Lead Cloud Engineer, SRE - Aptean

Job Title: Lead Cloud Engineer, SRE

Location: Onsite, Alpharetta, GA

Aptean is changing. Our ERP solutions are transforming a huge range of global businesses, from food producers to manufacturers. In a world of generic enterprise software, we provide targeted solutions that bring together the very best technology and drive greater results. With over 3000 employees, 50 different products and a global client base, there’s no better time to advance your career at Aptean.

Are you ready for what’s next, now? We are! If being part of a dynamic, high growth organization excites you and you are Senior Infrastructure Cloud Engineer, and eager to learn and grow, then this opportunity is for you! Our fast-paced environment and dynamic global Engineering department is eager for a mover and shaker to step into this role and become an integral part of our team. 

About the role

The Lead Cloud Engineer is primarily responsible for being a technical lead with hands-on while possessing a high standard of excellence, solid written and verbal communication skills, strong customer focus, and capable of technical deep dives into services and technologies.  Responsibilities will include governance, support, and the integration and growth of our Cloud infrastructure. Additional responsibilities to include architecting, planning, specifying, and building new solutions. This role includes implementing,  planning, risk management, collaboration with technical and engineering teams to further improve our systems stability and minimize solution downtime impact.

Key Responsibilities

• Provision and monitor staging/production cloud services
• Deploy, maintain, and troubleshoot cloud services
• Apply OS, application, and hardware updates/patches
• Monitor and maintain backups and recovery operations/services
• Implement and manage virtual networking
• Create and configure a Network Security Group
• Monitor and troubleshoot virtual networking
• Integrate on-premises network with Azure virtual network
• Working in rotational shifts as we are a 24/7 support team.
• Manage Application deployments in the cloud

Qualification requirements

• Must be a US Citizen or Green Card Holder 
• Must be located (or willing to relocate to) the metro Atlanta area. 
• Total of 7+ years of experience in cloud administration
• Hands-on experience with either AWS or Azure Architecture on services like computing, storage,
• Databases, network, application integration, monitoring & alerting, Identity & Access Management.
• Knowledge of Web Servers, Windows / Linux Services / OS Security
• Experience in topics such as network protocols TCP, DNS, DHCP, SSL, VPN
• Has worked on Virtualization & Windows/Linux administration
• Has knowledge of Active Directory administration / Azure AAD
• Understanding of Cloud Storage / Storage security / IAM etc.
• Certifications: Azure Administrator / AWS Associate Solution Architect
• Familiar with Azure services such as Load Balancers, application gateways, Scale Sets, CRR, Azure vaults, AKS
• Familiar with IaC(Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, PowerShell, etc..)(Desired)

Nice to have

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Good communication skills
• Good personal computer and business solutions software skills
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team

If you share our mindset, you can share in our success. To find out more about joining Aptean, get in touch today.

Learn from our differences. Celebrate our diversity. Grow and succeed together.

Aptean pledges to promote a company culture where diversity, equity and inclusion are central. We are committed to applying this principle as we interact with our customers, build our teams, cultivate our leaders and shape a company in which any employee can succeed, regardless of race, color, sex, national origin, sexuality and gender identity, religion, disability, age, status as a protected veteran or any other group status protected by law. Celebrating our diverse experiences, opinions and beliefs allows us to embrace what makes us unique and to use this as an asset in bringing innovative solutions to our customer base.

“At Aptean, our global and diverse employee base is our greatest asset. It is through embracing and understanding our differences that we are able to harness our individual power to maximize the success of our customers, our employees and our company.” – TVN Reddy