Sr. Cloud Engineer- First Dollar (Remote)

Inspira Financial • Oak Brook, IL

157d

About The Position

We are seeking a talented Senior Cloud Engineer to join our growing team. This role is responsible for the design, administration, maintenance, and support of the enterprise infrastructure for a dynamic, growing business. The ideal candidate will have a strong technical background in DevOps and automation coupled with excellent communication skills to collaborate with stakeholders and translate business requirements into scalable and efficient solutions, and to implement DevOps culture and improve developer experience. Working within a team environment, the SCE participates directly in solution creation, providing hands-on support as well as operational support and training. This individual must be creative, client focused, solutions-driven, organized, and can thrive in a dynamic environment.

Requirements

• 7-10 years of experience in software or solution architecture roles, with a focus on designing and implementing complex, enterprise-level solutions using cloud platform
• Expertise in Terraform HCL + Terraform CDK is a plus.
• Strong knowledge of software architecture principles, design patterns, and architectural frameworks.
• Strong understanding of Continuous Delivery patterns, Cloud foundational patterns, Observability patterns, Developer experience patterns.
• Related certifications are a plus (e.g. GCP Cloud Engineer)
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience

Nice To Haves

• Proficiency in various programming languages, technologies, and platforms relevant to the organization's technology stack.
• Strong understanding of software architecture principles, design patterns, Continuous Delivery patterns and architectural frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement Google Cloud Platform (GCP) infrastructure and solutions
• Work in an Agile framework to identify and automate solutions that result in enhanced developer experience and increased developer productivity.
• Provide Domain expertise in DevOps culture, tooling, delivery methods and practices in GCP cloud.
• Maintaining and upgrading the deployment platforms as well as system infrastructure with Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform or similar tools.
• Support inbound calls/emails, maintaining tickets within the issue tracking application related to Infrastructure Support
• Cross train and mentor other team members to facilitate coverage.
• Maintaining and upgrading CI/CD pipelines to enable development teams to go faster with high quality and robust security posture.
• Understand and adhere to organization’s architectural principles, patterns, and guidelines to ensure optimal solution development and implementation.
• Collaborate with architects to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture standards and strategies.
• Effectively utilize AI coding assistants to accelerate developer productivity.
• Stay abreast of emerging technologies, industry trends, and best practices in solution architecture and technology innovation.
• Contribute towards defining and establishing benchmarks, metrics, and quality measures.
• Focus on the implementation of cost-effective, extensible, and supportable solutions.
• Support the stability and resiliency of all relevant production processes, as well as, instituting a robust support model addressing process and application failures.
• Maintaining and upgrading observability, alerting and dashboard platforms using GCP tools and/or enterprise tools.
• Other duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees