Cloud Engineer Duration: 6 months Location: Chicago, IL Overview: The CRS Group is a nationwide Staffing Firm who works primarily with Fortune 500 and Fortune 1000 corporations. Job Description:
The Platform Engineer performs a critical role delivering the core capabilities and features of a strategic platform.
This position will be responsible for the delivery of platform enablers including the design, build, security and operationalization of reusable components in support of business products.
The Platform Engineer is expected to maintain deep technical knowledge of capabilities and features to create platform patterns and technical best-practices with the goal of increasing adoption, operational efficiency, and realized business value.
The level of work required is considered advanced. This position does not have direct reports.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities:
Platform Lifecycle
Drive design, engineering, implementation and configuration of platform services to support overall enterprise patterns, and reenforcing best practices
Develop patterns for common platform needs (e.g. logging, monitoring, alerting, backup, encryption, tooling, etc) across all layers of the platform and supporting services.
Deliver explicit APIs and abstractions that offer flexibility for application developers in leveraging the platform
Works with business and technology partners to identify, define, interpret and clarify scope of platform integrations
Partner with Information Security representatives to develop, implement and/or execute security configurations and controls
Apply and integrate emerging technology trends to new and existing platform enablers
Support and refine the utilization strategy for the platform and enhance its overall architecture, security, performance and financial aspects
Contribute to platform, product and architectural roadmaps Platform Administration
Performs development of common platform components, capabilities and features
Performs development and advanced platform configurations
Creates Integrations and/or Connectors between the platform and FRS and other 3rd party applications
Manages the core security model configurations in accordance with information security Operational Excellence
Provide Tier 3 Support for core platform services and configuration defect resolution
Performs new platform release evaluations and assess impact
Develops and maintains automation for deployments to reduce manual processes and improve efficiencies across systems and data centers.
Leads solution design discussions, develops work effort estimates for implementation and presents solutions
Drafts and maintains solution documentation for platform components, integrations, and common use patterns to meet all architectural, security and operational requirements as defined.
Provides training, coaching and support for issues relating to the platform
Education and Experience:
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of directly related education and/or experience
5 of more years of relevant work experience
Experience delivering platform solutions from design to production
Experience integrating platform with 3rd party solutions
Experience engineering solutions across a heterogenous datacenter, cloud, and SaaS environments
Experience using standard development practices
Experience with change management systems and processes
Experience in troubleshooting, diagnosis, and problem solving
Experience with scripting / IaC languages
Experience with CI/CD tools and processes
Platform certification is a plus
Experience with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) highly desired
Knowledge and Skills:
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Strong organizational skills, with the ability to prioritize and manage projects and time
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Critical thinking and decision-making abilities
Possesses strong written and verbal communication skills
Ability to work independently and on a team
Responsibilities:
Engineering & Security – support and refine engineering practices, processes and procedures for the cloud platform that meet Client Architectural, Security, and Operational needs. Drive design, engineering, implementation and configuration of platform services to support overall enterprise patterns, and reenforcing best practices. Partner with Information Security representatives to develop, implement and/or execute security configurations and controls.
AWS – Establish the initial operating environments (non-production and Production) for hosting FRFS products and services within Client Managed AWS environment. As well as develop patterns for common platform needs (e.g. logging, monitoring, alerting, backup, encryption, tooling, etc) across all layers of the platform and supporting services. Support and refine the utilization strategy for the platform and enhance its overall architecture, security, performance and financial aspects.
DevSecOps & CI/CD Tooling – Implement and manage delivery tooling for application and infrastructure deployment (GitLab & Terraform). Participate in solution design discussions, by developing work effort estimates for implementation, and also presenting solutions.
IaC - Automate design patterns as Infrastructure-as -Code (IaC) and implement and test the automation Please list the top 4 competencies:
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) - Demonstrable advanced level experience with cloud automation tooling and Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, CDK, etc.) Ideally would possess experience moving from CloudFormation & CDK to Terraform.
Building infrastructure solutions leveraging containers/container orchestration, including tools such as Kubernetes, Docker, Lambda, and serverless deployments.
Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery tools – intermediate level of practical experience using and configuring tools such as GitLab (preferrable), Jenkins, Jira, etc.
Scripting & programming languages - Demonstrable experience with scripting & programming languages (e.g. Python, Ruby, Bash, Powershell, Ansible, JavaScript, JSON, YAML, etc.)
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