Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Pathward is a financial empowerment company focused on increasing financial availability, choice, and opportunity for all. The company is seeking a Cloud Engineer II to optimize, automate, maintain, troubleshoot, and enhance AWS cloud environments while ensuring reliability, scalability, and security. The role collaborates with Architecture, DevOps, Engineering, and IT security teams to deliver cloud solutions and support production-critical AWS events.
Responsibilities
- Creates a well-informed cloud strategy and manages the adaption process
- Designs, plans, manages, maintains, and supports, and any other technological duties associated with the organization’s cloud computing environment
- Monitors the consumption of cloud resources, requests fulfillment turnaround, application performance, and systems security posture and evaluate cloud applications, hardware, and software as needed
- Designs technical solutions on AWS public cloud environments, creating functional design specifications, reference architectures, and other technical specifications
- Works cross-functionally with multiple teams to analyze cloud service provider SLAs, KRI, and KPI metrics. Collaborates with Engineering teams to enable their applications to run on applicable Cloud Platform. Works closely with IT security to monitor the company's cloud privacy
- On-Call Rotation: Part of a team that rotates on-call duties for production-critical events in AWS
- Other duties as assigned
Skills
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent education and work experience
- Typically 3+ years with bachelor's or equivalent
- AWS Expertise: A minimum of 3 years of hands-on experience working with AWS
- AWS Services: Working knowledge of key AWS services, including but not limited to EC2, S3, VPC, RDS, IAM, Lambda, and CloudWatch
- Security: Strong understanding of AWS security best practices and experience implementing security measures, including Identity and Access Management (IAM) and network security
- Network Configuration: Experience with AWS network infrastructure, including VPCs, security groups, NACLs, and familiarity with routing, VPNs, and Direct Connect
- Monitoring and Logging: Experience with monitoring and logging tools like AWS CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and familiarity with third-party monitoring solutions
- High Availability and Disaster Recovery: Knowledge of AWS services and best practices for achieving high availability and disaster recovery
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, or similar technologies
- Initiative: Actively participate in identifying changes in technology, processes, and procedures that improve team and company effectiveness and performance
- Self Discipline: Staying focused, motivated, organized, and present in a remote work environment, managing time effectively, adhering to schedules, avoiding distractions
- Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate technical information to non-technical stakeholders
- Team Player: Strong team collaboration skills and the ability to work effectively in a collaborative environment
- Continuous Learning: A commitment to staying updated with the latest AWS services and industry best practices
Benefits
- Hybrid, remote-office work arrangement
- Annual performance-based incentive opportunity
- Comprehensive benefits package for eligible employees, including health insurance, 401(k) retirement benefits, life insurance, disability benefits, and paid time off
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