• Software modernization, converting legacy frameworks into cutting-edge state-of-the-art modern architecture through ruthless automation and refactoring.
• Adherence to the principles of agility and lean software development.
• Domain blueprint/framework ownership and the associated technical roadmap (group of technologies or products).
• Establishing guiding principles and design patterns to be used for a product or domain area.
• Evaluating new technology and making recommendations for adopting new technologies, licensed or open source. Recommending technology choices to Engineering Leadership for vetting and approval.
• Taking product/domain vision and translating that into the technical blueprint for the engineering team to build.
• Providing coaching, oversight for senior/lead software engineers.
• Being hands on with some coding/development as business need dictates.

• In depth analytical understanding of Java technologies
• Experience in a DevOps environment is preferred
• Experience infrastructure planning, application load and performance testing
• Experience with performance tools such as SilkPerformer, LoadRunner, JMeter or Grinder
• Experience with various UI technologies include Angular and Bootstrap
• Load, stress and performance scenario development and scripting/automation
• In depth performance diagnostic and troubleshooting in data platforms
• Familiarity with relational databases (prefer Oracle/Postgres), Unix shell scripting, XML, ISAPI, HTML, XSLT and basic NT/UNIX system administration
• Solid understanding of Microservices architecture
• Experience with container platforms (Docker) preferred
• GIT or TFS (Team Foundation Server)

The Senior Cloud Engineer will design, implement, secure, and manage private and public cloud infrastructure. Collaborates with development leads and architects to ensure cloud-native workloads are deployed according to IT best practices for security, governance, identity and access management, and monitoring. Collaborates with infrastructure leads and architects to ensure the high levels of resilience (failover, workload balancing, backup & recovery, disaster recovery, vulnerability management) in all cloud environments. Responsible for overall strategy for moving all applications to cloud-native platforms. Integrates cloud compute environments with traditional data center services. Maintains a keen market awareness of cloud platform alternatives and differentiators to communicate a rationalized Cloud roadmap. Provides project leadership for requirements gathering, design, planning, coordination, and implementation of releases, upgrades, or changes to the Premier computing environment. Serves as an escalation point for troubleshooting problems, and the rapid restoration of production service incidents. Leads project teams and works closely with internal and external customers and vendors to provide proposals and supporting analysis for operational improvement and ongoing project requirements. Possesses an enterprise view of the business environment and the business applications running on the systems being managed. Provides day-to-day guidance and coaching to cross-functional team members, Engineers, Administrators and Associates. Major Accountabilities:

• Ensure all workloads are on the correct platform based on product revenue, criticality, performance profile, and cost.
• Migrate workloads between platforms as needed.
• Provide resource consumption reporting (for all public/private/cloud container platforms (by application) to TechOps and business teams on a monthly basis. Review and refine reporting for maximum impact
• Adapt self-service and manual provisioning interfaces and processes to drive the provisioning of resources on the most business and cost appropriate platforms
• Work with Python, Ansible, and other scripting languages to automate Infrastructure actions and help provide and support a Self-service portal for developers to consume with GUI and API calls.
• Establish processes to identify over-provisioning of resources, automatically reclaim resources, and notify stakeholders.
• Implement controls that ensure individual workload consumption is either approved by business stakeholders or constrained by compute pool resource limits.
• Support efforts to establish “show back” of all costs associated with internal and external cloud and container platforms.
• Partner with development team leads and team members to support velocity in continuous integration and delivery process.
• Maintain awareness of and proficiency in development team CI/CD processes and tools.
• Ensure software development pipeline, testing, code repository, and issue tracking systems integrate well with cloud and container platform services.
• Work with Development iteration teams in an agile environment including but not limited to attending/stand ups, product meetings and involvement with sprint tasks.
• Identify applications on traditional infrastructure that could be re-expressed in cloud environments and develop priorities for migration based on level of effort and cost benefit.
• Play a key role in the technical deployment for new application initiatives, beginning at the business requirements stage, to determine and deliver technical components necessary to build and deploy the new application
• Ensures technical and architectural requirements are incorporated appropriately within new system initiatives.
• Play a key role in technology evaluation, selection, integration and implementation of new systems architectures, tools and techniques
• Review and analyzes vendor-supplied utilities, software packages and engineering releases for the environment.
• Attend vendor conferences and presentations to maintain current and develop new business relevant skills.
• Provide hands-on support for private/public cloud and container-based platforms. Provide 24 hour on call support for incident management and service restoration on a rotational basis.
• Ensure platform availability with proper monitoring of key events and alerting to appropriate service owners for conditions that can result in degradation or downtime of services.
• Provision workloads on appropriate compute platforms.
• Assist development teams with self-service and API call challenges.
• Review incident trends and proactively register problems. Plan and implement changes to address risks and inefficiencies.
• Establish standards, document change procedures, coordinate planned maintenance, and communicate impacts to stakeholders.
• Trains others in proper procedures for handling issues. Teach and train automation skills utilizing via shell scripts and scheduling tools.
• Maintain and update relevant components of the IT disaster recovery plan. Performs recovery testing as part of an overall disaster recovery planning process.
• Ensures all application and data components can be recovered according to backup retention policies.
• Develop a baseline understanding of system and component performance and resource utilization trends. Use this information to project growth requirements and plan for future capacity requirements.
• Develop and maintain as-built documentation, network drawings, network configurations and operating procedures.
• Continuously seek new means and methods to improve the security posture of all cloud and container environments.
• Partner with security team to document current methods and explore new means to perform vulnerability assessment (VA) in cloud environments.
• Regularly review all “build” templates to ensure current patch levels, minimum services enabled, and acceptable VA scan results.
• Ensure all workloads have network isolation from each other through segmentation methods approved by the Network Manager and Security Operations VP.
• Ensure the Network and Security teams have all possible visibility to network traffic and “net flow” data in cloud & container environments.
• Drive continuous improvement in patch management processes and vulnerability management policy.
• Implement role-based access privileges in each platform that ensure user roles have the least possible access needed to perform their busines
• function
• Validate access requests with appropriate managers and optimize group membership-based access methods.
• Work with service providers to maintain current implementations of hardware, software, and services to ensure maximum value, performance and availability.
• Identify risks and gaps across the technology stack and escalate them in to vendor governance as needed.
• Document, develops and maintains effective working relations with users, vendors, and other department personnel. Education & Work Experience:
• Bachelor’s degree.
• Compute stacks, scripting, automation and orchestration, configuration management, cloud networking, security, devops, governance and financial analysis.
• Understanding of application delivery concepts via cloud-native and traditional infrastructure platforms and ability to apply them to solve problems and provide solutions.
• 7 or more years of applicable experience.

Agile Scrum Certified (CSPM)