Cloud Engineer

Company: Moneygram
Location: Sachse
Posted on: March 25, 2020

Job Description:

The IT Engineer III/CloudEngineer will support MoneyGram's customers, stakeholders, partners, staff andoverall business strategy through the servicing and management of itstechnological resources. The incumbent will lead and manage projects,participate in vendor management, create/maintain documentation, and createstandards and documentation. Performs Technology Lifecycle management duties,presenting proposals/solutions to management through executive layers, andparticipate in the budget process along with management. The incumbent willwork with other engineers to design and build environments to proper standardswith associated documentation and processes, while also serving as a level ofescalation by assisting Operations team(s) who support the environments. Theincumbent will also provide mentorship and leadership to junior members of theengineering team. Primary ResponsibilitiesCreate innovative solutions leveraging cloud platforms to solvebusiness challenges.Gatherrequirements, assess capabilities and analyze findings to provide appropriatecloud recommendations and adoption strategy.Create conceptual, logical and physical design for cloud-basedsolutions for infrastructure and platforms.Be wellversed in AWS and/or Microsoft Azure, technology architecture, associated vendorproducts, and their interdependencies.Provide appropriate cloud solution recommendations based on yourdefinition and analysis of the technical requirements.Learn and adopt new tools and techniques to increase performance,automation, and scalability.Share the leading practices and cloud emerging technologies withinternal team members.Collaborate as part of larger teams which may include projectmanagers, business analysts, architects, developers, and change managementprofessionals. Requirements 1-3 years architecting,implementing, migrating to and supporting Microsoft Azure or Amazon WebServices infrastructure and topologiesProject experience implementing coreinfrastructure, networking and cloud based services for business teams or consumersPrevious hands-onexperience with the design, implementation, operation, and maintenance of AWScompute, security, logging, and monitoringDeep productknowledge and understanding of product features in one or more major cloudsplatforms: Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google CloudIaaS, PaaS, and SaaS SolutionsVirtualizationHigh Availabilityand Disaster Recovery principles, patterns and usageExperiencedelivering Infrastructure as Code and automation/orchestration of OS andapplications.Automation experiencewith Terraform, CloudFormation, Resource Manager, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, etc.Experience with cloud-based softwaredevelopment tools and methodologies (e.g. Git, CI/CD, CodeDeploy, CodePipeline,Build Automation and Testing, etc.)Experience with containertechnologies (e.g. Kubernetes, Docker, Azure AKS, AWS EKS, etc.)Experience supporting Productionapplications or workloads in a cloud-based environmentPerformance analysis,troubleshooting and remediation techniquesAbility to code/script in administrativetype language (e.g. Ruby, Python, PowerShell, Bash).Experience with networkingprinciples and technologies (DNS, Load Balancers, Reverse Proxies)Strong analytical problem solvingabilityStrong presentation, written andverbal communication skillsSelf-starter with the ability towork independently or as part of a project teamExperience in operating on-prem andcloud infrastructure and applications.AWS: Certified Solutions Architect isa PLUS Environment experience AWS - route53, VPN, shared VPC, transit gateway, EC2, S3,Beanstalk, Lambda, EFS, EBS, ACM, IAM, Multi AZ / Multi RegionGCP - cloudDNS, CloudRouter, VM, Storage, Big Query, Multi AZ /Multi RegionKubernetes - create YAML code to deploy applications - Prometheus,Istio, EFK or ELK

Any combination of relevanteducation and experience and/or related professionaldesignations/certifications in this field is highly desirable.



Education

Minimum Required: Bachelors' degree, preferred



Experience

5-7 years' IT Operations and/or Engineering experience with increasing levels of responsibility. 5-7 years' proven customer service experience, and must communicate clearly, courteously and professionally in person and over the phone.



Essential Skills

Excellent problem-solving skills and broad understanding of relationships between hardware and applications, and client/server relationships. In-depth understanding of the criticality of existing environments when leading/managing projects, software and/or hardware as it relates to the business needs, customers, partners and staff. Knowledge of the inputs and outputs associated with the data, software and/or hardware technology. In depth knowledge of the technology this position represents, including all aspects/activities required to maintain system stability and optimal performance. Excellent written and oral communication skills. Ability to communicate technical information to nontechnical personnel. Ability to prioritize and handle multiple tasks. Availability to participate in on-call support as an escalation point from IT Operations or in high-severity incident situations. Strong project management skills.

Associated topics: http, information architect, infrastructure architect, ip, maintain, principal systems engineer, server, system architect, system integrator, systems integration architect

Keywords: Moneygram, Garland , Cloud Engineer, Engineering , Sachse, Texas