Cloud Engineer

About the role

The Enterprise Cloud Architect team at UMB was recently formed to streamline and accelerate the adoption of the Cloud. The team provides self-service means to empower other teams to deploy cloud-native platforms while ensuring security, governance, architectural best-practice, cost containment, and control. The team works to provide architecture, tools, services, knowledge, support, organization structure, and operating model arranged as a compelling product.

Responsibilities

• Participate in defining enterprise cloud strategy (AWS), reference architectures, and design patterns.
• Involvement in hands-on building of AWS environments.
• Design and implement CI/CD pipelines (Terraform).
• Adhere to governance frameworks, technology standards, and architectural principles.
• Communicate architectural vision to executive, technical, and business audiences.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• At least 5 years of experience in designing and implementing cloud architecture (AWS) for enterprise environments.
• Following technical skills:
  • Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform)
  • AWS Cloud platform
  • AWS Cloud security, identity, and compliance (i.e. IAM, VPC, etc.)
  • AWS Network fundamentals (i.e. VPC design, routing, NLB, ALB, API_GW, etc.)
  • Containerization (i.e. Docker)
• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to translate technical concepts for diverse audiences.
• Strategic thinker mindset balancing delivery with long-term vision.
• Proficiency in Agile/Scrum.

Qualifications

• Bonus Points if you have AWS Solutions Architect Professional Certification, AWS DevOps Engineer Professional Certification, or any additional cloud certifications.
• Banking/financial services industry experience.
• Development experience especially with .NET.
• AWS Enterprise Support or Well-Architected Review experience.
• Event-driven architecture (i.e. Kafka, Kinesis).
• Microservices and API design.
• Kubernetes advanced management.
• IDE experience.

Skills

• Communication skills with the ability to translate technical concepts for diverse audiences.
• Strategic thinker mindset balancing delivery with long-term vision.
• Proficiency in Agile/Scrum.

Benefits

• Competitive and varied benefits to eligible associates, such as Paid Time Off; a 401(k) matching program; annual incentive pay; paid holidays; a comprehensive company sponsored benefit plan including medical, dental, vision, and other insurance coverage; health savings, flexible spending, and dependent care accounts; adoption assistance; an employee assistance program; fitness reimbursement; tuition reimbursement; an associate wellbeing program; an associate emergency fund; and various associate banking benefits.