Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Job Description Template
Our company is looking for a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to join our team.
Responsibilities:
- Conduct periodic on call duties;
- Facilitate security automation by working with cloud service provider APIs, SDKs, and custom source code;
- Experience in Building and managing Virtualized systems (KVM, OVM, Containers/Docker) and ability to read and understand source code;
- Working knowledge of information security issues;
- Design, creation, and provisioning of infrastructure;
- Design, build, manage and operate the infrastructure and configuration of SaaS applications with a focus on automation and infrastructure as code;
- Deploy and maintain applications;
- Systematic problem-solving approach, combined with a strong sense of ownership and drive;
- Make infrastructure recommendations to Cognizant Accelerator development teams;
- Solid experience using configuration management frameworks (e.g. Chef, Puppet);
- Working knowledge of web and network protocols and standards (HTTP, TLS, DNS, etc);
- Validate and provide security hardening guidance of cloud-based services;
- Collaborate with other engineers to implement operational solutions while defining, adhering to industry best practices;
- Evaluate performance trends and expected changes in demand and capacity, and establish the appropriate scalability plans;
- Design and build enterprise cloud solutions that meet Cognizant Accelerators’ customer needs in automation, monitoring, and DevSecOps.
Requirements:
- Knowledge of systems monitoring, capacity planning, and performance tuning;
- Experience being an administrator on a variety of Linux distributions;
- Experience delivering immutable infrastructure-as-code solutions using tools like Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Salt, and Packer;
- Strong working knowledge of VMware, KVM, Xen, Hyper-V, or other virtualization software;
- Experience with information security practices and procedures;
- Proven experience and understanding of architecture principles across infrastructure platforms, security, data, integration, and application layers;
- Experience with alerting and monitoring tools;
- Experience working in a highly distributed company is a plus;
- Experience with Prometheus/Grafana for metrics aggregation/visualization;
- Demonstrated knowledge of the ELK stack;
- Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management tools;
- Experience with Terraform is a plus;
- Configuration of CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins;
- Experience with automation tools/platforms;
- Align a portion of your day with the business hours of Pacific Time Zone – UTC -8.