Cloud Engineer

About the role

The Cloud Engineer within Schwab Technology Services (STS) plays a crucial role in enabling the scalable and secure migration of enterprise applications to a multi-cloud infrastructure. This position involves working closely with various teams to deliver cloud-based solutions, troubleshoot issues, and ensure compliance and security.

Responsibilities

• Work with other cloud engineers, security engineers, data center engineers, and application developers to provide and maintain cloud solutions.
• Collaborate with internal and external customers to understand and meet their needs.
• Operationalize Schwab's cloud capabilities to support large-scale virtualized workloads.
• Test, validate, troubleshoot, and implement cloud-based solutions.
• Support live applications by troubleshooting and resolving technical issues.
• Ensure compliance, security, and scalability of data systems.
• Restore services promptly and address disruptions.
• Design and maintain scalable, consistent environments that reduce risk and increase reliability.
• Optimize planning and development through advanced tool integration.
• Address QA challenges by applying best practices in testing and compliance.
• Validate requirements and constraints to support effective development and operations.
• Maintain security policies and address violations.
• Resolve software design challenges using predictive and adaptive methods.
• Build, test, and validate software components while resolving issues.
• Consolidate software changes into secure, stable releases using best practices.
• Ensure systems align with cloud architectures using modern design methodologies.

Requirements

• 3+ years' experience in Public/Private Cloud Infrastructure and/or Public/Private Cloud Application Operations (GCP, Azure, AWS).
• 3+ years' experience in Infrastructure as Code - Leveraging Terraform including building/using net new modules, maintaining including identifying and resolving issues with existing modules.
• Delivered impactful results in previous experiences around scaling, standardizing, visualizing or observing core services.
• Experience using DevOps Tools Suite (Git, Bitbucket, Bamboo, Jenkins).
• Troubleshoots and resolves technical issues using best practices to support live applications.
• Experience with ITIL Operations Processes (Change Management, Incident Management, Problem Management, Service Request Management).
• Prioritizes compliance, security, and scalability of data systems.
• Executes strategies to restore services promptly and address disruptions.
• Designs scalable, consistent environments that reduce risk and increase reliability.
• Optimizes planning and development through advanced tool integration.
• Addresses QA challenges by applying best practices in testing and compliance.
• Validates requirements and constraints to support effective development and operations.
• Maintains security policy violations using best practices.
• Solves software design challenges using predictive and adaptive methods.
• Applies best practices to build, test, and validate software components while resolving issues.
• Consolidates software changes into secure, stable releases using best practices.
• Ensures systems align with cloud architectures using modern design methodologies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.

Skills

• Conducts in-depth analysis, evaluates factors, and influences decisions with insights.
• Ensures stakeholders have the necessary information for informed decisions.
• Analyzes market dynamics, provides guidance to peers, and aligns work with business goals.
• Trusts colleagues to manage outcomes.
• Anticipates consequences of situations and acts to prepare for contingencies in assigned tasks.
• Identifies opportunities for process improvements and implements creative solutions.
• Influences team quality and effectiveness with decisions.
• Versatile in verbal presentations, ensuring mutual understanding.
• Produces work that meets or exceeds quality expectations.
• Writes concise, well-structured, and engaging business documents.

Benefits

• Competitive salary range.
• Eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities.
• Hybrid Work and Flexibility approach.
• Comprehensive benefits package including:
• 401(k) with company match and Employee stock purchase plan.
• Paid time off for vacation, volunteering, and 28-day sabbatical after every 5 years of service.
• Paid parental leave and family building benefits.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance.