Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. AAA-The Auto Club Group provides membership, travel, insurance, and financial services through its AAA, Meemic, and Fremont brands. The Senior Cloud Engineer serves as a subject matter expert on enterprise infrastructure projects and leads the adoption of DevOps methodologies, cloud-based solutions, and Agile infrastructure practices. The role designs, implements, secures, scales, and supports cloud platforms and infrastructure while driving process improvements and organizational adoption.
Responsibilities
- Promote and provide expert guidance to teams on Agile development and Agile infrastructure principles and practices including: + Infrastructure as Code + Provisioning + Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment + Test automation
- Focus on future cloud-based technology growth options to support organizational maturity
- Plan, design, implement, and educate on DevOps tools, practices and usage, Cloud based platforms (AWS and GCP)
- Provide leadership to the organization to identify and remove infrastructure and system level impediments which limit productivity and quality
- Identify and implement process improvements which support and complement DevOps methodologies and Cloud usage
- Track and provide feedback to teams and organizations on DevOps adoption
- Provide direction for and design solutions for infrastructure, security, deployment, scaling, metrics, and IT operations
- Conduct technology reviews and internal audits to ensure existing solutions meet business and security needs
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field or an equivalent level of work experience
- 8+ years of experience in overseeing mission critical enterprise level systems
- 8 years of experience working with virtual machines, virtual networking, and storage using a third party infrastructure
- Experience with infrastructure s code implementation and developing Cloudformation templates
- Production experience with developing and employing GCP and/or AWS cloud services with strong understanding of the implementation, best practices, and usage of at least the following core services:
- IAM
- Networking (VPC, interconnectivity, load balancing, and DNS)
- Compute (VMs and containers)
- Storage (managed relational and nosql databases, object store, file store, etc)
- KMS
- Encryption in transit
- 5+ years' experience administering and troubleshooting Linux based systems
- 2+ years' experience with Docker
- Broad experience developing cloud migrating solutions
- Experience installing, configuring, and troubleshooting middleware including Nginx, Apache HTTP, Jetty, Tomcat
- Proven ability to fully work through project life-cycle, (i.e., discovery, analysis, architecture, design, documentation, building, migration, automation, readiness)
- Able to configure and install relational databases
- Installing and configuring monitoring and metrics collections solutions for server resources, middleware, and custom applications - Nagios, Cacti, Ganglia, CollectD, Graphite, and or NewRelic
- Load and performance testing and analysis
- Scripting experience - Python and Bash
- AWS Certification a plus
- Primary focus on Google Cloud
- Production AWS support
- Hybrid and multi-cloud architecture
- Security engineering
- Cloud platform design and troubleshooting
- Secure cloud platform design
- Multi-region architecture
- High availability patterns
- Cloud observability
- Production support patterns
- Cloud troubleshooting
Benefits
- Annual bonus potential, based on performance.
- Medical plans with multiple coverage options, including HSA eligibility.
- Prescription drug coverage.
- Dental and vision benefits.
- Employee Assistance Program (confidential support services).
- Company-paid basic life insurance.
- Optional supplemental life insurance and dependent coverage.
- Short-term and long-term disability coverage.
- Critical illness, accident, and pet insurance options.
- 401(k) plan to support long-term financial goals.
- 3% automatic deferral upon eligibility; may contribute 1% to 50% of eligible earnings, either pre or post tax.
- Company match of 50% paid on employee contributions up to 6% of pay, payable to employees following the end of the year; immediate vesting.
- Additional company contribution of 4% of pay each pay day into your account; 100% vested after three (3) years of service.
- Health Savings Account (HSA) and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) options.
- Paid Time Off (PTO): Accrual-based, increases with tenure, eligible at 90 days of employment.
- Full-time new employees will receive up to 12 PTO days annually; accrual based on start date and may include additional PTO based on role and/or state & local requirements.
- Part-time employee PTO hours are calculated based upon the standard weekly hours the employee is scheduled to work and will accrue at a minimum of 3 hours per month.
- Full-time employees are eligible for 10 company-paid holidays annually, in addition to 1 mental health day, 2 floating holidays and 1 volunteer day.
- Part-time employees are eligible for 8 company-paid holidays annually, in addition to 1 mental health day and 2 floating holidays.
- Paid leave programs, including parental, bereavement, jury duty, and military leave.
- Tuition assistance (up to $5,250 annually; 80% covered by ACG).
- Professional certification support with 100% reimbursement for eligible programs.
- Opportunities for career development and advancement.
- Complimentary AAA membership with roadside assistance and travel discounts.
- Adoption assistance program.
- This position is currently able to work remotely from a home office location for day-to-day operations unless occasional travel for meetings, collaborative activities, or team building activities is specified by leadership.
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