Location: Remote – US Must be PT or MT location
Contract Type: Contractor (with potential for extension)
Compensation: $52-72 USD per hour
Job Summary:
We are seeking an experienced Cloud Operations Engineer to manage and optimize cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. The role involves ensuring high availability, scalability, and security of cloud environments; automating deployments through Infrastructure as Code (IaC); and supporting incident response, migrations, and upgrades.
The ideal candidate has a strong background in cloud operations, automation, and DevOps, with expertise in Linux/Windows administration, scripting (Python, PowerShell), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and CI/CD tools. A proven ability to troubleshoot complex cloud issues, implement best practices, and collaborate across teams is essential.
Responsibilities:
- Manage and maintain cloud infrastructure on platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
- Monitor cloud resources to ensure availability and scalability.
- Monitor and optimize cloud resource utilization.
- Respond to and resolve time-critical customer issues in the public cloud.
- Troubleshoot cloud-related infrastructure incidents and issues.
- Perform customer deployments, migrations, and upgrades in the cloud environment.
- Support automation projects, writing infrastructure as code (IaC) for provisioning and scaling resources.
- Assist in ensuring security best practices for cloud are followed and customer data is secured.
- Perform database operations such as backup and restores.
- Collaborate with development, devops and support teams to deploy and manage cloud-based applications and resolve issues.
- Create and maintain documentation for cloud infrastructure and processes.
- Stay up-to-date with cloud technology trends and best practices.
- Propose and implement improvements to cloud operations processes.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, MIS, or related technology field, or equivalent practical experience
- 8+ years of experience in cloud operations and infrastructure management in AWS, Azure, or Google cloud
- 5+ years in incident response and major incident management
- Advanced Linux and Windows experience
- Certification in AWS, Azure or Google Cloud is a plus.
- Solid understanding of Cloud networking and security
- Strong scripting and automation skills (e.g., Python, Powershell)
- Proficiency in infrastructure as code (IaC) and configuration management tools. (e.g, Terraform, Ansible)
- Expert knowledge in containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker Kubernetes, Rancher)
- Experience in version control, CI and automation tools such as Github/Bitbucket, Github Actions, Jenkins, Rundeck)
- Experience in deploying and troubleshooting Java based applications and microservices.
- Experience in deploying, configuring, and troubleshooting Database technologies like MSSQL, PostgreSQL and MongoDB
- Experience in monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Nagios, Prometheus, ELK stack)
- Experience with the following technologies: Virtualization, VPN, RDP, SSO, Kafka
- Experience working with Confluence/Jira
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What We Do
Centric Software® is the innovator behind the #1 Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) platform, Centric PLM™, that is blazing the trail for brands, manufacturers and retailers across all segments of the consumer goods industry. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Centric Software has shattered the mold to create state-of-the-art digital solutions to satisfy the needs of every player in the market, large and small, and supports their mission to develop high-quality, sustainable products that are on time and on trend.
- Centric PLM delivers enterprise-class merchandise planning, product development, sourcing, quality and product portfolio optimization innovations specifically for fast-moving consumer industries. Centric PLM streamlines the product development process from concept to retail.
- Centric Planning provides best-in-class data and visually driven financial, merchandise and assortment planning as well as store and vendor forecasting to maximize margins and for seamless and fast, pre and in-season execution.
- Centric Visual Boards improves collaboration and decision-making of merchandising and buying teams through intuitive digital boards, driving innovation and decreasing time to market.
All Centric solutions are market-driven, ensuring they meet the needs of customers. These innovations include the first ever PLM mobile apps, 3D CAD connectors, sustainability integrations, and more. Centric Software has the highest user adoption rates in the industry and proudly maintains a 99% customer retention rate due to its seamless implementation methodology which ensures that 100% of its customers go live. Centric Software is proud to provide the best solution, backed by the best team to service the best customers.
Centric Software is a subsidiary of Dassault Systèmes (Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA). For more information, please visit www.centricsoftware.com.
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