Senior Cloud Engineer

Job Title: Senior Cloud Engineer
Department: IT Operations
Reports to: Director of IT Operations
Summary:
The Senior Cloud Engineer provides cloud solutions support, design, and implementation expertise for all of Pavlov Media. This position will be responsible for championing best practices and managing the development of the cloud environments including AWS and Azure.
Duties/Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the evaluation of cloud strategy and program architecture

• Responsible for gathering system requirements working together with application architects and owners
• Responsible for generating scripts & templates for automatic provisioning of resources
• Discover standard cloud services offerings, install, and execute processes and standards for optimal use of cloud service provider offerings
• Build software for the organization’s systems and ES as a service offering
• Stay well-informed of failures and complications related to the cloud offering
• Responsible for debugging technical issues inside a complex stack involving virtualization, containers, microservices, etc.
• Collaborate with internal teams to enable applications to run on our Cloud infrastructure
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering
• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in Cloud Operations with MS Azure and AWS

• Must have adept technical skills and cognate experience in the following areas: Practical object-oriented development knowledge with at least Scala or Java, knowledge of systems like ZooKeeper, Consul etc., familiarity with containerization technologies such as Docker and Pivotal Cloud Foundry Docker, OpenStack, and Public cloud delivery know-how with AWS and/or Azure
• Relevant cloud certifications such as Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect or AWS Cloud Practitioner

• Communicate clearly to superiors and give understandable instruction to peers
• Should possess an understanding of software development, engineering, programming languages and tools; Java, Python, Ruby, .NET/C#, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PowerShell, CI/CD pipelines, and ability to work with Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, Lean Startup, XP)
• Experience crafting solutions for the server-side of scalable cloud software applications and platforms, skills to architect a highly distributed cloud system and respond to operational issues, experience with cloud migration, as well as experience with OpenStack, Linux, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, DevOps, NoSQL etc.

Physical Requirements:

• Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• Must be able to lift up to 15 pounds at times.

About us:
Come join our rapidly growing team! Pavlov Media is a dynamic company that has been building great networks for over 30 years and has been named by The Silicon Review as one of the 50 Best Companies to watch! Headquartered in Champaign, Illinois, we’re one of the nation’s largest private providers of broadband services, serving communities in 44 US states.
We offer a competitive benefits package which includes:

• Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance on day one
• 3 weeks of PTO
• Paid holidays
• 401K with Company match
• Tuition/professional development reimbursement

Pavlov Media is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.