Cloud Computing Engineer II (Back-up & Storage)

Job Overview

The Cloud Computing Engineer owns the designs, development, configuration, and delivery of cloud infrastructure environments for a variety of applications across BCBSA using best practices and business acumen. This role includes managing the technological aspects associated with one or more of the following: cloud computing technology stack, including architecture, security, design, planning, management, maintenance, support, storage, and backup.

The scope of the role includes extensive knowledge of on-premise (private), off-premise (public), and hybrid cloud models along with cloud implementation service models (IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS). May manage the technologies and techniques to automate the provisioning and management of software-defined infrastructure in a distributed cloud environment through scripting and coding.

Key Responsibilities

1. Lead/oversee the cloud infrastructure environment construction and implementation during the life cycle of the solutions.
2. Evaluate the success of architecture, network, security, and environment designs as they are implemented.
3. Communicate with management and technical personnel on cloud adoption and usage topics on a continuous basis.
4. Drive the design of self-healing and fault-tolerant cloud services and infrastructure environments with best practice configurations for storage, backup, and recovery.
5. Review and analyze architecture-level security solutions at the domain or product level to transform them into cloud infrastructure designs and implementations.
6. Establish strategic relations with key technology vendors to influence changes in future product releases.
7. Conduct research and benchmark best practices and/or products in the area of cloud technologies.
8. Analyze and modify enterprise technology strategy and architecture.
9. Maintain knowledge of cloud technologies, trends, and standards.
10. Manage cloud configuration to ensure systems are up-to-date with the latest security patches and operational resilience.
11. Develop technical solutions and new security tools to help mitigate security vulnerabilities.
12. Own the development of cloud computing templates and implementation guidance for applications leveraging IaaS solutions.
13. Document new cloud computing application design guidelines for both new business applications and the porting of existing BCBSA business applications to align with a cloud model.
14. Lead projects in close collaboration with network and application security engineers to assure BCBSA applications and systems are designed and configured to conform to security policies and best practices.
15. Lead the ongoing administration, maintenance, and problem resolution of existing SAN/NAS storage infrastructure and related software.

Education

• Required: High School Diploma/GED, Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Security, related discipline, or equivalent experience in the field.
• Masters Degree (preferred)

Certifications

• Certification in one Cloud Platform (AWS or AZURE preferred)

Experience

• 8+ years of enterprise-level Infrastructure consulting or implementation experience.
• Experience in NetApp on-prem storage and FSx, and Veritas NetBackup technologies.
• Experience with Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Powershell, or other automation environments and scripting technologies.
• Experience moving workloads from on-premise to IaaS (Openstack, AWS, Rackspace, Azure, Druva, etc.).
• Experience in networking, including VPN configuration.
• Experience with network technologies and with system, security, and network monitoring tools.

Skills

• Expertise in NetBackup backup/recovery strategies across diverse systems and data types.
• Proficient in VMware virtualization technologies (computing and storage).
• Familiar with containerization.
• Thorough understanding of the latest security principles, techniques, and protocols.

Advanced Working Knowledge Of The Technical Aspects Of

• Application protocols, such as HTTP(S), SMTP, SSL, and DNS.
• Common applications of cryptography, such as X.509 PKI, PGP, etc.
• Knowledge of Active Directory.
• Security event and log management.
• Identity and access management.
• Encryption in the cloud.

People Management

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