Cloud Engineer - Manager - Consulting - Location OPEN
About the role
The Platforms Practice specializes in mission-critical, intelligent platforms for the world’s most ambitious organizations. Using our product-driven, AI-centric approach, we empower organizations to build for the intelligent digital future. Our elite team of product leaders, data scientists, designers, and software engineers enable our clients to solve their most complex product challenges and positively impact people and the world.
Responsibilities
- Develop solutions to complex problems, recommending changes to policies and establishing procedures that impact your work area.
- Exercise judgment in selecting methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.
- Provide direction and feedback to team members, ensuring successful task completion.
- Lead one or more infrastructure workstreams, driving execution and delivery.
- Work closely with development teams and participate in planning sessions to achieve high level of availability, reliability and performance of their service and platform requirements.
- Collaborate with other teams (Platform, Security) to align infrastructure with application requirements.
- Stay apprised of work and technology in use across all team workstreams.
- Implement automated solutions for builds and deployments (CI / CD).
- Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency and overall system health.
- Automate the provisioning of Infrastructure using tools such as Terraform.
- Automate, optimize and drive efficiency in processes, tools and communication across teams.
- Apply SRE best practices, establish standards and policies for continuous improvements.
- Proficient in Agile delivery and development methodologies.
- Experienced in application delivery processes and application development tools.
- Strong understanding of quality assurance and testing practices.
- Knowledgeable in system development lifecycle and technology integration.
- Lead the effective management and delivery of processes, solutions, and projects, ensuring a strong focus on quality and risk management.
Qualifications
- A Bachelor’s degree required (4-year degree).
- Typically, no less than 4 - 6 years of relevant experience.
- Proven record operating High Availability services on Azure (4+ years)
- Expert understanding of core Azure services such as but not limited to: Azure Functions, Azure Container Apps (or Azure App Service), Azure SQL Database, Azure Blob Storage, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Monitor (Log Analytics & Application Insights), and Azure Managed Prometheus.
- Experience designing, deploying and managing container orchestration platforms using Kubernetes
- Experience implementing SRE standards for Resiliency and Scalability of microservice architectures in Kubernetes
- Experience with infrastructure automation using Terraform
- Experience implementing SLIs, SLOs and Error Budgets as part of development/delivery practices
- Experience monitoring container based microservices & Cloud Platform services
- Use of CI/CD tools - preferably GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps.
- Knowing agile methodology and being able to work by its principals
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Self-starter and strong, quick problem solving skills
Benefits
Comprehensive compensation and benefits package including medical and dental coverage, pension and 401(k) plans, and a wide range of paid time off options.
Pay
Base salary range for this job in all geographic locations in the US is $142,600 to $261,500. The base salary range for New York City Metro Area, Washington State and California (excluding Sacramento) is $171,200 to $297,200. Individual salaries within those ranges are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills and geography.
Schedule
Our expectation is for most people in external, client serving roles to work together in person 40-60% of the time over the course of an engagement, project or year.