Remote Cloud Engineer

Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc., (SGA), is searching for a Remote Cloud Engineer for a Contract assignment with one of our premier Healthcare Services clients in Jacksonville, FL.

• MANAGER NEEDS TRUE CLOUD ENGINEERING/ARCHITECTURE EXPERIENCE
• AWS AND AZURE REQUIRED
• GOOD EXPERIENCE WITH TERRAFORM
• PURE DEVOPS RESOURCES NOT NEEDED
• Responsibilities :
• Responsible for monitoring, installation, configuration, administration, troubleshooting and maintenance of technology solutions.
• Provide technical support and troubleshoot problems and perform scripting/programming to ensure stable and efficient operation of technology solutions.
• Drive and implement automation enhancements and process improvement efforts, are assigned to multiple complex systems/applications.
• Lead initiatives, oversee work results, provide training and serve as a technical resource for other Systems Engineers.
• Work on small to large complex requests with respect to deployed cloud infrastructure technologies within Microsoft Azure AND Amazon AWS.
• Work closely with other Cloud Engineers to architect and drive cloud deployment standards and templates across the whole development lifecycle, from sandbox, concept, through development environments and ultimately Production environments.
• Provide guidance around the created standards and templates such that cloud deployments can be handled by a variety of Cloud team members involved in onboarding throughout the all environments as well as production incremental changes and troubleshooting.
• Interact with Cloud team, engineering, and operations with respect to production and development, providing input around process improvements between teams, between customer relationships and business tool owners.
• Will feel comfortable handling complex operational, day 2 operational issues, upon escalation.
• Will feel comfortable with coaching other members of the cloud teams.
• Work independently and collaboratively with varying skillsets across the organization, with latitude for independent judgment and consulting with peers on all projects.
• Deliver Network Infrastructure and Security standards and practices across the organization. Utilizing Enterprise Terraform and ancillary technologies, such as Bitbucket to drive standards
• Formulates and defines system scope and objectives through research and fact-finding combined with an understanding of applicable business systems and industry requirements.
• Evaluate various lines of business requirements, compare that with available cloud technologies, and through collaboration, produce a technical solution that is cloud ready.
• Devises or modifies procedures to solve complex problems considering computer equipment capacity and limitations, operation time and form of desired results.
• Influence business partners and service providers regarding priorities, hardware/software selection and/or vendor selection.
• Identifies and documents technical strategies, objectives, and drivers.
• Analyzes and documents technical processes and metrics and identifies improvement opportunities.
• Proactively investigate known and unknown error conditions; following prescribed error correction processes as well as documenting resolutions that were not previously identified.
• Analyze problems/trends with client systems and applications and takes steps to avoid recurrence.
• Recognize abnormal processing conditions and raise appropriate issues as needed.
• Re-engineering processes to deliver greater effectiveness and efficiency.
• Identifies/documents how applications and systems interact to support business processes.
• Assesses, applies, and projects the impact of system changes on users and internal and external clients or stakeholders.
• Uses knowledge of systems and industry requirements to develop or modify complex information systems.
• Will mentor, guide, advise and/or check the work of less experienced business systems analysts.
• Considers business implications of the application of technology to the current business environment.
• Other related duties assigned as needed.
• This position typically requires five or more years of IT architecture and cloud operational experience.
• Required Skills:
• A Bachelor's degree in computer science or information systems Required
• 5-8 years of related work experience or equivalent combination of transferable experience demonstrating proficiency and experience in design, implementation, monitoring and troubleshooting technology
• 6 or more years of hands on working as Cloud engineer supporting Azure Cloud and AWS Cloud
• 3 years of Hashicorp Terraform Enterprise development with the following key skills: Terraform CRUD operations Terraform modules