Job description

Senior Cloud Engineer - Clearwater, FL The Cloud Engineer position is an individual contributor role. He/she will work as an interface between Developers, Business Operations, and Support staff. He/she is passionate about designing and developing Cloud solutions. The position requires senior-level proficiency in technology, hands-on coding skills, and the ability to translate high-level business requirements into technology execution. A strong candidate will have: Use DevOps/Agile as the core philosophy for Cloud Infrastructure Provisioning/Configuration/Delivery. Agile software delivery process using AzureDevops (including breaking down work into modular tasks, updating/tracking task status/work log entries for sprint management), Stash/Git (source code management including branching strategy, code review), Ansible (auto-configuration using zero-downtime application deployment techniques). Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs Proactively communicate and collaborate with internal customers to analyze information needs and functional requirements and deliver the following artifacts as needed: Functional/Business Requirements, High-Level Architecture, System Requirements, Design Documents, Wireframe, etc Successfully engage in multiple initiatives simultaneously. Work independently with users to define concepts and under the direction of product owner, project managers. Drive and challenge business units on their assumptions of how they will successfully execute their plans. Serves as the conduit between the business/customer community and the software development team through which requirements flow Develop infrastructure requirements specifications according to standard templates. Experience in troubleshooting infrastructure resources issues and taking on-fly decisions. Expectations for this role: Infrastructure Provisioning and Automation: Understanding of Terraform Data Structures and Functions to create IaC manifests. Familiarity with Terraform Opensource and TFC. Fluency and hands-on to deploy infrastructure with terraforming using AzureRM | AWS provider. Experience to create Terraform configuration manifests from scratch. Experience and hands-on to define Terraform Blueprints for modules and deployment manifest from scratch. Familiarity to use modules and configuration manifest into different landscapes with DRY approach(Workspaces, Variables) Fluency to transform infrastructure requirements into terraform code. Extensive fluency to create / modify / refactor terraform modules from scratch. Experience working with Git Repositories for Modules Control Version and Lifecycle with Azure DevOps and GitHub. Experience working with Terraform Cloud and Modules Registries with AzureDevops. Fluency and hands-on to define terraform sentinel policies with alignment with Security and Governance. Good understanding of Azure Policies / Custom Roles to be applied and used when creating Terraform Policies and Terraform Deployments. Infrastructure Configuration / Automation Fluency in one or mode scripting languages including Bash, Python, or PowerShell. Familiarity with configuration management system and understanding of configuration as Code - Ansible. Familiarity with Ansible Galaxy and Private Git Repositories for Roles and Collection Lifecycle. DEMONSTRATE Experience and fluency to crate Ansible Playbooks, Roles, Collections, and Inventories (static and dynamic) from scratch. Fluency with Ansible and AzureDevops CI/CD pipelines for configuration management (Ansible Playbook must be run using AzureDevops CI/CD pipelines, similar to use GitLab Pipelines / GitHub Actions). Fluency with AzureDevops to be used as Repository for roles, collection, and playbooks lifecycle. Experience with Ansible and Windows Hosts configuration management. Fluency and Familiarity to work with Ansible Tower, Redhat Satellite for RHEL deployments, and configuration management for Linux and Windows Hosts

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