Cloud Practice Engineer III
Job Summary
Job Description
The Cloud Practice Engineer III will design and implement cloud solutions, working in a dynamic environment and collaborating with customers and prospects. Responsibilities include owning key deliverables, implementing solutions for complexity and scale, creating frameworks and best practices, assisting on larger projects or running smaller ones independently, and mentoring less experienced team members. The ideal candidate possesses strong technical depth in DevOps, infrastructure, application design, and coding. The role requires expertise in various cloud technologies, including Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD, microservices, and more. Agile experience and a collaborative team spirit are essential.
Must have:
- 5+ years technical specialist experience
- 3+ years hands-on programming (Python, Java, etc.)
- Expert Linux/Windows systems administration
- Expert GCP knowledge (Compute Engine, etc.)
- IaC experience (Terraform)
- CI/CD experience (Jenkins, etc.)
- Microservices & Kubernetes experience
Good to have:
- Multi-cloud architecture experience
- Chef/Puppet/Ansible experience
- Monitoring tools (Splunk, Kibana)
- Agile experience
15 skills required
Job Details
Job Summary: The ideal candidate will have several years’ experience with Cloud design and implementation. You will be working in a dynamic environment and encouraged to come up with innovative solutions to technical problems, analyze and prioritize problems, putting users at the heart of every decision. You will ideally have proven experience in multiple cloud deployments. Your engagements will see you working directly with customers and prospects. You will have confidence in knowing your skills (and limitations), you are calm and collected under pressure and always available to mentor the less experienced. Your colleagues see you as a good team player who is keen to share knowledge as well as to listen and learn from others.
Work Location: Remotely within Mexico
Key Responsibilities:
- Own and complete key tasks and deliverables, and collaborate with others to define and implement optimal, complete solutions based on stake holder’s needs.
- Deliver solutions that solve for new levels of complexity, scale, and performance, and in turn, enable breakthrough innovations. Create and apply frameworks, methods, best practices, and artifacts that deliver prescriptive guidance to customers, and publish and present the min large forums and across various media platforms.
- Assist on larger projects or run smaller opportunities independently.
- Technical depth and hands-on implementation experience of various practices and tools in the DevOps toolchain.
- Comfortable rolling up their sleeves to design and code modules for infrastructure, application, and processes.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering. or a related field, or equivalent experience,
- 5+years of experience as a technical specialist.
- 3+years of hands-on experience of programming in languages such as Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net C++ or similar object-oriented language.
- Subject Matter Expert level practical Linux (AND/OR) Windows-based systems administration skills in a Cloud or Virtualized environment.
- Expert level familiarity with automating cloud native technologies, deploying applications, and provisioning infrastructure.
- Expert Knowledge of the primary Google services (compute engine, load balancing, Cloud SQL, Cloud DNS & Cloud Storage).
- Experience with automating cloud native technologies, deploying applications, and provisioning infrastructure.
- Expert level knowledge and Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code, such as Terraform, or other tools.
- Experience developing cloud native CI/CD workflows and tools, such as Jenkins, Bamboo, TeamCity, Cloud Build (Google) and/or GitLab.
- Hands-on experience with microservices and distributed application architecture, such as containers, Kubernetes, and/or serverless technology.
- Experience with seamless/automated build scripts used for release management across all environments.
- Experience with the full software development lifecycle and delivery using Agile practices.
- Experience with Chef, Puppet, Salt, or Ansible in production environments.
- In depth understanding of IP networking, VPN's, DNS, load balancing and firewalls.
- Experience with monitoring and log aggregating frameworks such as Kafka, Logstash, Splunk, Elastic Search, and Kibana.
- Willingness to travel to customer locations as needed.
- Experience with multi-cloud architecture and deployment.
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