Cloud Engineer (Advisor)

Fannie Mae • Reston, VA

3d • $155,000 - $209,000

About The Position

Playing an essential role in the U.S. economy, Fannie Mae is foundational to housing finance. Here, your expertise can help fuel purpose-driven innovation that expands access to homeownership and affordable rental housing across the country. Join Fannie Mae to grow your career and help people find a place to call home. Job Description As a valued contributor to our team, you will apply your extensive knowledge of principles, advanced techniques, and theories to the design and development of information technology (IT) infrastructure environments, including coding, testing, and certifying technology platforms, software, and applications. You'll provide technical direction to the team and solutions to technical business problems. THE IMPACT YOU WILL MAKE The ideal candidate brings extensive experience in team building, collaboration, and facilitation of Cloud engineering in a large, multinational Fortune 500 enterprise. This individual will possess extensive experience in secure, scalable cloud infrastructure, with proven leadership capabilities. In this role, they will manage large-scale public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP). The Cloud Infrastructure - Technology Engineering - Advisor role will afford you the opportunity to work as an individual contributor, while partnering with peers at the Manager and Senior Manager levels.

Requirements

• 6 years of hands-on experience engineering cloud platforms
• Skilled in engineering resilient, highly available cloud solutions in secure multi-cloud environments e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP
• Deep knowledge of cloud infrastructure, network architecture, security, and identity management.
• Experience in building cloud environments (accounts and VPCs) and software-defined networking that allows for connectivity across the enterprise platforms
• Ability to design Fault Tolerant platforms and implement Failover and Recovery Strategies
• Skilled in DevOps and modern CI/CD methodologies and tools
• Automating cloud orchestration with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to scale services
• Experience with Cloud-native development frameworks and tools e.g. VPC, Lambda, SNS
• Understanding of modern cloud scalability to right-size resources to meet platforms computing needs
• Analytics and KPI usage to continuously evolve and improve Cloud Platforms
• Knowledgeable of modern cloud architecture and holistic developer experience.
• Ability to train and develop mid-senior level engineers
• Strong understanding of mission-critical environments
• Ability to advise technical and non-technical stakeholders on Cloud Strategy and solutions
• Strong problem solving, critical thinking, and analytical skills
• Public Cloud Services: AWS
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform, CloudFormation, JSON, YAML, and ARM Templates
• Programing/Scripting: Shell Script, Python, PHP, JavaScript, Perl, Ruby, and AWS step functions
• OS: Linux
• DevOps Practices: Continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD)
• Networking: Understanding cloud network architecture, VPCs, and load balancing
• Security: Implementing security best practices, access control, and data encryption
• Compliance: Adhering to industry regulations and compliance standards
• Active Directory (AD), Active Directory (AD), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Atlassian JIRA, Authentication Management, Backup and Recovery (Software), Calendar and Scheduling Tools, Cleaning and Transforming Data, Cloud Technology, Collaborating Cross-Functionally, Communicating in Technical Writing, Communicating Technical Information, Communication, Configuration Management (CM), Conflict Resolution, Coordination, Customer and Market Insights, CyberArk, Cybersecurity Analysis, Data Analysis, Data Analysis Interpretation, Database Management, Data Mining, Data Visualization

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• Cloud Certifications
• Experience working in mission-critical environments

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute strategic cloud infrastructure plans and drive best practices
• Design and implement cloud strategies and architectures.
• Build robust and modern solutions with hands-on coding
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align cloud solutions with business goals.
• Stay current with cloud technologies and industry trends.
• Develop technical documentation and executive-level presentations.
• Mentor junior engineers.
• Ensure integration of cloud solutions with existing systems.
• Identify and mitigate risks; troubleshoot complex issues.
• Advocate for cloud best practices and standards.

Benefits

• Fannie Mae offers a broad range of Health, Life, Voluntary Lifestyle, and other benefits and perks that enhance an employee's physical, mental, emotional, and financial well-being.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees