Education: Bachelor's degree or related field
Experience: 2+ years
What We're Looking For: Develops most complex technical skill and judgment to provide non-routine technical support for computer/data center operations for cloud environments. Essential Duties/Responsabilities:
- Hands-on Cloud Engineer, to l ead the resolution of complex cloud infrastructure issues, serving as an escalation point for senior and mid-level engineers.
- Enhance the automation and scripting efforts of the cloud team to identify and automate as much routine deployment, configuration, and other operational work as necessary.
- Create and maintain design and architectural artifacts. Ensure uniform architecture and design standards are maintained
- Monitor and facilitate a secure cloud environment that follows the best practices around least privileged and zero trust. Ensure all cloud environments have the proper security and access controls in place to guarantee a trusted and secure environment. Address vulnerability concerns whenever possible.
- Manages access control, data integrity and file system security for the cloud data center environment following RBAC model and principals of least privilege and zero trust security . to ensure reliability, scalability, and maintainability of systems. - Monitor cloud costs across all environments and deploy best practices around FinOps to strive towards cost optimization and accurate cost visibility.
- Develop and enforce best practices architecture, deployment, monitoring , and security to ensure reliability, scalability, and maintainability of systems.
- Manages, tracks and records system performance and utilization metrics.
- Manages the communication behind highly technical information to both technical and nontechnical personnel.
- Promote strong collaboration with business development teams, Including data engineering , IT Teams and S ecurity to align cloud solutions with business goals.
- Conduct research/POC on relevant emerging technologies in support of solution development efforts and make recommendations
- Create and maintain technical documentation, including architectural diagrams, workflows, and operational procedures.
- Mentor and guide junior and senior engineers, fostering technical growth and promoting knowledge sharing within the team.
- Ensure compliance with operational SLAs, security standards, and industry best practices.
- Contribute to the design and execution of disaster recovery and business continuity plans for cloud environments.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. - 8 years of experience in cloud engineering or related roles, with at least 2-3 years in advanced cloud-native development or architecture.
- Expertise in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and their services, including compute, storage, networking, and monitoring. - Proficiency in programming and scripting languages (e.g., Python, Go, Java, PowerShell). - Advanced understanding of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible. - Experience with containerization and orchestration platforms such as Docker and Kubernetes. - Demonstrated experience in designing scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant cloud architectures. - Solid understanding of cloud security principles, including IAM, encryption, and compliance frameworks. - Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to address complex technical challenges. - Excellent collaboration and communication skills to work effectively across teams and stakeholders. - Industry-recognized certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or Google Professional Cloud Architect) are highly desirable.
Incentive
Compensation: In addition to base pay, Zebra offers this role the opportunity to earn a performance-based annual cash incentive, at a target equal to 12% of base pay, in accordance with the terms of the applicable incentive plan.
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