A financial firm is looking for a Cloud/DevOps Engineer to join their team. This role is remote. 

Pay: $135-140/hr 

-USC Only
-Key aspects of the role: IaC pattern development/curation
-Day to Day Expectations: Agile ceremonies, Collaborate and Develop IaC patterns with Terraform

Responsibilities:
· Engage with architects, application development teams and technical support teams to achieve success in migrating on-prem applications to AWS by developing infrastructure as code solutions.
· Work with business partners, architects, and other groups to identify technical and functional needs of systems, and determine priority of needs.
· Collaborate with performing teams to deliver new capabilities in business applications and/or remediate issues.
· Analyze, define and document requirements for data, workflow, and logical processes.
· Analyze and translate business, information and technical requirements to create patterns for solutions that integrate across applications, systems and platforms to achieve business objectives.
· Assess foundational services, integration services, cloud operations and management capabilities.
· Champion, communicate and rationalize approaches with business leaders, organization management and within teams to develop structured outcome of proof of fit/proof of concept.
· Establish the direction for application development approaches, including tools, process and frameworks.
· Support preparation of documentation including application designs, Assessments, Security Management, Implementation Plans and post implementation documentation.
· Lead by example, demonstrating high performance in the areas of customer satisfaction, collaboration, teamwork, and reliability.
· Participate in the establishment of local standards, patterns, and practices for cloud integration, while providing input and influence to broader organizational standards and initiatives.
· Spearhead use of innovative new technology and best practices for new product and solution development initiatives.
· Participate in IT strategy development, including environmental analysis, opportunity identification, business cases, business innovation, and portfolio development.
· Responsible for the planning and engineering of an organization's systems infrastructure. Includes the implementation and design of hardware and software.

Qualifications:
· AWS Certification (Certified Developer or Solutions Architect).
· 2 years of experience in Agile.
· 3 years of experience in deploying Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform.
· 3 years of experience in deploying cloud-based solutions.
· 2 years of experience in deploying hybrid cloud-based solutions.
· Bachelors degree from an accredited college or university with specialization in an Information Technology field, or an equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
· Minimum eight years of information technology experience directly related to infrastructure engineering (compute, storage, network) of which 2 years focused on cloud architecture, design, and implementation.
· Excellent oral and written communication, presentation, leadership, interpersonal, collaborative/relationship-building, organizational & planning, and analytical & problem-solving skills.

•Demonstrated experience being part of a high velocity DevOps team
•Practical articulation of IaC - thorough knowledge and practical experience implementing container management concepts and practices using OCP, Kubernetes, and Docker
• Highly proficient in Terraform and CloudFormation
• Cloud-native Architecture: Well Architected Framework, 12 Factor App, Cloud Reference Architectures, Cloud Service Models, Microservices architecture, Serverless architecture
• Cloud Security: Shared Security Model, Cloud Security Architecture, IAM policies/roles, WAF, OWASP Web/API, SAML, vulnerabilities and compensating controls (CSP, CSRF, XSS, SQLI) etc.
• Cloud-native Services: Optimization of applications to scalable cloud designs, designing, arch and integration of applications to modern cloud patterns
• Containerization (Docker) and container orchestration (Docker Swarm, Kubernetes), Infrastructure as Code • Cloud-native monitoring, logging - ELK, Splunk, CloudWatch, amongst others
• Well-versed in Agile software development practices & ability to contribute to sprint ceremonies such as, Refinement, Planning, Review, Retrospectives & knowledge of JIRA software tool
• Well-versed in Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) practices, automated testing, Automated code quality scanning, and Automated Deployments. ex: Deploy XL , Deploy Release, Subversion, Jenkins
• Demonstrated experience in mentorship and serving as technical subject matter expert (SME) for a development team

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