Cloud Engineer

UMB's Enterprise Cloud Architect team was recently formed to streamline and accelerate adoption of the Cloud. The team provides self-service means to empower other teams to deploy cloud-native platforms while ensuring security, governance, architectural best-practice, cost containment, and control. The team works to provide architecture, tools, services, knowledge, support, organization structure, and operating model arranged as a compelling product.

As a Cloud Engineer , you will be heavily participating in defining the organization's cloud platform strategy, designing enterprise cloud solutions, and enabling cloud adoption across the business. This involves combining architecture vision with hands-on cloud engineering to align technical decisions with business objectives and regulatory requirements. This is a subset of the overall responsibilities which will include multiple initiatives as assigned by IT leadership.

This role is hybrid (Mon through Thu on-site / Fri remote) at the UMB Technology & Operations Center located in downtown Kansas City, MO.

How you will spend your time:

• Participate in defining enterprise cloud strategy (AWS), reference architectures, and design patterns.

• Involved in hands-on building of AWS environments.

• Design and implement CI/CD pipelines (Terraform)

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field or equivalent combination of education and work experience.

• At least 5 years of experience in designing and implementing cloud architecture (AWS) for enterprise environments.

• Following technical skills:

• Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform)

• AWS Cloud platform

• AWS Cloud security, identity, and compliance (i.e. IAM, VPC, etc.)

• AWS Network fundamentals (i.e. VPC design, routing, NLB, ALB, API_GW, etc.)

• Containerization (i.e. Docker)

• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to translate technical concepts for diverse audiences.

• Strategic thinker mindset balancing delivery with long-term vision.

• Proficiency in Agile/Scrum.

Bonus Points if you have:

• AWS Solutions Architect Professional Certification, AWS DevOps Engineer Professional Certification, or any additional cloud certifications

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