Senior Cloud Engineer

Title: Senior Cloud Engineer
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Type: Contract

Our client is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer who is a thought leader to assist in a large-scale migration.

Key Accountabilities:

• This resource will play a key role in migrating and transforming legacy solutions to the cloud.

• ssist in building and maintaining cloud-native applications.

• Leverage automation tools such as Ansible and Terraform for operational efficiency.

• Evaluate and propose cost optimization.

• Create and maintain cloud architecture diagrams.

• Daily administration of environments.

• Maintain best practices and support procedures.

• Extend and enhance IBC on-prem policy and standards to cloud deployments.

• Expert-level experience with AWS and GCP.

• Implement and maintain Kubernetes clusters.

• Implement and maintain solutions and technologies that address cyber security issues.

• Perform scheduled and ad hoc control / compliance validation.

• ssessment and audit of compliance against the security policies and standards.

• Improve and maintain monitoring, configuration management, and reporting functions.

• Provide after-hours support for infrastructure weekend maintenance and related emergencies.

• Serve as technical expert in cloud technologies.

• Provide support with escalated help desk requests via ServiceNow.

• Perform troubleshooting as needed, assist with problem-solving efforts, involving other teams, partners, and outside vendors.

Required Skills:

• Bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science, software engineering, or equivalent knowledge acquired by work experience and training.

• Working experience of at least three years in AWS designing and building web environments with services like EC2, ELB, RDS, and S3.

• Minimum of 2 years of experience with configuration and implementation of packaged or custom IAM solutions.

• Proficiency in the ability to prepare presentations, analysis reports, and program status reports.

• Proven experience working in highly collaborative environments.

• solid background in Linux/Unix and Windows server system administration.

• Experience using DevOps tools in a cloud environment, such as Ansible, Azure DevOps, Docker, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Maven, OpenShift and SonarQube.

• Familiarity with Encryption, Logging, and Privacy/Security Protocols (e.g., TLS 1.2, ELK stack).

• Good knowledge of REST/SOAP/JSON web service API implementation.

• Proficiency in script development and scripting languages.

• Expertise in securing systems, providing audit evidence, Cluster/HA, and standards implementation.

• Excellent oral/written presentation skills with the ability to communicate effectively with leadership.

• Relevant technologies include AWS, GCP, ELK, Terraform, Ansible, Java, Kubernetes, Linux, Serverless computing.