Cloud Platform Engineer

Overview

Kimley-Horn’s IT Team has a challenging and rewarding opportunity for a Cloud Platform Engineer based in our Raleigh office. In this role, you will be working alongside a team of five professionals who manage our execution of Cloud Solutions & Architecture supporting the Cloud development platform for our various projects, both internal and external.

Ranked as one of Fortune Magazine’s “100 Best Companies to Work For,” Kimley-Horn prides itself on hiring high-achieving, dedicated, and professionals who are passionate about the work they do.

Responsibilities

• Involvement in a variety of operational activities, such as continuous environment health monitoring, maintaining standards, and stability across our IaaS / PaaS / SaaS environment
• Initiating incident management in the event of an issue and addressing escalations
• Implementing recommended modifications while adhering to change management processes, vulnerability management and remediation, and engaging in disaster recovery tests
• Identifying new cloud technologies and platforms to help solve technical challenges
• Build cloud foundational components encompassing network, security, identity, operations, and governance in the cloud
• Operationalize solutions from proof-of-concept through production, using automation for repeatability, maintainability, and to enforce standards
• Designing technical architecture for cloud solutions that meet the needs for scalability, reliability, availability, and performance
• Cloud Capacity Planning, Profiling, Load testing, and monitoring of cloud applications, while incorporating security best practices
• Responsible for day-to-day operations of managing cloud resources which include resource allocation, optimizing capacity, and configuration management
• Function as part of a team, involving and supporting others to get the job done

Qualifications