Cloud Engineer

Cloud Engineer – IT Infrastructure Design

This role supports compliance and oversight requirements for the Cloud Platform Engineering team. The engineer will be responsible for ensuring cloud services meet internal control standards and will contribute to the design and documentation of cloud controls.

Key responsibilities include:

• Cloud Service Enablement:
• Understand applicable controls for cloud services
• Review cloud service implementations via Terraform code or PAC
• Document control implementations
• Track and manage open findings
• Cloud Controls:
• Assist in designing cloud controls
• Create process flows and documentation
• Support resolution of control-related findings

Required skills and experience:

• Experience with Azure and/or AWS
• Proficiency in Terraform and/or Python
• Strong understanding of risk management and control design
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
• 7+ years in risk assessment and control
• 8+ years in IT environments

Preferred qualifications:

• Deep knowledge of risk management and control design
• Experience in project management, strategic planning, and analytics
• Familiarity with IT standards, governance, audit, and compliance
• Relevant certifications: CISSP, CISA, CRISC, CISM
• Cloud certifications (AWS or Azure)
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Ability to interact with all levels of management

Interview process:

• Rounds: 2
• Format: Video interviews
• Technical Depth: No coding required, but candidates must have prior coding experience to review and provide insights on code

Top three skills:

• Azure and/or AWS experience
• Terraform and/or Python
• Risk management and control design concepts

Basic qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience
• Nine or more years of experience with the processes, tools, and techniques for assessing and controlling an organization's exposure to risk.
• Six or more years of experience with a total Information Technology (IT) environment
• Two or more years of management experience

Team and project specific details:

We are looking for a candidate who has an interest in back end development, devOps, ETL, and cloud engineering. We are specifically looking for a candidate who has experience with GCP and/or AWS. We would like the candidate to have experience with ETL using the service catalogue offerings of either AWS or GCP.

Team Digital Triplet manages the data lake, modeling, and a number of cloud accounts associated with various LIMS instances. Digital Triplet will be creating a pipeline between AWS and a (new to Bayer) data warehouse in Google Big Query, configuring multiple accounts, and investigating new technologies that we could utilize to more efficiently manage the lake, ETL, and reporting capabilities for our users and for our full stack development teams. We are looking for a candidate that wants to continuously improve by introducing new ideas, tools, and solutions to this space.

Seven or more years of experience in solving challenging technical problems in two or more of the following areas:

• Single page web application development
• Unix/Linux environment management
• Cloud based continuous delivery and environment management
• Micro-service design and development
• Large, distributed system development
• Software security
• Processing and analyzing large data sets
• ETL
• Data Modeling
• Data Engineering

Key tasks and responsibilities:

• Practical experience and knowledge of industry practices.
• Expertise in at least one technology or facet of product development (research, design, programming, testing)
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Collaborate daily with your Team of Engineers, Product Manager, Product Specialists, and Agile Coach to build and support applications.
• Work with team and Product Manager to manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
• Interact directly with business customers to gather and understand requirements and how they translate in technical solutions and implementations
• Develop applications and services for projects owned by the team using the latest tools and technologies
• Deploy applications across all environments in collaboration with engineering team and Product Management
• Perform unit and integration testing where applicable
• Conduct functional and non-functional testing
• Troubleshoot and debug data pipeline
• Evaluate existing implementations and identify opportunities to automate, refactor, update and add new features
• Develop any technical documentation needed to accurately represent implementation
• Help to shape the vision for their own team's products and those of related teams, taking into account impacts, dependencies, and opportunities to collaborate with other teams and groups
• Develop effective relationships & communicate within team, with Product Management, and with customers to increase the overall quality of products owned by the team and across related teams.
• Identify opportunities to develop new and better solutions.
• Anticipate and address technical and organizational obstacles affecting own team and related teams.
• Provide guidance and mentoring for technical design and architecture decisions within the team and related teams.
• Identify and pursue opportunities to improve own knowledge and skills and those of more junior developers.

Bonus experience:

• Experience with SRE or Observability

Teams that you collaborate with utilize this tech stack:

• React
• NodeJS
• ES6 Javascript
• Express/REST
• Mocha or Jest
• AWS: S3, EC2, Lambda, SQS, Codebuild, Postgresql, Mongo Atlas, DynamoDB, Cloudformation