Systems Engineer II

With a company culture rooted in collaboration, expertise and innovation, we aim to promote progress and inspire our clients, employees, investors and communities to achieve their greatest potential. Our work is the catalyst that helps others achieve their goals. In short, We Enable Possibility℠.

About the role

We are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated Cloud Engineer to join our team. This position is ideal for recent graduates who are passionate about cloud technologies and eager to learn and grow in a dynamic environment. The Cloud Engineer will assist in driving and managing cloud deployments in Azure and AWS, leveraging Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation. This role is central to our cloud transformation, supporting efficient and scalable solutions for our organization.

Responsibilities

• Assist in Azure and AWS deployments using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, Terragrunt, and Ansible, ensuring effective consumption of IaC modules.
• Advocate for cloud-native practices by evaluating, recommending, and engineering cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS) solutions, maintaining a catalog of guidance and standards.
• Utilize DevOps and DevSecOps tools, CI/CD pipelines, automation, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) scripts to deploy cloud services.
• Provide support to engineering and operations teams on ensuring the end-to-end availability and performance of mission-critical services.
• Actively track and evaluate emerging technologies to enhance network and application performance, strengthen security, and raise service levels.
• Strengthen relationships and partnerships with Enterprise Architecture, Automation, and other key teams to enhance collaboration and streamline project deployments and execution.
• Document reference deployments and create long-term plans to build, maintain, and improve IT infrastructure, ensuring resilience and minimal downtime.

Skills

• Basic understanding of Azure and AWS cloud platforms and their offered services.
• Familiarity with relevant technologies including infrastructure automation and configuration tooling (Terraform), Kubernetes environments (AKS/EKS), shared GitHub Actions libraries, and scripting (PowerShell, Bash, Python, YAML, etc.).
• Exposure to DevOps (CI/CT/CD) tools (GitHub Actions, JFrog Artifactory, Sonar Cloud, Argo CD, and Harness) is a plus.
• Basic knowledge of technology solutions, including concepts, practices, methods, and techniques in engineering public cloud, networks, Windows/Linux, and IT tools (monitoring, logging, alerting, Service Now, etc.).
• Exposure to Containerization (AKS, EKS, OpenShift) and Serverless technologies is a plus.
• Strong problem-solving, analytical, and decision-making ability.
• Demonstrated ability to translate business needs into IT Infrastructure needs.
• Basic understanding of engineering security technologies for private and public cloud services.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to communicate technical concepts to a technical and non-technical audience.
• Exceptional customer and end-user experience focus.
• Demonstrated ability to establish relationships and build rapport to influence colleagues at all levels, uncover business issues, and identify needs.
• Knowledge of disaster recovery best practices including planning and testing.
• Exposure to continuous (blue/green) deployment and canary tests is a plus.
• Experience working in a hybrid on/offshore model is a plus.

Benefits

• Multiple medical plans plus dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.
• Competitive 401k with generous matching.
• PTO beginning at 20 days per year.
• Up to 12 paid company holidays per year plus 2 paid days of Volunteer Time Offer.
• Basic Life and AD&D Insurance as well as Short and Long-Term Disability.
• Paid Parental Leave of up to 10 weeks.
• Student Loan Assistance and Tuition Reimbursement.
• Backup Child and Elder Care.