Senior Cloud Automation Engineer Remote or work at home option

Profile

Description

The Senior Cloud Automation Engineer enables automation to provide optimal performance, repeatability, continuity and efficiency in virtualized, on-demand environments through the delivery of automation based on provided architectures. The Senior Cloud Automation Engineer also provides proposals for automation based on opportunities observed in interactions with other teams within the organization. The Senior Cloud Automation Engineer work assignments involve moderately complex to complex issues.

Responsibilities

The Senior Cloud Automation Engineer performs development of IT automation products and service offerings. Assesses the provided automation architecture and or proof of concept and selects best methods for implementation of said architecture and creates appropriate automated tests to validate functionality.

Performs assessment of workloads for fit into one of several cloud deployment form factors - IaaS, PaaS, Serverless Functions etc. and guides infrastructure teams in implementing creative solutions on public cloud infrastructure, as well as helps application teams to move to target form factor.

When needed, develops Infrastructure-as-Code templates for deployment of assets into public cloud environments. Further develops configuration management playbooks to bootstrap applications onto deployed assets.

Creates standards for cloud deployment of applications - with prescriptive guidance on what service or technology to use for each tier of the application/capability.

Provides guidance and engages on migration of application components from on-prem to cloud. This not only includes advisory/consulting responsibilities, but also includes the actual implementation/engineering involved in the process. i.e., this is not advisory-only role - this is a highly engaged role in which the Senior Engineer will need to be hands-on, and work on the actual migration, stand-up and cutover of the application/capability in the public cloud.

Implements solutions for networking, routing, load balancing and different types of B2B connectivity in partnership with the Infrastructure and Networking teams.

Implements appropriate Information Security controls and solutions in partnership with the Information Security team. Applies a solid understanding of Information Security controls and best practices to day-to-day tasks and projects

Finally, candidate must have an 'Automation First' mindset - fundamentally will not accept doing things over and over by hand. Responsible for evaluating and implementing orchestration, automation, and tooling solutions to ensure consistent processes and repetitive tasks are performed with the highest level of accuracy where cloud computing is concerned.

Builds credibility and trust by delivering what has been promised within committed timeframes.

Communicates effectively with Development and Operations teams to align on requirements, driving SDLC requirements, capabilities, and limitations pertinent to delivering highly resilient applications.

Conducts proactive performance tuning, compares performance between on-prem and cloud, and implements recommendations for improvement.

Facilitates the resolutions of non-application issues (3rd party upstream issues, infrastructure issues, storage, database, network, file transfer issues etc.)

Required Qualifications

Bachelors degree in a Technical Field

5 or more years of automation experience

Proficiency in infrastructure automation tools like Terraform & Ansible, or equivalent

Proficiency with shell scripting

Proficiency with Git

CI/CD experience (GitHub Enterprise, Azure DevOps, or Jenkins)

2 or more years of technical experience with Cloud platforms

Strong written and oral communication skills

Must be passionate about contributing to an organization focused on continuously improving consumer experiences

Preferred Qualifications

AWS, Azure, or GCP certifications

Experience automating and integrating multiple technologies to deliver end to end solutions (ServiceNow, Secrets Management, etc.)

Experience working in an Agile product methodology

Masters degree in a Technical Field

Additional Information

We are looking for a Senior Engineer to staff our cloud team in the Shared Services Engineering group. The individual selected to fill this position will be responsible for managing and steering our next several rounds of transformation in the public cloud, creating a roadmap for moving our workloads from traditional datacenter to the public cloud, modernizing traditional VM workloads to fit into suitable PaaS solutions, modern container platform or serverless functions form factors, as well as providing leadership and engineering ownership to meet data residency and sovereignty requirements.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Company info

Humana Inc.
Website : http://www.humana.com