PE -Cloud Automation Engineer - Nouveau-Brunswick, Canada - Mitchell Martin

Description

Our client, a major American low cost airline, is seeking a PE -Cloud Automation Engineer

Location : Remote

Position Type: Contract

Position Summary

• The Cloud Automation Engineer is responsible for designing, documenting, provisioning, and maintaining cloud infrastructure via code.
• This Engineer prepares performance and cost-optimal cloud services to deliver infrastructure aligned with reference architecture standards, frameworks, and patterns.
• This Engineer maintains the infrastructure and collaborates with operational teams for change management and incident response.
• The Engineer excels when working on complex projects, is motivated to deliver results, maintains operational excellence, and exhibits the, Caring, Integrity, Passion, and Fun.

• Write and execute Infrastructure as Code (IaC) pipelines capable of deploying standard cloud services including Virtual Networks, Firewalls, Load Balancers, Storage Accounts, Application Program Interface (API) Management Gateways, Kubernetes clusters, Messaging bus services, Managed databases, and Virtual Machines
• Write and execute code capable of managing Cloud governance policies, security, and cost management constructs
• Implement and leverage Configuration Management and GitOps to maintain infrastructure leveraging Ansible, Salt, and Terraform
• Plan and build Cost effective Platform as a Service (PaaS) solutions including provisions for high availability and disaster recovery
• Code and deploy infrastructure leveraging Availability Zones/Availability Sets
• Create and maintain infrastructure documentation and operational procedures using tools such as Confluence and Lucid chart
• Collaborate and provide knowledge transfer to operational support teams and collogues
• Create monitor alerts and remediation workflows
• Build auto-remediation capabilities using automation frameworks and serverless functions
• Implement autoscaling features, container management policies, and specify virtual hardware to optimize for low cost and high application performance
• Monitor, operate, maintain, and improve cloud environment based on operational metrics, Service Level Agreements (SLAs), and best practices
• Other duties as assigned

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related IT discipline; OR demonstrated capability to perform job responsibilities with a High School Diploma/GED and at least four (4) years of previous relevant work experience
• Three (3) years of experience in a production operations environment
• Three (3) years of experience in Microsoft Azure Cloud production environment
• Three (3) years of experience coding and scripting in one of the following: Python, Bash, PowerShell
• Three (3) years of experience deploying and operating containerized applications
• Experience deploying scaling, and administering production Kubernetes clusters - Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) preferred
• Excellent knowledge of Continuous Integration (CI)/Continuous Delivery (CD) and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) automation tools
• Proficient in IT Infrastructure, networking concepts, IT security, server engineering, virtualization, data center tools, processes, and modern event-driven application architecture
• Strong understanding of DR (Disaster Recovery) and HA (highly availability) solutions and their use
• Available for overnight travel (up to 10%)
• In possession of valid travel documentation with the ability to travel in and out of the United States
• Able to work flexible hours and be available for emergency responses on short notice
• Must pass a pre-employment drug test
• Must be legally eligible to work in the country in which the position is located
• Authorization to work in the US is required. This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship

• Four (4) years of experience working as a Linux Systems Administrator or Windows System Administrator
• Four (4) years using a Configuration Management platform: Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Salt
• Experience designing and building critical production solutions which are: implemented as code, fully automated, auto-scaled, fully instrumented, and monitored
• Experience with VMware vRealize management suite, including vRealize Automation and Orchestration
• Experience designing monitoring and alerting strategies, backup, and disaster recovery
• Experience operating and leveraging hyperconverged computing platforms such as Nutanix and VxRail
• Experience with industry frameworks and methodologies: ITIL/Agile/Scrum/DevOps/SRE