Cloud Infrastructure Engineer -W2 ONLY

We are seeking a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer who currently resides in Texas. Preferred: within 1 hour of Austin, Texas. Must be on our W2, and we are unable to work with any C2Cs or provide any sponsorship.

Operations- AI & Application Platform for Excellence (APEX), hub-and-spoke, cloud infrastructure on Azure and AWS flavors. This position joins our client's APEX team and focuses on APEX cloud services (IaaS, PaaS, and serverless). This position will build, implement, configure, monitor, administer, and secure cloud services (IaaS, PaaS, and serverless), and support steady-state cloud operations and migrations for our client’s Data Center Operations APEX team. This supports migrating and supporting applications intended for migration to supported cloud providers.

Key skills and traits our client needs:

· Deep expertise in cloud network design principles (Segmentation, HA, Least Privilege, Stability, Debugging, and Security).

· Deep expertise in Azure and AWS cloud services (IaaS, PaaS, Serverless).

· Proficiency with Terraform, Ansible, YAML/JSON, and scripting (Bash, PowerShell, Cloud CLI).

· Strong experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and microservices deployment.

· Knowledge of cloud monitoring tools (CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Dynatrace, Sysdig).

· Experience with cloud data services and DR strategies.

· Understanding security, compliance, and cost optimization in cloud environments.

· Highly organized, detail-oriented, and effective at communicating with both technical and non-technical teams.

Requirements:

Minimum of 5+ years of experience

· Ability to clearly explain and apply foundational cloud network design principles, including Segmentation, High Availability (HA), least-privilege access controls, Stability, Debugging, and Network Security.

· Knowledge and experience in solutioning, configuring, integrating, and securing cloud networking and cloud service models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, Serverless) in Azure and/or AWS.

· Experience and understanding of cloud computing DevOps principles, Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD).

· Experience with Containerization, deploying and configuring microservices.

· Kubernetes architecture deployment, scaling, and maintenance.

· Proficient automation skill set using a combination of command-line scripting (Bash, Korn, PowerShell, Cloud CLI, Kubernetes Helm) and third-party tools.

· Experience with declarative and imperative languages (YAML, JSON, Ruby, HCL, etc.) and tools that are leveraged (Ansible, Docker, Terraform, etc) to leverage infrastructure-as-code (IaC).

· Experience with cloud and performance monitoring, auditing, logging, and operations tools such as: Sysdig Secure (CNAPP), Dynatrace, Cloud native toolsets (AWS CloudWatch, Google Cloud Platform Cloud Operations, Azure Monitor, OCI Monitoring, etc.).

· Experience and knowledge of cloud recovery strategies for storage replication, automated recovery plans, and protecting data for cloud disaster recovery.

· Knowledge and/or hands-on experience with cloud database services (Rational/NoSQL and SQL/Oracle), data lakes, and cloud ETL/ELT best practices, suitable frameworks for handling all types of data for structured and unstructured information.

· Understanding cloud services like Azure Data Factory, OCI Data Integrator, Google Data Fusion, AWS Kinesis, DataSync, and DataSync.

· Experience and understanding of best practices for optimizing IT cloud infrastructure, tracing, and troubleshooting, aligning with standards, policy, and IT information security controls.

· Effective written and oral communication

Preferred

· One or more Cloud certifications for Azure, AWS, Google or Oracle Certified Engineer, Cloud Certified Solutions Architect, Data Architect, DevOps Engineer and/or equivalent work experience

· Experience in solutioning, configuring, integrating, and securing cloud networking and cloud service models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, Serverless).

· Highly organized, responsive, and highly detailed problem solver.

· Worked for or have experience with Texas Health and Human Services Commission or other Texas state IT agencies.