Cloud Engineer

About the role

The Employees in this job function are responsible for designing, building and deploying cloud-based infrastructure and managed services to achieve scalability, flexibility and cost efficiencies for private and public cloud systems that support the business. They are focused on creating opinionated cloud environments and systems like Storage as a service, Infrastructure as a service etc. that form building blocks used by other enterprise and product teams.

Responsibilities

• Designing and deploying various opinionated cloud environments and platforms aligned with enterprise architecture and security requirements while meeting the business-critical needs of internal customers.
• Collaborate with enterprise architect, security teams, solution architects, product teams, etc. to design, build, and deploy cloud infrastructure solutions to meet the company's needs for scalability, availability, performance and security.
• Monitor system usage to predict future needs, ensuring that the organization scales its IT resources appropriately.
• Develop automation scripts and IaC templates for configuring and provisioning complex cloud resources including identity services, virtual private cloud, gateways, SSL, Kubernetes clusters, NoSQL data stores, etc.
• Integrate enterprise security and disaster recovery policies in cloud infrastructure configurations, ensuring data protection and data retention practices comply with industry regulations.
• Design, implement and optimize cloud-based storage solutions ensuring data availability, security and cost efficiency.
• Assist in the execution of technology strategy and implementation of engineering roadmaps, including optimizing cloud expenditure, maximizing resource usage and ensuring high availability across required geographic regions.
• Evaluate new and emerging cloud technologies for incorporation into existing systems, assist in modernization efforts to prioritize and execute migrations of on-prem services to cloud systems.

Requirements

• Java, Spring Boot, MongoDB, Google Cloud Platform
• Java - For REST API development
• Spring Boot - Framework
• GitHub - Source code management
• Jenkins - CI/CD pipeline
• MongoDB - Database
• GCP - Platform

Skills

• Java
• MongoDB
• GitHub
• Google Cloud Platform
• MySQL
• PostgreSQL
• Agile Software Development
• Core technologies, including Java, Spring, Spring Boot, Junit, Google Cloud Platform, RESTful APIs
• MongoDB - Database
• PostgreSQL - Database
• Agile Software Development - Operational framework for SW delivery
• Visual Studio Copilot - IDE
• Postman / Hopscotch - Testing
• PostgreSQL - Database
• Python - for scripting
• OAuth - Authentication
• IntelliJ - IDE

Preferred Skills

• Java
• MongoDB
• GitHub
• Google Cloud Platform
• MySQL
• PostgreSQL
• Agile Software Development
• Core technologies, including Java, Spring, Spring Boot, Junit, Google Cloud Platform, RESTful APIs
• MongoDB - Database
• PostgreSQL - Database
• Agile Software Development - Operational framework for SW delivery
• Visual Studio Copilot - IDE
• Postman / Hopscotch - Testing
• PostgreSQL - Database
• Python - for scripting
• OAuth - Authentication
• IntelliJ - IDE

Experience

• 3-5 years in development
• Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Information Technology or related (Masters preferred)
• Expertise in core technologies, including Java, Spring, Spring Boot, Junit, Google Cloud Platform, RESTful APIs
• Experience with MongoDB, relational databases and NoSQL solutions
• Solid understanding of CI/CD pipeline design and implementation in a GitHub-based development workflow
• Efficient with canary deployments, and API related technologies such as JSON, REST, Swagger and Hoppscotch
• Knowledge of Continuous Delivery process and tools, testing frameworks and practices (preferably GitHub, Terraform, Tekton, etc.)
• Generate metrics, perform user access authorization, maintain passwords, and build deployment pipelines

Education

• Bachelor's Degree
• Master's Degree (preferred)

Additional Information

• Coding, testing, and deployment of critical features for Connected Consumer and Vehicle applications, ensuring consistency, optimization, resilience, and security.
• Utilize Java, Spring Boot, RESTful APIs, TDD, and other agile principles (e.g., Jira) throughout the development lifecycle.
• Implement and advocate for best practices in software craftsmanship, ensuring solutions are well-documented, maintainable, and adhere to high coding standards.
• Develop and implement comprehensive test plans, automate delivery processes, and continuously improve efficiency to eliminate waste and facilitate rapid, reliable feature releases.
• Architect and Design comprehensive API load-testing strategies and spearhead threat-modeling initiatives in collaboration with security teams to ensure robust, high-performance systems.
• Proven experience designing and operating cloud-native systems (Google Cloud Platform preferred).
• Strong experience with relational databases (e.g. PostgreSQL/SQL) and NoSQL databases (Mongo), data modeling, transactional integrity, and performance tuning.
• Collaborate effectively with cross functional teams and translate requirements into technical specifications and provide ongoing support for application features.

Benefits

• Medical and Dental (FastTek pays majority of the medical program)
• Vision
• Personal Time Off (PTO) Program
• Long Term Disability (100% paid)
• Life Insurance (100% paid)
• 401(k) with immediate vesting and 3% (of salary) dollar-for-dollar match
• Plus, we have a lucrative employee referral program and an employee recognition culture.

Purpose

Our Purpose is Our People and Our Planet. We come to work each day and are reminded we are helping people find their success stories. Also, Doing the right thing is our mantra. We act responsibly, give back to the communities we serve and have a little fun along the way.

Company Culture

We have been doing this with pride, dedication and plain, old-fashioned hard work for 24 years! FastTek Global is financially strong, privately held company that is 100% consultant and client focused. We've differentiated ourselves by being fast, flexible, creative and honest. Throw out everything you've heard, seen, or felt about every other IT Consulting company. We do unique things and we do them for Fortune 10, Fortune 500, and technology start-up companies.

Contact

To view all of our open positions go to: https://www.fasttek.com/fastswitch/findwork