Cloud Engineer

<strong>Platform Engineer</strong><br><br>Hybrid - 2days on-site at Okemos, Michigan <br><br><strong>Qualifying Criteria</strong><br><ul><li>Cloud Tech (OpenStack, Azure, Or Aws)</li><li>Docker (Container Concepts)</li><li>Infrastructure Deployment Tools (Ansible, Chef, or Terraform)</li><li>CICD (ArgoDC, Jenkins or Github Actions)</li><li>Kubernetes- KCNA, CKA, and/or CKAD certification</li><li>OpenShift</li><li>Linux/Unix OS</li><li>Scripting </li></ul><br><strong>Description:</strong><br><br>Contributes to the design and implementation of a software engineering culture that unifies Application Development and Operations. Will assist in engineering solutions that maximize the throughput of code releases through automated, secure, and portable tools and functions.<br><br><strong>Responsibilities:</strong><br><ul><li>Participates in the analysis, design and development of technical specifications, programming, and testing of DevOps components.</li><li>Participates in design and scripting reviews to ensure that design and enterprise programming standards and guidelines are followed. Assist with creating or updating the enterprise standards when gaps are identified.</li><li>Assists team members in issue resolution, scalability metrics, integration issues, and critical production issues as required. </li><li>Follows technology best practices and standards and escalates any issues as they deem appropriate. Follows architecture and design best practices (as guided by the Senior Engineer, Lead DevOps Engineer & Architectural team).</li><li>Responsible for assisting in configuration and scripting to implement fully automated infrastructure provisioning, image builds, and instance deployment capabilities. </li><li>Follows standard change control and configuration management practices.</li><li>Participates in 24-hour on-call rotation in support of the platform.</li></ul><br><strong>Required Skills/Qualifications</strong><br><ul><li>Drive and desire to automate repeatable processes</li><li>Excellent interpersonal skills and communication, as well as the willingness to collaborate with teams across the organization</li><li>Experience in DevOps practices, infrastructure, scripting/programming.</li><li>Linux/Unix OS experience</li><li>OpenShift experience</li><li>Kubernetes experience</li></ul><br><strong>Desired Skills/Qualifications</strong><br><ul><li>KCNA, CKA, and/or CKAD certification</li><li>Experience working with Kubernetes in an Enterprise environment</li><li>Working knowledge of cloud technologies (eg. OpenStack, Azure, AWS, etc.), container concepts (eg. Docker), infrastructure deployment tools (eg. Ansible, Chef, Terraform), CI/CD tools (eg. ArgoCD, Jenkins, GitHub Actions)</li></ul>