*Hybrid, 3 days onsite, 2 days remote*

A prestigious company is looking for an Associate Principal, Application/Cloud Engineering. This role is focused on engineering and maintaining lab environments in public cloud and data centers using IaC techniques. This person will need experience with DevOps tools like Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Kubernetes, AWS, etc. This person will also need experience developing tools and automate tasks using languages such as Python, PowerShell, Bash.

Responsibilities:

• Engineer and maintain Lab environments in Public Cloud and Data Centers using Infrastructure as Code techniques
• Collaborate with Engineering, Architecture and Cloud Platform Engineering teams to evaluate, document, and demonstrate Proof of Concepts for company infrastructure, application and services that impact the Technology Roadmap
• Document Technology design decisions and conduct Technology assessments as part of a centralized Demand Management process within IT
• Apply your expertise in compute, storage, database, serverless, monitoring, microservices, and event management to pilot new/innovative solutions to business problems
• Find opportunities to improve existing infrastructure architecture to improve performance, support, scalability, reliability, and security
• Incorporate security best practices, Identity and Access Management, and encryption mechanisms for data protection
• Develop automation scripts and processes to streamline routine tasks such as scaling, patching, backup, and recovery
• Create and maintain operational documentation, runbooks, and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for the Lab environments that will be used to validate assumptions within high level Solution Designs

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science related degree or equivalent experience
• 7+ years of experience as a System or Cloud Engineer with hands on implementation, security, and standards experience within a hybrid technology environment
• 3+ years of experience contributing to the architecture of Cloud and On-Prem Solutions
• Ability to develop tools and automate tasks using Scripting languages such as Python, PowerShell, Bash, PERL, Ruby, etc
• Experience with DevOps tools, eg Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Helm and CI/CD pipeline etc.
• Experience with distributed message brokers Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, Amazon Kinesis, etc.
• In depth knowledge of on-premises, cloud and hybrid networking concepts
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Azure Resource Manager
• Knowledge of containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes