Job Title: Sr. Cloud Engineer
Employment Type: Direct-Hire FTE with iMatch’s Client
Working Location: Seattle, WA is our preferred office location for this employee. The role is hybrid onsite once per week (twice per week starting in 2025).Candidates must live within 50 miles of one of the following approved office locations:
- Arizona: Spectrum Scottsdale
- California: Gardena, Irvine, and Santa Rosa Admin
- Idaho: Boise
- New Mexico: Osuna
- Nevada: Summerlin (future state)
- Oregon: Portland, Eugene, and Bend
- Washington: Downtown Seattle (Preferred), Ballard, Bellingham, Everett, University Place, and Spokane
- Texas: Midtown in Dallas
- Utah: Plaza in Salt Lake City
Pay Range: $145,000-175,000 base salary
Notable Benefits:
- Paid time off for vacation, sick days and holidays
- Health insurance
- Stock options
- Bonus programs
- Generous 7% 401(k) employer matching*
- Paid Parental Leave
- Life and AD&D insurance
- Long-term disability
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Employee assistance programs
- Pre-tax health and dependent-care spending plans
Work Authorization Requirements: Visa sponsorship is not available for this position. Candidates must be authorized to work for any employer in the US without current or future sponsorship.
Job Description
Our client is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer that will play a critical role in designing, implementing, and maintaining their cloud infrastructure. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to architect scalable and secure cloud solutions, optimize system performance, and drive continuous improvement.
The ideal candidate should have a strong technical background in cloud technologies, excellent problem-solving skills, and a passion for delivering high-quality solutions.
Along with the key functions listed below, this position will be expected to uphold the value we place on simply being kind when servicing colleagues and clients.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following (Other duties may be assigned):
- Design, deploy, and manage cloud-based infrastructure and services, ensuring scalability, availability, and security.
- Collaborate with development, operations, and security teams to architect and implement efficient and reliable cloud solutions.
- Optimize cloud resource utilization, monitor system performance, and troubleshoot issues to ensure optimal performance and cost-effectiveness.
- Implement automation and infrastructure-as-code practices to streamline deployments, provisioning, and configuration management.
- Evaluate and recommend cloud services, tools, and technologies to improve efficiency and enhance system capabilities.
- Work with the audit and compliance team to ensure SOX compliance.
- Assist the security team with developing and enforcing cloud security best practices, including access controls, encryption, and vulnerability management.
- Provide technical guidance to information technology colleagues.
- Stay abreast of industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in cloud computing.
- Adherence to bank policies and procedures designed to comply with Federal regulations, including but not limited to the Bank Secrecy Act, USA Patriot Act and OFAC regulations.
Qualifications
Education/Skills/Training:
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
- HashiCorp Certified Terraform Associate
- Ability to work independently and exercise independent judgment and decision making.
- Strong documentation skills and ability to work in fast paced environments.
- Ability to assist internal and external customers in a personable and professional manner.
Experience:
- 4-5 years of experience as a Cloud Engineer or in a similar role.
- 4-5 years of experience with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience with scripting or programming languages (e.g., Python, Bash, PowerShell).
- In-depth knowledge of cloud computing platforms such as AWS.
- Proficiency in infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform.
- Strong understanding of networking principles, security best practices, and data management in cloud environments.
- Strong understanding of cloud architecture principles including serverless computing, SaaS implementation and best practices for building scalable and resilient cloud applications.
- Experience with cloud security best practices, including identity and access management (IAM), encryption, SOX compliance and network security.
- Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools for cloud-based infrastructure such as Splunk.
- Experience with configuring, deploying, and maintaining Active Directory services, including group policies, user accounts, and domain controllers.
- Understanding of security best practices for Windows Server environments.
- Knowledge of Windows Server backup and disaster recovery solutions to ensure data protection and business continuity.
Please Note: Any pay ranges displayed are estimations. Actual pay is determined by an applicant's experience, technical expertise, and other qualifications as listed in the job description. All qualified applicants are welcome to apply.
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive list of duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
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