Sr. Cloud Engineer at Worldreader

Duties/Responsibilities

• Provide guidance, thought leadership, and mentorship to the development team to build cloud competencies.
• Ensure application performance, uptime, and scale, maintaining high standards of code quality and thoughtful design.
• Manage cloud environments in accordance with company security guidelines.
• Develop and implement technical efforts to design, build, and deploy AWS applications at the direction of lead architects, including large-scale data processing, computationally intensive statistical modeling, and advanced analytics.
• Participate in all aspects of the software development life cycle for AWS solutions, including planning, requirements, development, testing, and quality assurance.
• Troubleshoot incidents, identify root causes, fix and document problems, and implement preventive measures.
• Educate teams on the implementation of new cloud-based initiatives, providing associated training as required.
• Improve the existing CI/CD pipelines and build a modular and event-driven E2E test suite.
• Assume some DevOps/Sys admin responsibilities; Automate and keep infrastructure up to date.

Desired Skills & Qualifications

• Must be fluent in English.
• Proficient in migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the Cloud.
• Exceptional problem-solving skills, with the ability to see and solve issues before they affect business productivity.
• Familiarity with common enterprise services.
• Working knowledge of software development tools and methodologies.
• Ability to manage technical programs of medium-sized companies.
• Able to adapt to new technologies, learn quickly, and manage high ambiguity.
• Comfortable communicating across internal and external organizations.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field of study, or five (5)+ years of related work experience.
• Three (3)+ years of experience in infrastructure, DevOps, or software engineering.
• Three (3)+ years of design/implementation/consulting experience with enterprise applications.
• Proficiency with running main AWS services: ECS, DynamoDB, Beanstalk, RDS, Redshift, Lambda, Code Pipeline, CloudWatch, VPC, and IAM. 
• Expertise in architecting/operating solutions built on AWS.
• Experience with using API Gateway, CloudFormation, Bastion Servers, Glue, Pinpoint, Device Farm, SQS or other message queuing services, AWS Firewall, Security Hub, and others.