TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions tour clients world-wide. Our client is a health and wellness organization located in Pittsburgh and operates health insurance plans in Pennsylvania, Delaware, and West Virginia.
Job Title: Cloud Software Engineer-CW
Location: Pittsburgh, PA, 15222
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Remote
Shift : M-F (8-5 EST)
Job Description:
- This job is a strong advocate of cloud technology and engineering support necessary to drive the organization's next-generation technologies.
- The intermediate level incumbent works to adopt, expand, maintain, and optimize cloud usage across the organization through
- engineering support of cloud technologies and through automation builds and related technologies.
- The incumbent owns support and engineering of cloud solutions and must stay current with new cloud offerings to continue to produce expected corporate results.
ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES
- Engineer & implement cloud-based technical architectures, migration approaches, deployment of cloud resources and application optimizations that utilize automation technologies, sound redundant solutions and enable business objectives.
- Works to define cloud resource procurement and performance patterns through monitoring and tracking of usage and trends to optimize cloud spend & resource efficiency.
- Proposes ideas, designs, and solutions to senior or lead engineers to further cloud service utilization and optimization.
- Develops automation scripts and other repeatable patterns to enable application and service teams to deploy software and services into cloud environments.
- Performs research and analysis required for new cloud deployment proposals, existing cloud service modification, and other new cloud adoption to ultimately provide sound recommendations on best course of action.
- Level 2 Incident, problem and change management as it pertains to the responsibilities of the cloud operations engineering team.
- Develop documentation to support operations process, procedures and implementations.
- Other duties as assigned or requested.
EDUCATION
- Required Bachelor's Degree in Cloud Computing, Computer & Information Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems,
- Information Technology, or closely related discipline
EXPERIENCE
- Required 3 years with at least two modern programming languages (Java, JavaScript, BASH, PowerShell etc.)
- Experience doing operational support of at least one of the following cloud service providers for an organization: Google Cloud Platform, Azure or Amazon Web Services.
Preferred
- Experience producing code that is fault-tolerant, efficient, and maintainable
- Experience designing, building, and deploying scalable cloud-based solution architectures through automation tools like
- Terraform or Ansible for example and versioning control via GitLab or similar tools.
- Experience with standard IT security practices such as identity and access management, data protection, encryption,
- certificate and key management
- Knowledge of containerization and container orchestration technologies such as Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
LICENSES or CERTIFICATIONS
- Required GCP, AWS, Azure or other Cloud Service Certification
Preferred
- Terraform, Ansible or other, similar tool certification
SKILLS
- Demonstrates ability to achieve stretch goals in a highly innovative and fast-paced environment.
- Ability to speak and write English fluently and idiomatically.
- Strong scripting experience along with interest and ability to learn other programming languages as needed.
- Gitlab or other versioning control tools and processes.
- Kubernetes or other Container orchestration technologies
- Terraform, Ansible, or other automation technologies
- Knowledge of infrastructure concepts, such as OS, Virtualization or Networking
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.