Cloud Engineer
October 15
Description
• The Cloud Engineer will implement, secure, and manage private and public cloud infrastructure. • Collaborates with developers to ensure cloud-native workloads are deployed according to IT best practices for security, governance, identity and access management and monitoring. • Collaborates with infrastructure teams to ensure the high levels of resilience (failover, workload balancing, backup & recovery, disaster recovery, vulnerability management) in traditional application deployments are carried over to software definite network, storage and compute implementations in cloud environments). • Responsible for transition of application deployments from traditional network, storage, compute, virtual server, and application constructs to cloud-native platforms. • Monitors and optimizes cloud implementations for technical and cost efficiencies. • Provides project support for requirements gathering design, planning, coordination and implementation of releases, upgrades, or changes to the Premier computing environment. • Serves as an escalation point for troubleshooting problems, and the rapid restoration of production service incidents. • Provides day-to-day guidance and coaching to Administrators and Associates.
Requirements
• Work Experience: Years of Applicable Experience - 2 or more years • Education: High School Diploma or GED (Required) • Cloud Platform Management Experience with a major cloud provider such as Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. • Knowledge of Windows & Linux operating systems, file systems and system administration; knowledge of container run-time and orchestra platforms (Docker, Swarm, Kubernetes) • Ability to execute complex processes with a variety of variables, and direct multiple automated tasks in a specific order to deliver a complex outcome; can invoke cloud-based APIs such as RESTful interfaces • Skills: Proficiency with Powershell, shell scripts, Ruby, Python, YAML, JavaScript • Ability to leverage a variety of configuration management interfaces (Cloudforms, AWS, Cloud formation/OpsWorks, Microsoft Azure Automation/Resource Manager, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Terraform) • Proficiency with leveraging security policies, firewalls, encryption, security, and event management (SIEM) systems • Experience facilitating development teams’ promotion of middleware, configurations, and code through test and production environments • Understanding of cloud cost drivers (overt and “hidden”) such as image size & storage capacity, usage duration, inter-service and egress traffic, and ability to create a TCO model for implementations
Benefits
• Health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance • 401k retirement program • Paid time off • Participation in Premier’s employee incentive plans • Tuition reimbursement and professional development opportunities
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