Senior Cloud Engineer

We are looking for a Cloud Solutions Engineer. This is a full-time permanent hire position with our client. You can work 100% remote (anywhere in USA) for this position. In this role, you will be responsible for the company's cloud environments, components-maintenance, optimization, issue analysis, automation, consulting, and planning of cloud solutions. You should be able to work within established processes and leverage the latest tools, automation, and best practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, create and maintain company's cloud solutions
• Automate cloud related tasks
• Maintain cloud environments in Azure and AWS
• Communicate with customers and resolve complex issues in production environments
• Automating service deployment and maintenance tasks
• Ability to read code
• Monitor database performance, identifying bottlenecks, and implementing tuning strategies to improve query response times.
• Define user access controls, managing permissions, and implementing security measures to protect sensitive data.
• Actively monitor database health, identifying potential issues, and resolving database related errors and anomalies.
• Apply software updates and patches to maintain database compatibility and security

Required Skills

• 10+ years of hands-on experience in an Infrastructure related role
• 4+ years of experience building, delivering, and managing public private and hybrid cloud computing platforms (Azure /AWS) and other open source and commercial DevOps technologies
• 4+ years of hands-on experience working with Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform
• Ability to read and write complex scripts to automate system deployment, troubleshooting, and maintenance
• Solid communicator and ability to resolve more complex issues
• Experience using source code management tools
• Experience with relational databases (MSSQL, MySQL, Postgres) a nice to have
• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or Information Technology or equivalent experience
• Managed Services experience, e.g. ITSM & ITIL, for a plus
• Valid certificates in either AWS, Azure, Google or Oracle cloud is a huge plus