Staff Cloud Engineer - Contract

About the role

This position is an important role in the development, test, and deployment of complex solutions. The candidate will build technical strategy for broad or complex requirements, participate in the strategic development of methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for projects and programs, drive all aspects of technical architecture, design, prototyping and implementation, provide leadership and technical expertise, guide a broad functional area, and lead efforts through the functional team members.

Responsibilities

• Build technical strategy for broad or complex requirements with insightful and forward-looking approaches that go beyond the direct team and solve large open-ended problems.
• Participate in the strategic development of methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for projects and programs.
• Drive all aspects of technical architecture, design, prototyping and implementation in support of both product needs as well as overall technology strategy.
• Provide leadership and technical expertise in support of building a technical plan and backlog of stories, and then follow through on execution of design and build process through to production delivery.
• Guide a broad functional area and lead efforts through the functional team members along with the team’s overall planning.
• Represent engineering in cross-functional team sessions and able to present sound and thoughtful arguments to persuade others.
• Adapt to the situation and can draw from a range of strategies to influence people in a way that results in agreement or behavior change.
• Collaborate and partner with product managers, designers, and other engineering groups to conceptualize and build new features and create product descriptions.
• Own features or systems and define their long-term health, while also improving the health of surrounding systems.
• Absorb and resolve production issues.
• Develop and implement tests for ensuring the quality, performance, and scalability of our application.
• Seek out ways to improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.
• Supporting the company’s commitment to risk management and protecting the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data.

Requirements

• Education and/or experience typically obtained through a Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical field.
• Eight or more years of relevant related experience.
• Six or more years of work experience with Java/Spring.
• Hands-on Docker experience.
• Two or more years of experience in the development of front-end solutions. Hands-on familiarity with modern frameworks (Angular/React).
• Strong knowledge of AWS services (EC2, IAM, ELB, Route53, S3, Lambda, Cloud Formation, DynamoDB).
• Experience architecting Kubernetes based systems.
• Proficient with using and debugging networks, DNS, HTTP, TLS, load-balancing, build systems, Linux, and Docker.
• Experience in building CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience building and scaling Workflow pipelines.
• Experience in data center operations, monitoring, alerting and notifications.

Skills

• Experience designing cloud infrastructure for robustness, security, and observability.
• Expertise in infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, and continuous deployment pipelines.
• Experience in highly scalable distributed datacenter or cloud computer systems (AWS, Azure, VM).
• Experience in building and scaling Workflow pipelines.
• Experience in data center operations, monitoring, alerting and notifications.

Benefits

The company offers a competitive benefits package which includes:

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Paid time off
• Flexible spending accounts
• Retirement savings plans

Pay

The salary range for this position is $80,000 - $120,000 annually, depending on experience and location.

Schedule

The position follows a hybrid work model to allow for a more collaborative working environment. Employees are expected to work remotely two days per week and in the office one day per week.