Cloud Engineer

Company: ZS
Location: Evanston
Posted on: February 16, 2021

Job Description:

CLOUD ENGINEER (AWS) We seek a Cloud Engineer to join our Cloud Engineering & Operations Team, located in Evanston, IL. As a Cloud Engineer you will be an individual contributor and subject matter expert who maintains and participates in the design and implementation of technology solutions. The engineer will collaborate within a team of technologists to produce enterprise scale solutions for our clients' needs. This position will be working with the latest Amazon Web Services technologies around cloud architecture, infrastructure automation, and network security. Responsibilities:

• Enable resilience and high availability for numerous platforms, from bleeding-edge cloud applications to on-premise legacy environments
• Contribute to architectural decisions for full-stack software solutions delivered using industry-leading DevOps best practices and technologies
• Implement HA/DR, security, capacity, and compliance strategies for new and existing applications
• Harden virtual networks, firewalls, load balancers, and virtual machines
• Work with application development teams to select and utilize security tools, mitigate vulnerabilities, devise testing strategies and automate repeatable tasks
• Build, implement and optimize cloud infrastructure solutions for distributed systems on our existing public cloud or data center
• Collaborate to define best practices and standards around DevOps and service resilience while also building reusable automation libraries / APIs that can be applied across the enterprise Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree required with record of high academic achievement, preferably in computer science, information technology or a related discipline master's degree preferred;
  • 1+ years in an Infrastructure Engineering / Software Engineering / DevOps role, deploying and maintaining multi-tiered application architectures
  • 1+ years experience with AWS cloud technologies with AWS certification (Solution Architect / DevOps Engineer)
  • 1+ years experience functioning as a member in a infrastructure/software team
  • Knowledge of cloud technologies like AWS or GCP
  • Experience functioning as a member in a infrastructure/software team
  • Experience building automation using scripting languages like Bash/Powershell/Python
  • Experience working and contributing to software applications development/deployment/management processes in a SaaS model
  • Experience of delivering quality work on defined tasks with limited oversight
  • Hands-on experience with AWS services like CloudFormation (or Terraform), CodeBuild, Config, Systems Manager, ServiceCatalog, Lambda, etc.
  • Full-stack IT experience with *nix, Windows, network/firewall concepts, source control (BitBucket) and build/dependency management and continuous integration systems (TeamCity, Jenkins)
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, programming ability, Initiative and drive to contribute
  • Possess strong verbal, written and team presentation communication skills. ZS is a global firm; fluency in English is required
  • This role requires healthy doses of initiative and the ability to remain flexible and responsive in a very dynamic environment
  • Ability to work in global cross-office teams
  • Ability to quickly learn new platforms, languages, tools, and techniques as needed to meet project requirements.

Keywords: ZS, Evanston , Cloud Engineer, Engineering , Evanston, Illinois