Cloud Engineer // 12 month Contract // 100% Remote $30-$40/hr

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An American cloud consulting comopany has entlisted us to find them a cloud engineer on that will have the freedom of working remoteley from anywhere in the world.

If you're looking for such flexibility with the below requirement matching your skill set don't hesitate to get in touch.

Essential Duties and responsibilities

* Implement the roadmap for Cloud Architecture and Services (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, ITaaS, etc)

* Aligns IT architecture and Cloud solutions with the project's business goals and objectives

* Seamlessly integrates business and service strategy into enterprise architecture roadmap

* Partners with business and technology subject-matter experts to elicit and translate business requirements into technological solutions

* Leads and executes the design and modeling of tactical architectures for delivery, development, and support of projects

* Partners with Cloud architects and other engineers to provide a consensus based scalable and adaptable architectural solution

* Develops and maintains policies, standards, and guidelines to ensure that a consistent framework is applied across the company

* Promotes the use of a shared infrastructure and application roadmap to reduce costs and improve how information flows

* Participate in the service and solutions development life cycle to ensure sound Cloud solutions are implemented and transitioned to Operations

* Participate in planning, implementation, and growth of our Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Microsoft Azure foundational platform.

* Conduct proof of concept (POC) and implement the design in AWS / Azure.

* Mentor less experienced technical staff

* Development of automated solutions to monitor and support our software development and release processes.

Job Qualifications

Education:

Required: Bachelor's Degree in computer science or related field. Relevant experience will be considered.

Highly Preferred: Master's Degree in Computer Science

Skills and Experience:

* 5 + years Professional experience in Technology Infrastructure, Architecture, InfoSec, Service Management Technologies

* 3+ years using cloud based technologies (AWS - EC2 / S3, Azure, Google Cloud).

* Ability to "think big" and challenge conventional wisdom regarding technology refresh and hype

* Strong Cloud and Technical skills

* Experience designing, developing, deploying, testing Cloud architecture/services.

* Experience with programming and infrastructure automation (e.g. Python, Shell, Java, and JSON).

* Comprehensive knowledge of hardware, software, application, and systems engineering

* Excellent verbal and written communication skills

* Strong project management and organization skills

* Demonstrated ability to build consensus among many stakeholders

* Comfortable with ambiguity and Ability to handle concurrent assignments.

* Ability to establish, implement, and enforce appropriate Cloud IT standards to meet business requirements

* Excellent planning and organizational skills

* Fluent in English

Certifications: (One or more of the following)

* AWS Associate Level Certification required (Professional desired).

* MCSA Cloud Certification or equivalent.