Senior Cloud EngineerCDW • Chicago, IL, United States

Senior Cloud Engineer

CDW • Chicago, IL, United States

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CDW is happy to be partnering with our Chicago based client on this new Senior Cloud Engineer opportunity. Please find the details below and apply if interested!

Position : Senior Cloud Engineer

Contract Length : 3-6 months – 40 hours per week, potential to extend and / or convert to a permanent role

Location : Onsite in Chicago, IL 60606

Interview Process : 2 interviews

Top three skills needed :

Expert understanding of AWS products, including : EC2, S3, ALB / NLB, VPC, Lambda, RDS, ElastiCache, DynamoDB, Batch, IAM, SQS, SNS
Strong to Expert understanding of Kubernetes as a platform, including cluster creation from scratch, cluster management, security, deployment of applications, usage of Helm; experience with managed Kubernetes platforms, such as EKS, AKS, or GKE a plus
Experience with cloud-native security practices and tools

Job Description :

This exciting hands-on role within our Infrastructure & Platform Services team will provide you with the opportunity to make a lasting impact on the firm’s cloud implementation, strategy, and architecture design. You will have the chance to work with some of the smartest and most driven individuals in the industry.

As a Senior Cloud Engineer, you will :

Serve as a mentor and guide to Cloud Engineering team members

Play a key role in architecting and managing our public cloud environments

Partner with developers and internal stakeholders to understand requirements and provide recommendations for cloud solutions and strategies to address those needs

Work with Infrastructure & Platform teams to provide a consistent end user experience across our on-premise and cloud environments

Write code : whether it’s Python, Terraform, Puppet, or something else, writing code to automate and optimize deployment of infrastructure and applications is a core part of this role

Develop self-service capabilities that allow stakeholders to access cloud services quickly and efficiently

Implement and support applications and systems running on our cloud environment

Stay up to date with the latest trends and offerings within the cloud computing space and act as a champion of cloud adoption across the organization

Provide a platform as a product to others within the organization : we create and maintain a world-class cloud and application platform, which we then operate and offer as a product

Participate in out-of-hours on-call rotation and maintenance

Core Tech Stack :

Public cloud : AWS and Azure

Infrastructure Code : Terraform

Application Management : Kubernetes, Docker, Helm

OS : Linux and Windows

Container Technologies : Containerd, Podman, OCI

Observability Tools : Grafana, Prometheus, Thanos, OpenTelemetry

To be considered a good cultural fit, you must be :

An ambitious self-starter

Hungry to learn

Driven towards success

A very strong and efficient communicator

Able to multi-task and excel in a fast-paced trading environment

A problem solver; able to develop quick and sound solutions to complex problems

Comfortable working in, and leading, an agile-based team

To be considered a good technical fit, you must have :

7+ years, hands-on experience architecting and implementing large-scale, highly available, services on public cloud (AWS preferred)

A bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, information systems, or related field

Expert knowledge of immutable infrastructure, infrastructure automation and provisioning tools, such as AWS CloudFormation or Terraform

Expert understanding of AWS products, including : EC2, S3, ALB / NLB, VPC, Lambda, RDS, ElastiCache, DynamoDB, Batch, IAM, SQS, SNS

Strong to Expert understanding of Kubernetes as a platform, including cluster creation from scratch, cluster management, security, deployment of applications, usage of Helm; experience with managed Kubernetes platforms, such as EKS, AKS, or GKE a plus

Experience with cloud-native security practices and tools

Understanding of FinOps principles and cloud cost optimization

Strong knowledge of automation scripting using Python and / or Bash

Strong knowledge of Linux administration particularly RHEL-based operating systems

Strong operational understanding of networking concepts, architecture, and best practices, especially as it relates to hybrid cloud integration

Hands on experience working with container technologies (Docker, Podman)

Experience with disaster recovery and business continuity planning

Familiarity with source control systems (Git) as well as CI / CD tools (Jenkins, TeamCity, BitBucket, Azure Pipelines)

Analytical skills – Ability to troubleshoot and logically assess problems and determine solutions

Detailed documentation skills – ability to represent ideas, requirements, reference architecture and problems in clear, concise, and business-friendly documents

Bonus points for :

Public cloud architecture and strategy planning experience

Contributions to open-source libraries, projects, or communities

AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate or Professional), AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate

Any additional AWS, Azure, or GCP resource specializations

Kubernetes certifications (CKA, CKAD, CKS)

Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible

Knowledge of AI / ML infrastructure management

Experience with platform engineering practices

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