cloud automation strategy to meet the cloud team’s automation requirements
• Identify automation tools and best practices and support the adoption of the tools and practices across the cloud team
• Analyze existing cloud processes and identify areas where automation can be implemented to optimize cloud processes
• Support the automation needs of the cross-functional cloud infrastructure team
• Identify and implement cloud strategies to increase self-service infrastructure deployments using cloud native services
• Manage cloud infrastructure and ensure availability, scalability, and security through automation
• Monitor and optimize the performance of cloud services and resources through automation
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform, CDK, and Cloud Formation in support of streamlined deployment and management of cloud infrastructure
• Automate cloud infrastructure team reporting on service usage, cost, etc.
• Support the development governance documentation and standard operation procedures for automated processes and tools

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree and 12 years of relevant experience preferred
• Five years of experience preferred in cloud technologies including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or other public cloud services with an emphasis on AWS experience
• Three years of experience writing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform, CDK, and Cloud Formation preferred
• Three years of experience in Python, or similar cloud scripting language, and AWS SDK (e.g. Boto3) preferred
• Experience using Python, or similar scripting, with Boto3,…