Remote Sr Cloud Systems Engineer
Company: Berkadia
Location: Garland
Posted on: May 15, 2022
Job Description:
Sr Systems Engineer
Position Summary
The Infrastructure Engineering Team manages the design,
installation, and maintenance of Berkadia's technology
infrastructure. This includes all physical & virtual servers, cloud
platforms (Azure and AWS), Active Directory, Docker, Kubernetes,
messaging, storage, alerting, Service Mesh, monitoring and backups.
This position will require a blend of on-premises and cloud
knowledge.
At Berkadia, cloud computing continues to allow us to modernize and
consolidate IT infrastructure, automate workloads, and pursue
next-generation innovation. To continue this transformation, we're
seeking an experienced systems, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and/or
Microsoft Azure engineer with expertise in the development,
implementation, optimization, and maintenance of our cloud-based
solutions as well as the support and maintenance of our on-premises
systems. The ideal candidate is experienced in cloud-based tech,
with a firm grasp of emerging technologies, platforms, and
applications, and ability to customize them to help our business
become more secure and efficient. Extensive knowledge of cloud
maintenance and advanced industry knowledge is key to keeping us on
the cutting edge. This person will also have extensive experience
with on-premises and enterprise solutions including server
hardware, Windows Server, email, DNS, virtualization, and storage
solutions. From day one, you'll have an immediate impact on the
day-to-day efficiency of our IT operations, and an ongoing impact
on our overall growth.
What You Get To Do
- Work in tandem with our engineering, security, and data
engineering teams to identify and implement the most optimal
cloud-based solutions for the company
- Assist with the architecting and supporting secure and
expandable technology solutions in the cloud, specifically AWS and
Azure. This includes, migrating on-premise workloads to the cloud,
integrating cloud applications with on premises resources and
implementing scalable cloud solutions using Infrastructure as Code,
preferably Terraform
- Participate in all aspects of the software development life
cycle for cloud and on-premise solutions, including planning,
requirements, development, testing, trouble shooting, and quality
assurance
- Work with engineering teams to ensure that the systems are
highly available, reliable, highly monitored and easily
deployable.
- Design and Implement OS virtualization and containerization
technologies such as Docker, Containers and Kubernetes
- Design and deploy solutions, leveraging common AWS services,
such as EC2, S3, RDS, SQS, EKS, Elastic Beanstalk, Elastic Load
Balancer, Auto scaling groups etc. using Infrastructure as Code
(Terraform) and CI/CD.
- Define and document best practices and strategies regarding
CI/CD pipelines, application deployment and infrastructure
maintenance
- Provide guidance, thought leadership, and mentorship to
engineering and operations teams
- Ensure application performance, uptime, and scale, maintaining
high standards of code quality and thoughtful design
- Managing cloud environments in accordance with company security
guidelines
- Support our Microsoft O365 implementation, including Exchange
Online, Teams and SharePoint Online
- Maintain our existing on-premises virtual environment including
support for VMware and Hyper-V as well as the Windows Server
guests
- Maintain Berkadia's Active Directory and Azure Active Directory
environments. This includes writing, managing and troubleshooting
group policy objects.
- Troubleshoot incidents, identify root cause, fix and document
problems, and implement preventive measures
- Provide engineering support to operations teams to ensure
appropriate training and transition of new technology/solutions, as
well as operational escalations
- Employ exceptional problem-solving skills, with the ability to
see and solve issues before they affect business productivity
- Interacting with clients, providing cloud support, and making
recommendations based on client needs.
- Design and implement observability & monitoring solutions using
Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, CloudWatch, Stackdriver, Azure
Monitor
- Ensure that SLOs (Service-level objectives), SLAs
(Service-level agreements), OLAs (Internal metrics) and SLIs
(Service-level indicators) are met
- Must exercise effective judgment and follow established
procedures in support of production, including on-call rotation for
critical environments
- Provide 3rd level operational support for end users as
necessary
- Assist with other IT projects as needed or directed
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience developing and implementing cloud
solutions on AWS or Azure platforms
- 7-10+ years supporting mentioned technologies as a Systems
Engineer
- Understanding of and experience with the five pillars of a
well-architected frameworks
- Experience in several of the following areas: CI/CD toolsets
and pipelines, SysOps, database architecture, network architecture,
ETL, business intelligence, big data, advanced analytics,
Kubernetes (AWS EKS), Docker, common networking protocols and
services (DNS, HTTP(S), SSH, FTP, SMTP)
- Azure and AWS certifications preferred
- Proven ability to communicate and collaborate with
multi-disciplinary teams of business analysts, developers, data
engineers, data scientists, and subject matter experts
Employee Benefits
- 18 PTO days + 2 floating holidays & 10 paid holidays per
year
- Generous tuition reimbursement towards a Masters or Bachelors
degree
- 401K match up to 6%
- 12 weeks of 100% paid paternity/maternity leave
- Mentorship with industry professionals
Berkadia, a joint venture of Berkshire Hathaway and Jefferies
Financial Group, is a leader in the commercial real estate
industry, offering a robust suite of services to our multifamily
and commercial property clients. Powered by deep relationships and
industry-changing technology, our people sell, finance, and service
commercial real estate, providing support for the entire life cycle
of our clients' assets. Our unique ownership structure allows us to
put the client's interests first and creates a marketplace that
delivers a superior experience.
Applicants who require accommodations to participate in the
interview process should contact the Talent Acquisition Team to
arrange for such accommodations by emailing:
Talent.Acquisition@Berkadia.com
Berkadia does not share salary ranges in its job postings. Any
salary-related information you see posted externally has not been
provided or verified by Berkadia and may not be accurate.
Berkadia is an equal opportunity employer and affords equal
opportunity to all applicants and employees for all positions
without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin,
age, disability, veteran status or any other status protected under
local, state or federal laws.
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