Cloud Engineer

Employees in this job function are responsible for designing, building and deploying cloud-based infrastructure and managed services to achieve scalability, flexibility and cost efficiencies for private and public cloud systems that support the business. They are focused on created opinionated cloud environments and systems like Storage as a service, Infrastructure as a service etc. that form building blocks used by other enterprise and product teams. Key Responsibilities Designing and deploying various opinionated cloud environments and platforms aligned with enterprise architecture and security requirements while meeting the business-critical needs of internal customers.Collaborate with enterprise architect, security teams, solution architects, product teams, etc. to design, build, and deploy cloud infrastructure solutions to meet the company's needs for scalability, availability, performance and security.Monitor system usage to predict future needs, ensuring that the organization scales its IT resources appropriately.Develop automation scripts and IaC templates for configuring and provisioning complex cloud resources including identity services, virtual private cloud, gateways, SSL, Kubernetes clusters, NoSQL data stores, etc.Integrate enterprise security and disaster recovery policies in cloud infrastructure configurations, ensuring data protection and data retention practices comply with industry regulationsDesign, implement and optimize cloud-based storage solutions ensuring data availability, security and cost efficiencyAssist in the execution of technology strategy and implementation of engineering roadmaps, including optimizing cloud expenditure, maximizing resource usage and ensuring high availability across required geographic regions.Evaluate new and emerging cloud technologies for incorporation into existing systems, assist in modernization efforts to prioritize and execute migrations of on-prem services to cloud systems. Design highly available, resilient, and cost-optimized application integration solutions on GCP. Implement infrastructure-as-code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform. Configure IAM, Secret Manger, Cloud DNS, Cloud Load Balancer, HA/DR environment Experience with Cloud SQL & Non-SQL databases, Backup/recovery, and high availability architectures Experience with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and IaC. Experience with SRE practices in Google Cloud Platform Programming experience (Java, Python, or Go). Skills Required GCP, Dynatrace, Splunk, Skills Preferred AIPGEE, Java, API Experience Required Engineer 2 Exp.: Practitioner: 1 coding language or framework. 4+ years in IT; 3+ years in development 3+ years of experience with Java and Python Experience Preferred Prior experience of us is preferred, especially if they understand our development processes and environment Education Required Bachelor's Degree Additional Information A Cloud Engineer with a software-development background who can understand Java/Python code, make smaller changes when needed, configure and maintain cloud applications/services, and work with observability tools such as Dynatrace and Splunk. Prior experience of us would make the candidate especially strong. Additional Info At FastTek Global, Our Purpose is Our People and Our Planet . We come to work each day and are reminded we are helping people find their success stories . Also, Doing the right thing is our mantra . We act responsibly, give back to the communities we serve and have a little fun along the way. We have been doing this with pride, dedication and plain, old-fashioned hard work for 24 years ! FastTek Global is financially strong, privately held company that is 100% consultant and client focused . We've differentiated ourselves by being fast, flexible, creative and honest . Throw out everything you've heard, seen, or felt about every other IT Consulting company. We do unique things and we do them for Fortune 10, Fortune 500, and technology start-up companies. Benefits Our benefits are second to none and thanks to our flexible benefit options you can choose the benefits you need or want, options include: Medical and Dental (FastTek pays majority of the medical program)VisionPersonal Time Off (PTO) ProgramLong Term Disability (100% paid)Life Insurance (100% paid)401(k) with immediate vesting and 3% (of salary) dollar-for-dollar match Plus, we have a lucrative employee referral program and an employee recognition culture. FastTek Global was named one of the Top Work Places in Michigan by the Detroit Free Press in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 , 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023! 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