Staff Cloud Engineer - Contract

Early Warning®•Chicago, IL

23d•Hybrid

About The Position

This position is an important role in the development, test, and deployment of complex solutions. The role involves building technical strategy for broad or complex requirements with insightful and forward-looking approaches that go beyond the direct team and solve large open-ended problems. The engineer will participate in the strategic development of methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for projects and programs, and drive all aspects of technical architecture, design, prototyping, and implementation in support of both product needs and overall technology strategy. This role provides leadership and technical expertise in support of building a technical plan and backlog of stories, and then follows through on execution of the design and build process through to production delivery. The engineer will guide a broad functional area and lead efforts through the functional team members along with the team’s overall planning. They will represent engineering in cross-functional team sessions and be able to present sound and thoughtful arguments to persuade others, adapting to the situation and drawing from a range of strategies to influence people. Collaboration and partnership with product managers, designers, and other engineering groups to conceptualize and build new features and create product descriptions is key. The engineer will actively own features or systems and define their long-term health, while also improving the health of surrounding systems. Assistance to support and operations teams in identifying and quickly resolving production issues is expected, as is the development and implementation of tests for ensuring the quality, performance, and scalability of our application. The role also involves actively seeking out ways to improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes, and supporting the company’s commitment to risk management and protecting the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data. For Cloud Focus Only: Lead infrastructure-as-code projects, designing APIs and building tools to be used by engineering teams for reliable and repeatable cloud deployments. Implement abstractions to simplify the complexities of cloud providers (AWS), open-source technologies (Kubernetes), and internal EWS infrastructure. Obsess about the usability of the systems you build, allowing engineers to have an intuitive and predictable experience working with infrastructure at scale. Troubleshoot complex infrastructure problems, often spanning multiple layers of the stack and requiring work with multiple teams. Experience designing cloud infrastructure for robustness, security, and observability is essential.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical field.
Eight or more years of relevant related experience
Seven or more years of experience in the development of distributed systems, SaaS, cloud solutions, micro services.
Hands-on Docker experience.
Two or more years of experience in the development of front-end solutions.
Hands-on familiarity with modern frameworks (Angular/React)
Six or more years of work experience with Java/Spring.
Proficiency in Maven/Gradle.
Demonstrated experience in delivering business-critical systems to the market.
Ability to influence and work in a collaborative team environment.
Experience designing/developing scalable systems.
Experience with event-driven architecture and messaging frameworks (Pub/Sub, Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc).
Working experience with cloud infrastructure (Google Cloud Platform, AWS, Azure, etc).
Knowledge of mature engineering practices (CI/CD, testing, secure coding, etc).
Knowledge of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) best practices, software development methodologies (Agile, Scrum, LEAN etc) and DevOps practices.
Expertise in infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, and continuous deployment pipelines
Expertise in AWS foundations including compute, networking, storage, observability and security.
Experience in automating AWS services using Terraform and Ansible.
Experience in highly scalable distributed datacenter or cloud computer systems (AWS, Azure, VM)
Strong knowledge of AWS services (EC2, IAM, ELB, Route53, S3, Lambda, Cloud Formation, DynamoDB)
Experience architecting Kubernetes based systems
Container orchestration - Kubernetes, TKGi, EKS, ECS
Proficient with using and debugging networks, DNS, HTTP, TLS, load-balancing, build systems, Linux, and Docker
Experience in building CI/CD pipelines
Experience building and scaling Workflow pipelines
Experience in data center operations, monitoring, alerting and notifications

Nice To Haves

MS or PHD
JavaScript and scripting frameworks experience (JQuery, AngularJS)
Monitoring and Alerting systems experience (AppDynamics)
Computer language experience (C#, Ruby, Python, and PHP)
Knowledge of ACH/EFT
Knowledge of real time payment networks (RTP, FedNow)
FinTech experience
Kubernetes experience
AWS, Azure (and/or other cloud-based) certification(s) strongly preferred

Responsibilities

Build technical strategy for broad or complex requirements with insightful and forward-looking approaches that go beyond the direct team and solve large open-ended problems.
Participate in the strategic development of methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for projects and programs.
Drive all aspects of technical architecture, design, prototyping and implementation in support of both product needs as well as overall technology strategy.
Provide leadership and technical expertise in support of building a technical plan and backlog of stories, and then follow through on execution of design and build process through to production delivery.
Guide a broad functional area and lead efforts through the functional team members along with the team’s overall planning.
Represent engineering in cross-functional team sessions and able to present sound and thoughtful arguments to persuade others.
Collaborate and partner with product managers, designers, and other engineering groups to conceptualize and build new features and create product descriptions.
Actively own features or systems and define their long-term health, while also improving the health of surrounding systems.
Assist support and operations teams in identifying and quickly resolving production issues.
Develop and implement tests for ensuring the quality, performance, and scalability of our application.
Actively seek out ways to improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.
Supporting the company’s commitment to risk management and protecting the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data.
Lead infrastructure-as-code projects, designing APIs and building tools to be used by engineering teams for reliable and repeatable cloud deployments
Implement abstractions to simplify the complexities of cloud providers (AWS), open-source technologies (Kubernetes), and internal EWS infrastructure
Obsess about the usability of the systems you build, allowing engineers to have an intuitive and predictable experience working with infrastructure at scale
Troubleshooting complex infrastructure problems, often spanning multiple layers of the stack and requires working with multiple teams