Cloud Platform Engineer 1

Choice Hotels International

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Choice Hotels, one of the world’s largest lodging franchisors, has an exciting new opportunity as our Cloud Platform Engineer 1 in the Cloud Platform Engineering team. The Cloud Platform Engineering is the team that designs, develops and manages AWS based infrastructure and services including developer experience. As a key member of our Cloud Platform Engineering, you will implement and maintain cloud native platform capabilities including infrastructure automation, continuous delivery, observability, and security that support the delivery and operation of our AWS cloud-based Software as a Service solutions. Are you excited to learn new technologies and build the next generation cloud platform? We invite you to apply today for our Cloud Platform Engineer 1 role today and #MakeItYourChoice.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in related field required or equivalent experience.
• Enterprise public cloud experience building and maintaining cloud infrastructure including compute, storage, database, networking, and security related services preferred.
• Basic knowledge of Linux administration and networking fundamentals
• Hands on experience with one or more of the following
• One or more scripting languages (Python, Bash, Ruby, PowerShell, or Groovy)
• Cloud automation templating (CloudFormation or Terraform)
• Configuration management and deployment automation tools such as Ansible, Puppet, Salt, or Chef.
• Continuous Integration and DevOps toolchain technologies such as Jenkins, Git and Nexus
• Log aggregation and monitoring tools such as ELK, CloudWatch, Sensu, Prometheus.
• Must be a self-starter and motivated to work with others to accomplish goals with minimal supervision.
• Ability to work effectively in a team-oriented environment, both independently and collaboratively
• Ability to embrace change and adapt to new technologies quickly.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree in related field preferred

Responsibilities

• Design, Deploy and maintain cloud-based infrastructure based on AWS.
• Design and implement infrastructure automation including CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Site Reliability
• Participates in design of cloud application architecture to ensure scalability, availability, observability and security.
• Assists in the evaluation and operationalization of new tools, technologies and cloud services.
• Contributes to and promotes best practices and guidelines to ensure continuous improvement in the Cloud Platform
• Participates in an on-call rotation to provide after-hours production support.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits, including medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Leave and paid time-off for holidays, vacation, personal, family, volunteer, sick, jury duty, bereavement, military, and religious observance
• Financial benefits for retirement and health savings
• Employee recognition programs
• Discounts at Choice hotels worldwide

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees