About the job

Miller & Walsh has an immediate opening for an experienced Senior Cloud Automation Engineer to join our Platform Engineering and Operations team. The Senior Cloud Automation Engineer will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining a scalable, reliable, and secure Infrastructure Automation platform to support our cloud migration, software modernization and business objectives. The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of experience in software development, infrastructure management, and a strong understanding of cloud-based technologies.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain a scalable, reliable, and secure Infrastructure Automation Platform to support our cloud migration, software modernization, and business objectives.
• Deliver Infrastructure Automation solutions to serve customer, product, developer, and operations needs throughout the entire product life cycle, to enable infrastructure, identity, and security teams to manage our Azure Cloud infrastructure through code and automated deployments.
• Foster and evangelize a team culture where serving our platform customers is the primary mission, by continuously monitoring and analyzing customer feedback for platform related pain points and empathizing with customer requests and requirements.
• Develop and maintain automated build, deployment, and monitoring systems to ensure the platform’s availability and reliability.
• Troubleshoot platform issues and work with the engineering, infrastructure, and operations teams to resolve them.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture, Software Engineering, and Development teams to deliver self-service platform capabilities to improve the developer experience.
• Collaborate with IT Operations and Network Operations Center to enable management and monitoring of cloud infrastructure and applications and deliver stable and fault tolerant solutions to achieve application availability targets.
• Collaborate with Quality Assurance Automation team to incorporate automated testing for infrastructure and application deployment pipelines.
• Partner with Compliance and Security teams to ensure infrastructure and applications meet compliance standards and are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats.
• Create and maintain documentation, including platform requirements, functional specifications, and operational procedures.
• Use a business mindset to manage the platform expense and budget in the form of product show/charge backs, in partnership with the IT Finance Division.
  
  

Minimum Job Requirements

Education

• Prefer to have bachelor’s degree in computer science, information-technology, systems engineering or a related study.

Work Experience

• 5+ years’ experience in a technology role, infrastructure or cloud operations, with strong focus on automation.
  

Nice to Have

• A customer-centric mindset and interest in leveraging design thinking to develop a deep understanding of what internal and external customers need and deliver solutions that result in a positive customer experience.
• Solid understanding of the product development life cycle, specifically the relationships that exist between product, development, infrastructure, and operations.
• Experience with Scrum/Agile software development methodology and modern software delivery practices.
• Experience with infrastructure automation tools, preferably Terraform, Packer, and Ansible.
• Experience in Azure core services and the Azure portal, including but not limited to Azure subscriptions, resource groups, networking, compute, storage, backups, data analytics, security, identity, governance, and IaaS and PaaS.
• Experience with provisioning and managing Windows and Linux servers.
• Experience with RESTful APIs.
• Experience writing Python, Bash, Jinja, PowerShell, or similar scripting languages.
• Familiarity with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) tools, preferably Bitbucket, GitHub, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and Artifactory.
  

Salary

$150,000 – $210,000

DISCLAIMER
All duties and requirements are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities.

This position description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by an employee occupying this position. Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by their supervisor(s)/manager(s).

This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an “at will” employment relationship.