Cloud / Infrastructure Engineer

Cloud / Infrastructure Engineer The ways we develop, deploy, and operate software are changing. Systems are more portable and flexible, but also more complex. A Cloud / Infrastructure Engineer is able to apply fundamental IT principles to infrastructure development and management that enables modern software operations in portable cloud platforms.

Essential Duties Work with cloud infrastructure providers to manage environments and best-practices

IaC: develop scripts and configuration for repeatable deployment of software and systems

Aid with infrastructure and systems design and development

Apply understanding of IT fundamentals to complement software projects (load balancing, DNS, TLS, virtualization)

Participate in DevOps infrastructure automation

Enforce security principles and practices

Work together with Platform and AppDev personnel to design, deploy, operate, and improve software and systems

Estimate infrastructure and systems costs, and enforce resource budgets

Develop and document operational and support processes

Education Requirements Technical or project management expertise must be documented in the form of academic degrees or other documented credentials

Bachelor's degree in IT-related field

OR equivalent experience

Cloud Native Computing foundation certifications are a plus

Special Skills We provide a list of technologies as a reference, but we are ultimately looking for traits and skills that are complementary to our team and the markets we serve. Candidates should be able to communicate thoughtfully about some of the following (or related) technologies and have sound technical fundamentals that enable them to adopt new capabilities with ease.

Proficiency is desired in some of the following technical areas:

Data storage concepts, NAS and SAN

Compliance frameworks and requirements

Open source projects (e.g. openLeap, Uyuni)

Kubernetes and other container orchestration concepts

Virtualization and operating system management

Cloud platforms - mainstream (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Cloud platforms - alternative (Heroku, DigitalOcean, Linode)

Self-managed and bare-metal machine and cloud management

Content Distribution Networks and methodologies

Machine and operating system management (e.g. SUSE Manager, Ansible)