Platform/Cloud Engineer

Platform/Cloud Engineer

Location: Atlanta, Charlotte or Raleigh (onsite)

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

Following is a summary of the essential functions for this job. Other duties may be performed, both major and minor, which are not mentioned below. Specific activities may change from time to time.

1. Help design, estimate and architect the specific needs, working closely with Vendors where applicable, Infrastructure Architects, Solution Architects and other Tech Leads.
2. Take guidance and direction from more senior platform engineer members of the team, as well as Manager this role will report to directly.
3. Determine needs and coordinate requests for Network, Storage, Capacity and Security specifications, working with the engineers from those areas to successful completion in all environments.
4. Provide Troubleshooting Support in all environments, Performance Testing and Tuning Support and Production Implementation support.
5. Ensure the aligned Production Support Team is kept informed and updated so they are ready to take over the support of the application when fully implemented.
6. Ensure Install documentation, Playbook documentation and Runbook documentation is up to date, as well as review and provide inputs on Design documentation and Architectural documentation.
7. Participate in Implementation Strategy Planning, providing inputs where needed, especially for tasks that will be performed by this role.
8. Ensure Monitoring is at the appropriate level in all necessary environments.
9. Liaise with DevSecOps Center for Enablement (C4E) to ensure that Enterprise tools or practices are followed, and to share information about any team specific tools or practices that may benefit others.
10. Liaise with Cloud teams to ensure that Enterprise tools or practices are followed and to share information about any team specific tools or practices that may benefit others.
11. Develop deep relationships with Enterprise Solutions Platform teams at all levels, Enterprise Solutions Production Support Teams at all levels, CT&O team counterparts, and others as needed to successfully navigate project efforts.

Qualifications

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

1. Bachelor's degree in Business or Computer Science and five+ years of experience in software engineering or IT including at least two years of experience in a role in which the primary responsibility is installation and configuration of applications, application design or architecture design.

2. Experience in Windows architecture and SQL Server, Linux servers and AIX servers (a plus)

3. Exposure to, knowledge of: Cloud architecture and application introduction; CICD Pipeline; Databases (SQL, DB2, Oracle)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working in Agile teams and knowledge of Agile development & release practices.
• Experience/knowledge of: SAFe, Enterprise Scrum, Kanban, Rally, etc.
• Experience as a member of an application and/or infrastructure delivery team
• Experience/Knowledge of deploying and configuring infrastructure and application software (including ancillary software, i.e. TomCat, Access DB, MS 365 Runtime)