Job Details
Client Industry: Banking
Location: HYBRID - 3 days on-site, Downtown Pittsburgh PA
Duration: 12 month contract-to-hire
Start Date: ASAP
Must Haves:
- Bachelor s degree in related field & 3 years of equivalent professional experience OR 7 + equivalent work experience
- At least 3 years of experience in technical infrastructure\systems support role exposed to wide variety of technologies (will work with several different client projects/environments)
- At least 2+ years working within AWS infrastructure
- STRONG organizational abilities (Smaller team multiproject environment)
- Experience documenting epics/features/stories and editing project plans within a project planning/tracking tool (Jira, Confluence, ADO, etc.)
- Experience with provisioning and managing infrastructure & applications in AWS Environments (AWS is priority 90% infrastructure, Azure may or may not grow in their environment)
- Above average/advanced automation skills using Jenkins (Automation mindset absolutely necessary a step that cannot be skipped in this environment)
- AWS CloudFormation Template
- Experience with at least 2 of the following: AWS Landing Zone, Account Factory, Control Tower, SCPs or Guardrails
- Experience building containers - must have experience with EKS, ECR, and Docker
Plusses:
- Experience with AWS security tools Guard Duty, Security Hub, Inspector, Config, AccessAnalyzer
- AWS Archs/SysOps /DevOps certifications
- Basic exposure to Azure
- Previous experience as a Scrum Master
Day to day:
Insight Global is hiring a Senior Cloud Engineer to sit in a hybrid format in Downtown Pittsburgh for one of our banking clients. This Senior Engineer is responsible for the effective and efficient setup and architecture of the cloud infrastructure and supporting platforms. The Senior Cloud Engineer will be responsible for the design, integration and troubleshooting of the cloud infrastructure across several business applications of the Bank. They will be joining a smaller team consisting of 4 individuals currently, and must be a highly organized/detail oriented resource. This individual must be a great listener with the ability to document Scrum meetings/daily meetings as that will be an aspect of the role. The resource will also work collaboratively with technical and business stakeholders on the cloud capabilities required to support the Bank s infrastructure environment; providing the resilient design that is repeatable for application modernization and cloud deployments.
Additional Responsibilities Include:
- Implementing cloud infrastructure architecture using Infrastructure as Code tools like Cloud Formation, Terraform, Ansible, and Docker.
- Build the Infrastructure as Code while considering reuse, extensibility, and scalability requirements
- Deploying foundational AWS services VPC, IAM, Security Groups, NACLs, KMS, Secret Manager, SSM, Routes, EC2, EKS, ELB, S3, CloudWatch, CloudTrail
- Managing a Kubernetes environment, knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, AWS CodeCommit
- Performs the ongoing administration and configuration of the Bank s Cloud Infrastructure (private and public) utilizing knowledge of cloud native solutions and operating systems such as AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Windows Server\Desktop, Linux Platforms, Oracle Databases along with supporting applications.
- Assist in defining technical standards, governance and compliance with cloud standards and policies such as ensuring all cloud security measures are incorporated into infrastructure implementation and maintaining business continuity and disaster recovery processes.
- Conducts routine monitoring and analysis of the cloud environments to include audit log reports evaluation, system and storage utilization reports, site and system usage, growth reports, etc. Monitors and test performance for potential bottlenecks and identify possible solutions to resolve issues.
- Develops and details best practices for supporting cloud applications and assists with defining appropriate support model to provide production support that improves application availability, quality, and performance by ensuring achievement of Service Level Agreements (SLA) and participating in required support calls
Compensation: $60.00-70.00/hr