Expert IT Systems - Cloud Operations Engineer

Expert IT Systems - Cloud Operations Engineer

Oxy is an international energy company with assets primarily in the United States, the Middle East and North Africa. We are looking for an experienced and motivated individual to fill the position of Cloud Operations Engineer – Expert IT within our Cloud Operations group based in Houston, Texas. A successful candidate will ultimately be responsible for:

1. Maintaining automated deployment, monitoring, and scaling solutions to ensure the smooth operation of our cloud-based systems.
2. Conduct regular performance assessments and capacity planning to identify and address potential bottlenecks and ensure optimal system performance.
3. Implementing and maintaining robust monitoring, alerting, and incident response systems to proactively identify and resolve issues.
4. Familiarity with Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipelines for cloud infrastructure and applications.
5. Deploying infrastructure using Terraform Cloud to support day-to-day and future operations.
6. Provide technical guidance on reading and creating CloudWatch metrics for both technical and non-technical users.
7. Understanding of AWS IAM permissions with the ability to troubleshoot access issues.
8. Implementing and executing AWS Automation Documents across the organization.
9. Ensuring that SSM agents and CloudWatch agents across the organization are installed and configured properly.
10. Supporting the needs of both technical and non-technical users with ServiceNow ticketing.
11. Troubleshooting various issues utilizing Athena queries for AWS CloudTrail or Systems Manager Inventory.
12. Reviewing configured associations and compliance setup across the organization.
13. Reviewing the AWS Health dashboard and alerts to ensure that any upcoming issues or changes are accounted for.
14. Maintaining the compliance of AWS resource tags and resource groups.
15. Monitor and remediate tasks raised by AWS Systems Manager Explorer.
16. Working with various stakeholders to troubleshoot issues that contain a variety of disciplines.

About the company

Occidental Petroleum Corporation is an American company engaged in hydrocarbon exploration in the United States, the Middle East, and Colombia as well as petrochemical manufacturing in the United States, Canada, and Chile.