Cloud Engineer

Job Duties and Responsibilities

Provide technical leadership for building a high functioning Cloud Engineering and services (security, automation) organization that delivers high quality secure services.

This role is able to perform solution design, architectural review, implement proof-of-concepts, standardize solutions, and develop operational handoff of solutions

Responsible for maturing the automation for building and deploying cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure-As-Code solutions and integrating infrastructure builds with security controls for proactively detecting and handling non-compliance.

Design solutions for improving Cloud Security posture and for increased and automated enforcement of cloud security guardrails.

Enable broader adoption of High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery ( DR) solutions for improving the resiliency of all Dish Cloud solutions.

Work collaboratively with application architects, application & analytics teams, and vendor partners for broader adoption of Cloud Infrastructure and Cloud Engineering.

Provides technical leadership within the area of expertise and mentors junior engineers.

Collaborate with teams and leadership within IT and with business partners to advance our technical capabilities and provide data solutions that drive business results

Learn and keep pace with the latest advances in the field and rapidly grasp new technologies to lead and support the environment and project deliverables.

Skills, Experience and Requirements

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience; Master's degree (preferred) plus 7+ years of IT Experience

3+ years' experience in Enterprise-Scale AWS environments

Expert level proficiency with AWS services like EC2, RDS, Lambda, ECS, EKS

Highly experienced with Infrastructure-As-Code (IaC) automation tools like Terraform.

Proven experience working hands-on with AWS Identity and Access Management service

Solid understanding of AWS Cloud Security best practices

Familiarity with Cloud security frameworks (NIST, CIS, CCM)

Experience with OAuth2, SSO, and Identify providers like Okta, Piand ngFederate.

3+ years' software development experience in Java/Python

2+ years' hands-on experience with Containers (Docker, Kubernetes, EKS) and Serverless (AWS Lambda)

2+ years' experience with CI/CD & DevOps solutions (Jenkins, Gitlab)

Highly passionate about Cloud Cost optimization solutions

Technology or platform certifications (e.g. AWS, Microsoft) Preferred