Cloud Engineer III
About The Position
27Global is a rapidly growing company in the dynamic industry of software, cloud, and data engineering. We pride ourselves on the quality of the services we deliver, the clients we serve, and the strength of our culture. Our commitment to our employees is evidenced by our consecutive Best Places to Work awards. As a member of 27Global's Cloud Engineering Team, you’ll play a key role in helping our clients modernize their IT infrastructure and help them pursue next-generation cloud innovation. Our Cloud Engineering team is composed of skilled Cloud Architects, Cloud Engineers, and Site Reliability Engineers with a commitment to keeping up with emerging technologies, platforms, and applications, to maintain our competitive advantage in the design, development, and implementation of large-scale projects in the cloud. As Cloud Engineer III, you’ll be serving as an escalation point for complex issues, while working closely with onshore and offshore cloud engineers to plan and implement cloud solutions based on approved architectural designs. This role combines deep technical expertise with an emphasis on project leadership responsibilities. Joining 27Global is an exciting high-growth opportunity offering a competitive base salary, performance bonuses, and variable compensation.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience working with cloud infrastructure (AWS or Azure)
- Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (Github Actions, Azure DevOps, AWS CodePipeline, GitLab CI)
- Experience configuring and troubleshooting networking, Windows/Linux OS, and various cloud services
- Experience with writing and troubleshooting scripts (Python, Powershell, BASH)
- Demonstrated experience with containers, microservice architectures, and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Experience operating and supporting production systems at scale
- Incident response and production support
- Monitoring, logging, and alerting platforms (e.g. Cloud-native tools, New Relic, Datadog, Prometheus)
- Linux systems and cloud networking fundamentals
- Experience creating/updating runbooks, operational documentation, and onboarding standards
- Experience with deploying/configuring relational and NoSQL databases (MSSQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB)
Nice To Haves
- Experience with other cloud service providers such as Azure / GCP
- Understanding of SRE best practices
- Understanding of Databricks and Data pipelines
- Experience interpreting and contributing implementation detail to cloud architectural diagrams for complex environments
- Experience presenting cloud implementation details, operational considerations, and reliability tradeoffs to technical and non-technical audiences
- Experience in a client-facing role, working directly with clients from multiple levels of the organization; often presenting and documenting client environment suggestions and improvements
- Experience with cloud security, such as setting security controls (security groups, profiles, permissions, and key management strategy)
- Experience with deploying/configuring management tools (Puppet, Chef, and Ansible)
Responsibilities
- Serve as senior technical expert for cloud engineering execution, troubleshooting, and production readiness across AWS and Azure projects
- Engage directly with customers and internal stakeholders to present implementation progress, technical details, and operational considerations in partnership with Cloud Architects
- Manage and optimize cost, scalability, and performance of cloud infrastructure in alignment with approved architectural standards and best practices
- Implement cloud solutions using infrastructure as code based on approved architectural designs, ensuring consistency with defined standards and patterns
- Formally and informally mentor junior cloud engineers
- Ensure cloud solutions meet reliability, security, and operational standards prior to production handoff
- Participate in an on-call rotation to provide SRE support
Benefits
- Four-time award winner of Best Place to Work by the Kansas City Business Journal
- A casual and fun small business work environment
- Competitive compensation, benefits, time off, profit sharing, and quarterly bonus potential
- Commitment to continued learning through development, research, and certifications
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
