This position is responsible for providing secure, scalable cloud-based solutions. The Cloud Engineer ensures servers and services are configured using industry best practices for reliability and can scale environments based on client needs. You should be patient, possess strong communication skills, and demonstrate a desire to learn new technologies.
Responsibilities
- Provide and design secure, scalable solutions in the cloud for client environments
- Implement system hardening, security best practices, and configuration management across cloud infrastructure and client servers
- Build and manage code release pipelines for development, staging, and production environments
- Implement and maintain infrastructure as code
- Configure new CloudWatch monitoring alerts and dashboards
- Maintain uptime, service reliability, and sustainability of cloud infrastructure and hosted applications
- Maintain an accurate inventory of existing server, storage, networking, software/hardware, and virtual environments to support scaling for various project requirements
- Help developers and DevOps teams build new services using containers (Docker/Kubernetes)
- Identify pain points and bottlenecks in the development lifecycle, and find ways to automate processes to support development and IT teams
- Ensure servers and services are configured using standard best practices for reliability and scale based on client needs
As a Senior Engineer, your additional responsibilities will include:
- Independently driving the design and implementation of cloud solutions, identifying infrastructure needs and executing deployments with minimal supervision
- Conducting in-depth reviews of infrastructure architecture, code (Terraform, CloudFormation), and deployment pipelines to ensure alignment with security standards, scalability goals, and best practices
- Mentoring junior engineers, offering technical guidance, reviewing their work, and supporting professional development through knowledge sharing and collaboration
The ideal candidate for the position should have the following skills and experience:
Technical Qualifications
- Experience working on cloud providers like AWS, Azure, and GCP
- Experience in Windows Server, Linux server administration
- Experience in Amazon Services like EC2, RDS, Aurora, S3, CloudFront, VPC, ECS, etc
- Experience in creating and executing IaC using Terraform and CloudFormation
- Experience in the setup and configuration of containerization using Docker, ECS, EKS
- Good understanding of using monitoring tools like PRTG, Amazon CloudWatch, New Relic, Prometheus and Grafana
- Good understanding of networking concepts to help implement new services and troubleshoot issues—DNS, DHCP, software update server, deployment server, file server, firewall, routing, switching
- Good knowledge of implementing and configuring continuous integration tools like Jenkins, GitLab
- Knowledge of creating scripts using Bash, Python, AutoIT
Personal Skills
- Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, with a range of stakeholders—from junior developers to executive leadership and clients
- Ability to communicate clearly in a client-facing role and respond confidently to client queries
- Ability to manage and contribute to multiple projects, including supporting cloud-based solutions across client environments
- Ability to identify optimal solutions quickly and apply timely fixes when needed
- Ability to remain calm and professional while troubleshooting and resolving support issues
- Ability to work effectively in a collaborative, team-oriented environment
- Ability to learn new concepts and software tools quickly
- Ability to adapt to changing priorities by adjusting tasks and schedules as required
Education and Experience
- Bachelor's degree in a computer-related field
- Minimum of 3 years of relevant experience in cloud engineering or infrastructure roles
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What We Do
Creative Capsule was founded in 2003 in Kansas City and since then has grown into a team of more than 200 motivated software professionals in Overland Park Kansas, Zürich Switzerland, and Goa India. Our founders continue to be involved in day-to-day operations, bringing an overriding customer focus and a dedication to technical excellence. Many of our best clients are rapidly evolving SaaS and software startup companies and life sciences companies who share our passion for innovation.
Creative Capsule builds lasting development relationships. We create highly skilled and effective software teams that integrate seamlessly with our clients’ organizations. We do not deliver one-off projects. Instead, we work to understand each client’s unique business needs and culture, and then construct cohesive teams that empower our partners and strengthen their delivery capabilities.
Creative Capsule helps clients to transform their software delivery capacity. For each client, we build a dedicated development group that works hand-in-hand with their organization, creating a single virtual team. We ensure a close fit with each client by selecting team members that have technical and personal attributes that resonate with the client’s needs and culture. Each of our teams spans continents, providing an optimized balance of responsive local presence and cost-effective offshore resources, while operating as a single innovative and agile force that shares risks and rewards.
