Cloud Automation Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

Job Summary
The Cloud Automation Engineer will implement, monitor, and continually improve procedures and resource allocations to ensure professional, high quality technology support and services. Provide support and maintenance of cloud computing systems, both on-premises and with third parties, including assessing systems services to identify potential weakness and problems and refining deployment, backup, and integration scripts.

Essential Functions
•Work on multiple projects to research, propose and implement strategies in the automation, migration and consolidation of complex distributed systems with both private and public on-premises and cloud infrastructures. This may entail converting or migrating physical servers to virtual machines on-premises or to cloud providers (e.g. Azure, AWS) as well as moving virtualized instances located on-premises into services provided by cloud vendors.
•Develop, implement, and manage containerized on-prem and cloud infrastructure solutions using Docker and Kubernetes, ensuring high availability, scalability, and security of applications deployed across multi-cloud and hybrid environments.
•Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate container orchestration into CI/CD pipelines and optimize deployment workflows by leveraging build and orchestration tools such as Jenkins and Terraform, enabling developers to seamlessly move code through an industry-standard, automated pipeline.
•Assist in the management of multiple database instances in support of various cloud applications.
•Implement changes in multiple environments from test or development to staging to production which may include automating various tasks in multiple environments.
•Respond to alerts and customer reported issues. Escalate or resolve problems as needed by exercising independent judgement and within established support practices.
Minimum Qualifications:
•Bachelor’s degree with 5 years related professional or Associate’s degree with 7 years related professional experience.
•3 years providing Cloud orchestration and coding in a large complex environment.
•Knowledge and experience with system scripting using technologies such as Python and Bash.
•Knowledge and experience working with virtualization environments and tools such as VMWare.
•Experience with automation products, such as Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible or GIT.
•Knowledge and experience with industry standard cloud best-practices as they relate to deployment, provisioning, and pipelining.
•Experience in UNIX/Linux including TCP/IP and Basic Networking
•Excellent analytical and organizational skills to plan, recommend, implement, and monitor effective and efficient processes and to identify problems and implement solutions.
•Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
•Ability to work independently with minimal guidance.

Preferred Qualifications:
•Experience working in a large complex educational environment a plus.
•Experience and certification with AWS or Azure.
•Experience with database management systems such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server.
•Experience with centralized automated configuration management and provisioning solutions for Linux systems such as RedHat Satellite, Puppet or Ansible.
•Experience working in a team-based environment and a proven history of implementing cross-departmental initiatives.Ansible, AWS Technologies, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cloud administration, Automation, Automation Scripts, Infrastructure Automation, Azure DevOps, Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS), Azure Pipelines, Azure Storage, Microsoft Azure, Windows Azure, AWS Glue, AWS integrations, Docker, Cloud integrations, Kubernetes, Continuous Deployment, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CICD), Continuous Process Improvement, Continuous processes, Code Deployments, Deployment Automation, Deployment Tools, Server Deployments, Software Deployment, Windows Deployment, Jenkins, Terraform, Cloud operations, Python, Bash, Vmware Infrastructure, VMware, Vmware Technologies, GIT, UNIX, Unix Environments, Linux, Linux System Administration, Linux Technologies, TCP/IP, TCP, MySQL, MySQL PostgreSQL, PostgreSQL, PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server, MS SQL Server, Red Hat Satellite, Red Hat, Puppet