Principal Cloud Engineer - TEKsystems

Top Skills' Details

**This is a Sr. level cloud engineer position**

**This is a hybrid position, on-site in the North Hills location 3 days/week. Once converted, they will be on-site 4 days/week.**

1) Need strong experience in Azure Core services, VM's, Vnet, Functions, ability to create environments for development teams

2) Experience with Terraform, automating infrastructure deployments, creating and editing new templates

3) Experience leveraging CI/CD tooling like Jenkins and Azure devops, to help deploy application and experience deploying applications into containers

Description:

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class:

The Infrastructure Technology & Shared Services organization is a component of Advance Auto Parts’ Information Technology function. This team is responsible for all elements of Infrastructure Technology Architecture and Engineering from defining the overall enterprise infrastructure architecture to its ongoing operations and governance with the goal of ensuring the IT function operates as effectively and efficiently as possible. This organization has a direct impact on Advance Auto Parts’ ability to introduce business capabilities at a pace that enables Advance Auto Part’s Mission of having a “Passion for Customers. Passion for Yes”.

The Principal Cloud Core Infrastructure Engineer will help design and implement our core cloud infrastructure environment as we re-platform our traditional on-premises application stack to one that is modern, and cloud based. You will be empowered to innovate and lead the definition of the cloud infrastructure standards, automation, and processes that will enable product teams to release features anytime in a secure and agile manner. To accomplish our goals the successful candidate will act as a SME for our infrastructure, security and application development teams on cloud architecture and principles for continuous delivery in the cloud.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Responsible for developing and implementing cloud infrastructure architectures.

• Experience with establishing cloud strategy and architecture at an enterprise level.

• Experience leading large-scale Azure migrations and Azure Cloud project delivery, i.e., responsible for specific project deliverables, technical and architecture oversight, project delivery approach, delivery performance - working with delivery and PM teams.

• Provide subject matter expertise on cloud architecture and cloud infrastructure engineering to other IT and business teams.

• Collaborates with various teams across the organizations including Product Management, Architecture, Software Engineering and Infrastructure to operationalize DevOps processes and tools.

• Interpret technical requirements into business requirements and communicate risks to relevant stakeholders ranging from business leaders to engineers.

• Provide succinct diagrams such as high-level design and low-level design documents and workflows and able to present to senior leadership as well as technical teams.

• Work with Reliability Engineering teams to implement cloud specific monitoring tools.

• Work through the project life cycle from design, implementation, cutover, hyper care and operation transition.

• Participate in problem solving, troubleshooting and level 3 engineering support of infrastructure and applications as needed.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent combination of relevant education, training and experience

• 7+ years in Infrastructure Cloud Infrastructure and Software Engineering.

• Experience with the IAC (Infrastructure as Code) implementation and automation

• Deep understanding of Azure (preferred) and/ or AWS experience is required.

• Strong knowledge of various aspects of CI/CD practices: Infrastructure Automation, Application Build and Deployment Automation using various leading tools.

• Understanding of Docker/Kubernetes for managing container-based images, their deployment via Kubernetes base

• d services, DNS/DDI, networking management

• Knowledge and experience with OpenShift in Azure and AWS is desired.

• Knowledge and experience of Terraform/Ansible, GIT based products (GitHub, Bitbucket), Jenkins, etc., for building pipeline.

• Experience with network design including segmentation models, encryption, logging and monitoring.

• Experience with network topologies, load balancing and micro segmentation.

• Experience with firewalls, WAF’s, proxies, IDS/IPS, network authentication controls, and Linux and Windows operating systems.

• Experience with Networking concepts (NAT, DNS, routing, etc.).

• Understanding of cloud security architectures for cloud/hybrid systems.

• Experience with logging and monitoring tools such as Splunk, New Relic, Logstash, CloudTrail.

• Strong troubleshooting skills a must.

• Strong analytical and communication skills.

• Excellent communication, presentation, architectural articulation and leadership skills.

• Experience leading and working with diverse geographically distributed teams.

• Be able to work with teams with varying levels of technical backgrounds and experiences

Preferred Certifications:

Azure / AWS architect level preferred, administration level minimum

Skills:

Cloud, Aws, Azure, Devops, Automation, Terraform

Top Skills Details:

Cloud,Aws,Azure,Devops,Automation

Additional Skills & Qualifications:

Overview of position? What is the story- They have a team, they call it the core infrastructure engineering- mainly supporting the projects, the new initiatives, projects for other people who work as a level 3 or 4 on the day to day ops. From a technology standpoint, they have azure, AWS, those are the main things. This particular role, the core cloud engineer infrastructure team is basically setting up the cloud environment that enables their working model. DevOps teams take care of their applications, they do whatever they have to do, creating an environment and enabling them to do what they need to do comes from this team. They create networking for them, create resource groups, security groups, where to put connectivity in place, so on and so forth. Because this role is working in the cloud, in a leadership role, when the application team comes to them, this particular engineer would need to provide suggestions, on how to do what they need it to do. This is what they need, this is what it's going to take, estimate it from a man hours perspective, there's a design level to it. From a terraform perspective, they're be writing/creating from scratch and be able to use pre-existing templates as well. From a scripting standpoint, they're open.

Experience Level:

Expert Level

o  Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification

and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to

specific elections, plan, or program terms.  If eligible, the benefits

available for this temporary role may include the following: 

§  Medical, dental & vision 

§  Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital 

§  401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available 

§  Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents) 

§  Short and long-term disability 

§  Health Spending Account (HSA) 

§  Transportation benefits 

§  Employee Assistance Program 

§  Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave) 

About TEKsystems:

We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.