Job Description

The Senior Cloud Engineer position is an individual contributor role. He/she will work as an interface between Developers, Business, Operations, and Support staff. He/she is passionate about designing and developing Cloud solutions. The position requires senior-level proficiency in cloud-technologies, hands-on coding skills, and the ability to translate high-level business requirements into technology execution.

What we are looking for in our candidate:

• Use DevOps/Agile as the core philosophy for Cloud Infrastructure Provisioning/Configuration/Delivery.
• Agile software delivery process using AzureDevops (including breaking down work into modular tasks, updating/tracking task status/work log entries for sprint management), Stash/Git (source code management including branching strategy, code review),
• Expertise and hands-on working with Ansible (auto-configuration using zero-downtime application deployment techniques).
• Expertise and hands-on working with Cloud Providers: AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Expertise and hands-on working with Terraform or any other IAC framework.
• Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs
• Proactively communicate and collaborate with internal customers to analyze information needs and functional requirements and deliver the following artifacts as needed: Functional/Business Requirements, High-Level Architecture, System Requirements, Design Documents, Wireframe, etc
• Successfully engage in multiple initiatives simultaneously.
• Work independently with users to define concepts and under the direction of product owner, project managers.
• Drive and challenge business units on their assumptions of how they will successfully execute their plans.
• Serves as the conduit between the business/customer community and the software development team through which requirements flow
• Develop infrastructure requirements specifications according to standard templates.
• Experience in troubleshooting infrastructure resources issues and taking on-fly decisions.

What you can we are our expectations for this role:

Infrastructure Provisioning and Automation:

• Understanding of Terraform Data Structures and Functions to create IaC manifests.
• Familiarity with Terraform Opensource and TFC.
• Fluency and hands-on to deploy infrastructure with terraform using Azure | AWS provider.
• Experience to create Terraform configuration manifests from scratch.
• Experience and hands-on to define Terraform Blueprints for modules and deployment manifest from scratch.
• Familiarity to use modules and configuration manifest into different landscapes with DRY approach(Workspaces, Variables)
• Fluency to transform infrastructure requirements into terraform code.
• Extensive fluency to create / modify / refactor terraform modules from scratch.
• Experience working with Git Repositories for Modules Control Version and Lifecycle with Azure DevOps and GitHub.
• Experience working with Terraform Cloud and Modules Registries with AzureDevops.
• Fluency and hands-on to define terraform sentinel policies with alignment with Security and Governance.
• Good understanding of Azure Policies / Custom Roles to be applied and used when creating Terraform Policies and Terraform Deployments.

Infrastructure Configuration / Automation

• Fluency in one or mode scripting languages including Bash, Python, or PowerShell.
• Familiarity with configuration management system and understanding of configuration as Code - Ansible.
• Familiarity with Ansible Galaxy and Private Git Repositories for Roles and Collection Lifecycle.
• DEMONSTRATE Experience and fluency to crate Ansible Playbooks, Roles, Collections, and Inventories (static and dynamic) from scratch.
• Fluency with Ansible and AzureDevops CI/CD pipelines for configuration management (Ansible Playbook must be run using AzureDevops CI/CD pipelines, similar to use GitLab Pipelines / GitHub Actions).
• Fluency with AzureDevops to be used as Repository for roles, collection, and playbooks lifecycle.
• Experience with Ansible and Windows Hosts configuration management.
• Fluency and Familiarity to work with Ansible Tower, RedHat Satellite for RHEL deployments, and configuration management for Linux and Windows Hosts.

Extra-Skills Sysadmin | Cloud Sys Operations:

• Strong confidence to manage cloud infrastructure resources in Azure | AWS.
• Demonstrable hands-on experience managing Linux systems (RHEL, Debian, Ubuntu).

Desired Certifications:

• Azure Administrator - AZ 104
• Terraform Associated Certification - Desired.

Cloud Providers to work with:

• Azure
• AWS
• GCP

What\'s In It For You?

• Elective Benefits: Our programs are tailored to your country to best accommodate your lifestyle.
• Grow Your Career: Accelerate your path to success (and keep up with the future) with formal programs on leadership and professional development, and many more on-demand courses.
• Elevate Your Personal Well-Being: Boost your financial, physical, and mental well-being through seminars, events, and our global Life Empowerment Assistance Program.
• Diversity, Equity & Inclusion: It\'s not just a phrase to us; valuing every voice is how we succeed. Join us in celebrating our global diversity through inclusive education, meaningful peer-to-peer conversations, and equitable growth and development opportunities.
• Make the Most of our Global Organization: Network with other new co-workers within your first 30 days through our onboarding program.
• Connect with Your Community: Participate in internal, peer-led inclusive communities and activities, including business resource groups, local volunteering events, and more environmental and social initiatives.

Don\'t meet every single requirement? Apply anyway.

At Tech Data, a TD SYNNEX Company, we\'re proud to be recognized as a great place to work and a leader in the promotion and practice of diversity, equity and inclusion. If you\'re excited about working for our company and believe you\'re a good fit for this role, we encourage you to apply. You may be exactly the person we\'re looking for!