Senior Cloud Ops Engineer

Project description

As a Senior Cloud Operations Engineer, you will be responsible for implementing and maintaining a highly scalable and secure cloud infrastructure. The role involves applying best practices in cloud governance, security, monitoring, and continuous deployment (CI/CD) to ensure smooth and efficient cloud operations. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance cloud efficiency, reliability, and security while ensuring compliance with industry/security standards.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and administer cloud environments across platforms; provide support for a broad range of cloud services, ensuring consistent support delivery and timely resolution of issues

Implement and enforce governance policies, such as access control, tagging, cost management, guardrails, SCPs, and resource monitoring, to ensure adherence to company-wide security standards.

Proactively identify security vulnerabilities and mitigate risks.

Implement, and manage automation scripts and tools to streamline cloud operations, including infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and monitoring

Design, implement, and manage CI/CD pipelines for the automated deployment of applications and services in a scalable and secure manner.

Monitor system performance, analyze metrics, and implement improvements to ensure efficient utilization of cloud resources

Collaborate with peers on troubleshooting technical issues; assist in implementing technical strategies established by the team

Aid in implementing disaster recovery strategies to ensure data protection and maintain business continuity in accordance with the team's guidelines

Act with integrity, professionalism, and personal responsibility to uphold Optum's respectful and courteous work environment

SKILLS

Must have

• 8+ years of experience

3+ years Leadership / Supervisory experience

Strong understanding of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.

Proficiency in data analysis and programming languages like Python, PowerShell.

Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and Advanced CI/CD expertise with GitHub actions.

Proficiency with Cloud monitoring and Cloud networking

Ability to utilize AI for automation and analysis

• AWS / Azure / GCP
• Python, PowerShell
• Terraform (Infrastructure as Code) proficiency
• Advanced CI/CD expertise with GitHub Actions

Nice to have

• Tagging
• Guardrails
• SCPs
• Continuous deployment
• Automated deployment of applications and services
• Scalable and secure cloud infrastructure
• Compliance with industry/security standards
• Collaboration with cross-functional teams
• Technical strategy implementation