NTT DATA : Cloud Engineer

Developer is needed in Phoenix, United States.

Client: NTT DATA

Location: Phoenix, United States

Contract: Temporary

NTT Data is assisting our healthcare client in search for a Temporary to Hire Cloud Engineer III located in the Phoenix metro.

Type:

Temp

Location:

Must be local to metro Phoenix. Need to come in monthly for some meetings.

Purpose of the job

The Cloud Engineer is responsible for implementing the company’s cloud computing strategy. This includes implementation, collaborating on strategy and roadmaps, developing infrastructure diagrams and designs, and providing governance. Cloud Engineers work with cross-functional teams including Infrastructure, Operations, Security, Business and Application Development. Cloud solutions include public cloud, private cloud, and hybrid cloud. Additionally, Cloud Engineers act as consultants to the organization and need to stay up to date on the latest trends and issues.

Essential Job Duties (Performs job functions with moderate supervision and or peer review)

• Provide implementation and experience during all cloud adoption activities.
• Serve as technical owner and IT focal point for all public, private and hybrid cloud IaaS and PaaS solutions including containerization solutions.
• Setup and maintain monitoring, metrics & reporting systems for fine-grained observability and actionable alerting.
• Diagnose and troubleshoot cloud related issues escalated by service desk teams or routed via incident management in a 24x7 environment.
• Communicates effectively with Development and Operations teams to align on requirements, driving SDLC requirements, capabilities, and limitations pertinent to delivering highly resilient applications.
• Collaborate on standards and policies for cloud IaaS and PaaS service adoption, providing clarity for enabling compliant and secure Cloud solutions that meet project and initiative milestones.
• Research and benchmarks best practices and/or products in cloud technologies. Routinely gathers and assesses changing business needs. Analyzes and modifies enterprise technology strategy and architecture. Analyzes how business processes interact with technology to create value for the business.
• Establish cloud computing templates and implementation guidance for applications that leverage laaS solutions to meet the use cases. Integrate application design strategies to include the design of loosely coupled cloud resources to allow for a redundant and resilient end user application design.
• Has an 'Automation First” mindset. Responsible for evaluating and implementing orchestration, automation, and tooling solutions to ensure consistent processes and repetitive tasks are performed with the highest level of accuracy and reduced defects.
• Collaborate on a cloud governance model and maintain it. This includes configuration, access and cost management.
• Ensures cloud solutions are production ready and meet the defined specifications, and that the solution can be maintained via production support methodologies and resources.
• Collaborate on and execute on near/mid/long term cloud strategy and roadmaps (0-60 months), adherence to and in support of enterprise standards, policy, strategy and roadmaps.

Qualifications

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 4 Years experience with implementing and maintaining public, private and hybrid virtualization, converged and hyperconverged compute and storage platforms as well as IaaS and PaaS cloud solutions, troubleshooting problems, with an emphasis on technical problem solving.
• 4 Years experience with automation, deploying Infrastructure as code through Agile process and pipelines. Strategic implementations and maintenance of these solutions. Experience with deployment / administration of Cloud technologies
• 1 Year experience in project management and delivery leadership
• Experience in cloud and infrastructure architecture

Education

High School Diploma or GED in general field of study required. Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or related field preferred.

Preferred Certifications

Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Microsoft Azure DevOps Engineer AWS Solutions Architect CCNA Cloud

REQUIRED COMPETENCIES

• Intermediate skill in use of office equipment, including copiers, fax machines, scanner and telephones.
• Intermediate PC proficiency
• Intermediate proficiency in spreadsheet, database and word processing software
• Knowledge of Cloud IaaS and PaaS solutions
• Knowledge of Microsoft Windows and Linux Operating Systems
• Knowledge of hypervisors such as VMware, Microsoft or Nutanix
• Knowledge of containerization solutions such as Docker, Azure AKS or other Kubernetes platforms
• Knowledge of on-premise compute platforms such as Cisco, Client or Dell EMC
• Knowledge of on-premise storage platforms such as Pure, NetApp or Dell EMC
• Knowledge of automation for implementing Infrastructure as Code and Agile pipelines using solutions such as VMWare vRealize, Terraform, Chef, Puppet, Ansible or PowerShell.
• Knowledge of network concepts including routing and firewall controls
• Knowledge of deploying, monitoring, and maintaining servers
• Knowledge of identity and access controls
• Knowledge of security controls

Experience level:

4 years

Schedule:

8 hour shift

Ability to commute/relocate:

Phoenix, AZ 85021: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Application Question(s):

Have you worked for NTT Data, Dell Services, or Perot Systems before?

Experience:

Virtualization: 4 years (Required) IaaS and PaaS cloud solutions: 4 years (Required) automation, deploying Infrastructure as code through Agile: 4 years (Required) VMWare vRealize, Terraform, Chef, Puppet, PowerShell: 2 years (Required)

License/Certification:

Microsoft Azure DevOps Engineer (Preferred)

Work Location:

Hybrid remote in Phoenix, AZ 85021