Our client, a pioneer in Digital Health is looking for a Cloud Engineer to join on a contract basis, with the opportunity to go full-time. The Cloud Engineer is tasked with designing, implementing, automating, deploying, and managing production-grade services across multiple cloud providers and infrastructure platforms for the organization, its clients, and partners. This role collaborates with different teams to ensure infrastructure requirements are met for various departments, including Information Services, Privacy & Security, Engineering, Product, Client Support, and Delivery.
Responsibilities:
- Design, implement, automate, deploy, and operate production-grade services on various cloud platforms and infrastructure vendors.
- Collaborate with multiple teams to ensure infrastructure needs are met across various departments such as Information Services, Privacy & Security, Engineering, Product, Client Support, and Delivery.
- Provide expertise and recommendations related to cloud and platform provisioning to support internal and external projects.
- Participate in infrastructure deployments, offering subject matter expertise on cloud components.
- Develop and maintain infrastructure code for different solutions, providing support to clients and partners as needed.
- Maintain technical documentation, standard operating procedures, implementation plans, and root cause analyses to support business needs.
- Participate in planning for technology implementations and transformations, including assessments, proof of concepts, and technology roadmaps.
- Leverage innovative cloud technologies to improve operations, security, and maintenance.
- Take part in on-call rotations for application and infrastructure support, incident management, and troubleshooting as needed.
- Accurately track and report working hours, ensuring proper usage of the project management tool for both billable and non-billable tasks.
- Comply with privacy, security, and confidentiality policies.
Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience in IT, DevOps, infrastructure maintenance, system administration, cloud development, platform engineering, and/or automation development.
- 3+ years of experience supporting and developing templates and code for Kubernetes services, including HELM, Kustomize, and Kubernetes manifests.
- 2+ years of experience in a role supporting and maintaining critical infrastructure, troubleshooting escalations, and ensuring key performance metrics are met.
- Deep knowledge of cloud services and hands-on experience building critical infrastructure from scratch.
- Proven experience with Kubernetes and serverless infrastructure, including building new clusters and migrating applications.
- Proficiency in scripting and programming languages like Powershell, Python, and Bash.
- Experience translating architecture and technical requirements into cloud infrastructure.
- Intermediate certifications in Cloud services (AWS, Azure, GCP) required; professional-level certifications preferred.
- Kubernetes-related certifications such as CKA, CKD, and CKS.
- Broad experience with core infrastructure technologies, including security, networking, databases, data streaming, deployment automation, monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work closely with clients.
- Demonstrated experience in maintaining comprehensive technical documentation, procedures, and standards.