Cloud Engineer - All Levels

OPRaaS ·www.opraas.com

Location Chicago, IL, United States
Work type Hybrid
Type Full time
Level Mid
Source Shazamme
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As a Cloud Engineer, you will be responsible for the deployment, integration, and management of private, public, and/or hybrid cloud platform services supporting the development of complex analytical applications at enterprise scale. You'll demonstrate networking and security protocol knowledge to ensure a safe and scalable environment, while protecting accessibility to data assets residing within. You will leverage your expertise in developing infrastructure as code using scripts, templates, blueprints, workflows, CI/CD orchestration tools, and other automation technologies in the spirit of speed and consistency.

Continuous collaboration will be an important aspect of this role as you will work with a variety of architects and peer engineering teams to ensure our cloud solutions meet the organization's needs.

Essential Job Duties & Responsibilities

  • Use infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform to provision and support reliable, fault tolerant and scalable cloud-based storage, compute, and networking services
  • Build metrics and monitoring solutions to track latency and overall health of the system.
  • Work with data governance and data lake teams to implement access controls to data and services
  • Work closely with Security and SRE teams
  • Follow information security guidelines to secure all cloud-based resources.
  • Create and maintain source code repository and gated CI/CD pipelines to build, package and deploy applications
  • Selecting and deploying appropriate CI/CD tools
  • Strive for continuous improvement and build continuous integration, continuous development, and constant deployment pipeline (CI/CD Pipeline)
  • Managing periodic reporting on the progress to the management and the customer
  • Defining and setting development, test, release, update, and support processes for DevOps operation
  • Monitoring the processes during the entire lifecycle for its adherence and updating or creating new processes for improvement and minimizing the wastage
  • Experience working on an Azure based infrastructure
  • Design and implement high-volume data ingestion and streaming pipelines using Open Source frameworks like Apache Spark, Flink, Nifi, and Kafka on ADO (Azure Dev Ops)
  • Excellent understanding of Ruby, Python, Perl, Java, Json Yaml, IaC, Terraform
  • Configuration and managing databases such as MySQL, Mongo
  • Excellent troubleshooting
  • Working knowledge of various tools, open-source technologies, and cloud services
  • Awareness of critical concepts in DevOps and Agile principles
  • End to end implementation of CICD pipelines from scratch



Minimum Qualifications

Cloud Engineer II:
Bachelor's Degree/equivalent in computer science, engineering, or information systems and/or equivalent formal training or work experience. Three (3) years’ experience in cloud engineering or related field. Experience providing leadership in a general planning or consulting setting. Strong oral and written communication skills. A related advanced degree may offset the related experience requirements.
(Sponsorship for this position level is not available)

Cloud Engineer III:
Bachelor's Degree/equivalent in computer science, engineering, or information systems and/or equivalent formal training or work experience. Five (5) years’ experience in cloud engineering or related field. Experience providing leadership in a general planning or consulting setting. Some experience as a leader or a senior member of multi-function project teams. Strong oral and written communication skills. A related advanced degree may offset the related experience requirements.

Cloud Engineer Lead:
Bachelor's Degree/equivalent in computer science, engineering, or information systems and/or equivalent formal training or work experience. Seven (7) years’ experience in cloud engineering or related field. Experience providing leadership in a general planning or consulting setting. Experience as a leader or a senior member of multi-function project teams. Strong oral and written communication skills. A related advanced degree may offset the related experience requirements.

Domicile / Relocation Information

  • This position can be located anywhere in the United States. The ability to work remotely within the United States may be available based on business need.

Frequently asked questions

Who is hiring for the Cloud Engineer - All Levels role?
OPRaaS is hiring for the Cloud Engineer - All Levels position, a Shazamme client. Apply directly on the employer's career site.
Where is the Cloud Engineer - All Levels job located?
The Cloud Engineer - All Levels role with OPRaaS is based in Chicago, IL, US. The role is hybrid-friendly.
Is the Cloud Engineer - All Levels role remote?
Yes — the Cloud Engineer - All Levels position at OPRaaS is hybrid. Candidates based in US are preferred.
Is the Cloud Engineer - All Levels role full-time or contract?
This is a full time position at OPRaaS.
What experience level is the Cloud Engineer - All Levels role?
The Cloud Engineer - All Levels position is aimed at mid-level candidates.
How do I apply for the Cloud Engineer - All Levels role at OPRaaS?
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