Senior Cloud Engineer

About the Job

An ideal candidate for this role has operated in one or more roles at a large scale environment as well as a wide exposure to a number of relevant cloud technologies including AWS, Azure and GCP. They should have experience in multiple programming languages with a deep understanding of at least one.

Consulting experience and leadership/mentorship experience is also very important, as both the customer and our team will look to you for best practices. A successful candidate will have the ability to think on their feet and respond to customer questions on the fly. Additionally, you’ve used a few different sets of monitoring software and understand how to utilize them in the context of SRE and DevOps principles.

You stay relevant and aren’t stuck in old ways; we need to be able to adapt to a customer whether they are using COBOL or the bleeding edge version of something completely new.

What You'll Do

• Understand a customer’s core problem, identify tradeoffs and propose solutions
• Communicate complex technical issues to audiences of various technical knowledge
• Troubleshoot complicated systems with little-to-no context
• Debug code, read source-code, google how to fix issues off the cuff
• Teach the team advanced principles, new technologies, techniques etc.
• Be a key point of escalation for others on technical issues
• Create repeatable patterns using configuration management and documentation
• Maintain a strong desire to be actively involved with the rest of the team and ensure the success of multiple projects

Who You Are

• You can work comfortably in a variety of operating systems
• Time management and context switching skills
• Ability and desire to learn on-the-fly and teach people at the same time
• Experience in cloud platforms with a deep knowledge of at least one
• Variety of programming experience with deep knowledge in at least one language
• Understanding of modern technologies like Kubernetes, services meshes, cloud networking and serverless/PaaS/SaaS technologies
• Previous consulting or mentoring/leadership experience
• Broad experience in monitoring tools
• Understand how to manage infrastructure and configuration in a coded steady state (IAC)

It's Also Going to Help If You Have

• Datadog experience
• Kubernetes experience
• API design
• Public speaking skills and confidence, ability to identify new opportunities, persuade and steer customers to follow best practices
• Experience with auxiliary technologies such as IP address management and inventory
• Expertise in a specific area, like relational or non-relational databases, caching, distributed data systems, etc. Something you could talk to or teach in-depth
• Experience using common infrastructure configuration management tools (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, SSM, etc)

Benefits

• 100% Employee Healthcare Coverage (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• Retirement Plan (5% 401k Match, IRA)
• Unlimited Paid Time Off (4-week minimum) (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
• Family Leave (Maternity, Paternity)
• Hybrid Work Opportunities
• Fitness & Commuter Subsidies available
• Equity
• Relocation Assistance
• SL & LT Disability
• Visa Sponsorship