Cloud Engineer (OMAHA- onsite)

First National Bank•Omaha, NE

7d•$79,363 - $130,949•Hybrid

About The Position

As a Cloud Engineer, you will help drive the delivery of first-class cloud solutions (on the AWS platform). You will use cloud-based technologies to modernize infrastructure, provide infrastructure automation services, and migrate workloads to the cloud. You will also partner with software development teams to streamline and automate release management pipelines. As a Cloud Engineer, you will play a key role in helping FNBO achieve its cloud computing strategy and driving our IT transformation efforts.

Requirements

2-4 years of engineering experience on a major cloud platform required (AWS preferred)
2-4 years of experience with server administration (Linux preferred), networking or infrastructure required
Experience with AWS services (Preferred): Networking: VPC / Subnets / Route Tables / VPG / Security Groups, Compute: EC2 / AutoScaling / Load Balancers, Database: RDS / Aurora / DynamoDB, Other: SQS / SNS / S3 / IAM / EKS / CloudWatch / CloudFront / Kinesis / Lambda
Experience with Infrastructure and Application Monitoring concepts
Experience administering Kubernetes clusters
A strong background in scripting and/or programming languages (BASH, Perl, Ruby, Python, YAML, Java, etc.)
4 years of experience in the IT field
Cloud certifications from the major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) preferred
Knowledge in designing & implementing infrastructure-as-a-code (IaC) using Terraform, Ansible, and GitLab.
Knowledge of containerization technologies such as EKS, ECS and Docker
Knowledge of networking, firewalls, load balancers etc.
Knowledge of private cloud and hybrid cloud configurations required
Knowledge of ITSM delivery
Strong commitment to customer service and service enablement
Able to work effectively, both independently and as a member of a cross-functional team
Self-driven & motivated, with a strong work ethic and a passion for problem solving
A desire to conceptually understand our business
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Excellent influencing and reasoning skills; good at conflict resolution and consensus building
Experience working with third-party vendors
Understanding of Scrum Agile methodology and have worked on a Scrum team
Able to participate in on-call rotation
Candidates must possess unrestricted work authorization and not require future sponsorship.

Responsibilities

Utilizes industry best practices to continuously develop and maintain a resilient, secure, scalable, and efficient cloud-hosted platform to support the ongoing cloud transformation for FNBO.
Assist with the inputs for recommendations for cloud design, infrastructure design, software development design/architecture, application frameworks, and/or interfaces.
With some guidance, implement tools and automation to provide self-service capabilities to the organization for building, configuring, maintaining, and monitoring cloud-based infrastructure and cloud platform services (Infrastructure as Code and Configuration as Code).
Automate and evolve the pipelines to continuously integrate and deploy code (CI/CD).
Leverage technologies (such as Terraform and Ansible) and scripting languages to build automations to enhance the efficiency and reliability of processes.
Leverage the observability platform (Dynatrace) to identify and address cloud infrastructure deficiencies, availability gaps, performance bottlenecks, and improve mean time to resolution (MTTR).
Troubleshoot production issues and respond to after-hours escalations. Escalate support issues to vendors (when necessary) to drive timely resolution of issues for critical systems.
Collaborate with peer organizations, product delivery teams, and support organizations to provide guidance on technical matters in a clear, concise, and easily understood manner.
Create and deliver documentation and presentations to developers and operations teams to share knowledge (Architecture diagrams, system flows, run books, procedures, etc.).
Actively participate in community of practices and demonstrate a solid understanding of cloud computing technologies.
Follow emerging industry trends and build proof of concepts to evaluate current cloud technologies, concepts, designs, and provide new recommendations.
Periodically assist with the testing and maintenance of the disaster recovery plan for our hybrid multi-cloud environment.