Cloud Engineer III
About The Position
This role is a remote position within the continental US. While remote, there may be occasions where you are requested to come to the office based on business need, with advance communication. The Cloud Engineer III will be responsible for ensuring documentation is created and maintained for all aspects of Cloud platform implementation, maintaining compliance with current standards, and developing automation for standardization and architectural design patterns. This role involves providing design and coding reviews, ensuring runbooks/playbooks are created and maintained, and participating in advanced troubleshooting sessions. The engineer will review architectural designs for applications, define operational characteristics for Cloud-native services, and ensure operational metrics for production performance, reliability, scalability, and availability are within thresholds. Additionally, the role contributes to continuous improvement through research, knowledge article creation, presentations, and facilitating discussion groups, while also working to improve the quality and cost-optimize Aflac's Cloud environments. Continuous learning, mentoring team members, and contributing to overall team initiatives including recruiting, training, and speaking engagements are also key aspects of this position. Performs other duties as required.
Requirements
- Infrastructure-as-Code expertise (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK)
- Cloud Architecture experience (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- Programming/scripting experience (Python, PowerShell, Ruby, Java, JavaScript)
- Configuration Management software experience (Chef, Ansible, Puppet, SaltStack)
- Familiarity with running and scaling distributed software systems (load balancing, high availability, systems monitoring, etc.)
- Familiarity with structured text (JSON, YAML, XML)
- Proven application production support experience
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Passion for automating routine tasks
- Solid understanding of networking and network-related structures
- Willingness to be a part of a culture of continuous improvement
- Ability to lead and work in projects
- Extensive experience with Linux, Unix, and Windows operating systems internals and administration
- Ability to multitask and adapt to quickly changing priorities
- Ability and willingness to work off-hours on occasion
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related field
- 4+ years of experience in cloud architecture, engineering or support
- Extensive experience with multiple programming/scripting languages, Windows and Linux Operating systems, networking, systems and data design and agile methodologies
- Or an equivalent combination of education and experience
Nice To Haves
- Certification Two or more AWS or Azure
Responsibilities
- Ensures that documentation is created and maintained as it relates to all aspects of the Cloud platform implementation
- Ensures that Cloud environments remain in compliance with the current standards and works with consuming teams to update when required
- Develops automation for the standardization of the Cloud environments and architectural design patterns for consumption by project teams
- Provides design and coding reviews for automation and Infrastructure-as-Code
- Ensures that runbooks/playbooks for operational support of the Cloud environments are created and maintained
- Participates in advanced troubleshooting sessions including working with business teams, analyzing logs and data, opening service requests with CSPs, working with Vendors, Partners, and CSP Support, and driving problem resolution
- Reviews architectural designs for applications to ensure reliable and performant design patterns are implemented
- Defines the operational characteristics for that the Cloud-native services
- Ensures that defined and tracked operational metrics for Production performance, reliability, scalability and availability dimensions are within given thresholds and addresses any deviations
- Contributes to the team's continuous improvement through advanced topic research, creation and approval of knowledge articles, presentations, and facilitating discussion groups
- Continuously works to improve the quality and cost optimize of Aflac's Cloud environments
- Continuously learning and mentoring team members and project teams
- Contribute to overall team initiatives including recruiting, training, and speaking engagements
- Performs other duties as required
Benefits
- medical coverage
- dental coverage
- vision coverage
- prescription drug coverage
- health care flexible spending
- dependent care flexible spending
- Aflac supplemental policies (Accident, Cancer, Critical Illness and Hospital Indemnity offered at no costs to employee)
- 401(k) plans
- annual bonuses
- opportunity to purchase company stock
- 11 paid holidays
- up to 20 days PTO
- state-mandated sick leave
- other leaves of absence
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
