Enterprise Cloud Engineer
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We are seeking a Senior Enterprise Cloud Engineer to help design, build, secure, and operate VUMC's cloud environments-primarily AWS, with GCP as a secondary platform. In this role, you'll provide technical leadership across cloud engineering and operations, enable application teams through automation and self-service, and help establish standards that improve security, reliability, and scalability.
You'll work closely with engineering and application teams to support both cloud migrations and new cloud-native development, while promoting consistent governance, best practices, and DevSecOps patterns across the organization., * Design and implement secure cloud solutions aligned with rapid and secure development principles.
- Build and evolve cloud infrastructure delivery strategies, including standards, processes, technologies, and tools.
- Translate business needs into cloud solutions by understanding cloud use cases and making practical architectural recommendations.
- Create automation and self-service capabilities for application development teams.
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) modules and tooling using software engineering best practices.
- Support cloud platforms through engineering, administration, troubleshooting, analysis, trending, and reporting.
- Build and support cloud infrastructure for new applications and microservices as workloads shift to AWS/GCP.
- Partner with development teams to evaluate requirements and recommend implementation, deployment, and provisioning approaches.
- Develop enablement tools such as:
- CI/CD pipelines
- Container scheduling solutions
- Custom engineering utilities and applications
- Perform ongoing system reviews and recommend improvements to security, performance, cost, and operational maturity.
- Stay current with commercial and open-source DevSecOps tools, architectures, and practices.
- Coach and review the work of other engineers, contributing to team capability growth.
- Collaborate in a team environment using practices like peer coding, design reviews, and code reviews.
Requirements
- Strong hands-on cloud engineering experience with AWS (primary); working knowledge of GCP (secondary).
- Proven experience creating automated, repeatable solutions using PowerShell.
- Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code and building reusable modules and patterns.
- Solid understanding of and experience working within an SDLC using GitHub, including:
- Branching strategies
- Pull requests
- Code reviews
- CI/CD workflows
- Demonstrated ability to deliver in a collaborative engineering environment (peer coding, architecture/design sessions, shared ownership)., You should have demonstrated experience applying best practices for cloud governance, including:
AWS governance
- Establishing and managing AWS Organizations
- Implementing AWS Control Tower
- Setting up and managing Budgets / cost controls
GCP governance
- Establishing and managing Projects
- Implementing Folders / hierarchy
- Applying Policies
- Setting up and managing Budgets / cost controls