Senior Cloud Engineer/Administrator

Syngenta Group•Durham, NC

17h

About The Position

Architect, design, secure, and implement Cloud native technologies. Research, design, secure, and implement cloud services within research cloud accounts. Oversee third party cloud suppliers’ activities and services. Define and communicate cloud standards for DevOps teams. Identify and architect automation opportunities. Perform daily monitoring and operations, verifying integrity and availability of cloud services and key processes. Install and configure monitoring and security software on EC2. Assure adherence to security policies in cloud services and configurations. Create and maintain knowledge base documentation such as runbooks, onboarding and support processes, development standards and best practices, and account inventory. Design and implement AWS Solutions by utilizing various AWS services to meet business requirements. Develop and maintain disaster recovery technologies and procedures. Architect, design and implement CI/CD for the organization. Re-architect applications from traditional server-based architecture to AWS docker container-based services and microservice architecture. Develop reusable, efficient, and scalable python modules to automate manual tasks in AWS infrastructure. Partner with customers to architect solutions, share standards and best practices, implement serverless applications, and integrations with third party products and services. Use Python boto3 module to automate AWS IAM Keys rotation, notify users of AWS Guard Duty, and Security Hub findings/vulnerabilities. Troubleshoot and resolve the root cause of AWS & Azure platform incidents. Work closely with solution architects and data engineers to prototype and implement newly launched AWS services to solve problems.

Requirements

Master’s degree in Technology, Computer Science, or a related field of study
Seven (7) years of experience in the position offered or seven (7) years of experience as a Cloud Engineer, Software Developer, or a closely related occupation.
Five (5) years of experience maintaining and administering computer networks and related computing environments including hardware, systems software, applications software, and configurations.
Five (5) years of experience diagnosing and troubleshooting network relations issues across layers 3 through 7; software development lifecycle management (SDLC).
Five (5) years of experience developing clean, secure, test driven, maintainable, and modular code; Docker; Spring, Java EE, JavaScript, and SQL; planning and implementing network security measures to protect data, software, API traffic, and monitoring (AppDynamics) for threats and vulnerabilities.
Five (5) years of experience with DevOps automation tools including Maven, Nexus, Jenkins, Ansible, and Sonar.
Five (5) years of experience with Continuous integration and deployment(CI/CD).
Five (5) years of experience engineering solutions for high availability and failover in production environments by managing middleware-related issues, conducting performance tuning of Java EE application servers in Linux environments, operating system metrics and Java virtual machine utilization, and conducting root cause analysis.
Five (5) years of experience performing data backups for on-prem and cloud resources and disaster recovery operations.
Two (2) years of experience with Terraform and AWS CloudFormation.
Two (2) years of experience with Python and AWS Cloud Native services.
Two (2) years of experience with Infrastructure-as-Code(IAC) methodologies utilizing AWS Cloud Formation and Terraform to deploy infrastructure across AWS and Azure cloud platforms.
Two (2) years of experience with AWS Services including IAM, Cognito, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, Lambda, API Gateway, Event Bridge, EC2, EMR, S3, GuardDuty, Security Hub, IoT, Cert Manager, EKS, Fargate, Systems Manager, Application and Network Load Balancers, Security Groups, NACL, WAF, Route Tables, Route 53, Transit Gateway, VPC, Firewalls, CloudFormation, CDK, SQS, SNS, SMS, RDS, DynamoDB, Aurora, Kinesis, TimeStream, Neptune, and FsX.
Two (2) years of experience with AWS, OpenShift, and Kubernetes; Python; AWS Code, Github, BitBucket, Gitlab, and SVN.
One (1) year of experience with SaaS integration with Snowflake.
One (1) year of experience administering Dataiku and Snowflake.
AWS Certification: Solutions Architect.
Must pass a background check and drug test before beginning employment.

Responsibilities

Architect, design, secure, and implement Cloud native technologies.
Research, design, secure, and implement cloud services within research cloud accounts.
Oversee third party cloud suppliers’ activities and services.
Define and communicate cloud standards for DevOps teams.
Identify and architect automation opportunities.
Perform daily monitoring and operations, verifying integrity and availability of cloud services and key processes.
Install and configure monitoring and security software on EC2.
Assure adherence to security policies in cloud services and configurations.
Create and maintain knowledge base documentation such as runbooks, onboarding and support processes, development standards and best practices, and account inventory.
Design and implement AWS Solutions by utilizing various AWS services to meet business requirements.
Develop and maintain disaster recovery technologies and procedures.
Architect, design and implement CI/CD for the organization.
Re-architect applications from traditional server-based architecture to AWS docker container-based services and microservice architecture.
Develop reusable, efficient, and scalable python modules to automate manual tasks in AWS infrastructure.
Partner with customers to architect solutions, share standards and best practices, implement serverless applications, and integrations with third party products and services.
Use Python boto3 module to automate AWS IAM Keys rotation, notify users of AWS Guard Duty, and Security Hub findings/vulnerabilities.
Troubleshoot and resolve the root cause of AWS & Azure platform incidents.
Work closely with solution architects and data engineers to prototype and implement newly launched AWS services to solve problems.