DevOps Cloud Engineer

*Job Title:* *Senior DevOps Cloud Engineer - Hybrid* * *Type:* Hybrid Schedule/ Full Time (2-3 days on-site work per week, 2-3 days work from home) * *Location:* Fort Lauderdale, FL * *Compensation:* $150k - $169k Annually *The Hiring Company:* A highly-respected name, in the financial services industry, and with over 70 years of experience, our clients group of companies are known as both high-quality service providers, and a forward-thinking partner. The founding family still runs the company and continues to provide a broad range of financial services to their clients worldwide. True to their founding principles, they tailor solutions to clients exact needs, continually investing in their network to deliver the highest-quality solutions. *Overview:* ** Proprietary software solutions and innovation are at the core of what differentiates our client in the alternative investment space. As a core member of their Product Development team, the Cloud DevOps Engineer, will be working as part of a cross-functional team and will be responsible for designing and implementing re-usable frameworks, APIs, CI/CD pipelines, test automation, infrastructure automation leveraging modern cloud agnostic architecture and GCP/AWS services. *What you will be doing:* You will design and implement end to end highly scalable and resilient cloud engineering solutions for infrastructure and application services using GCP/AWS Cloud Services. * Implement CI /CD capabilities for infrastructure and applications * Contribute in the architecting and implementation of cloud-agnostic and cloud migration solutions * Write infrastructure automation scripts and templates, and integrating with DevOps tools * Write test automation scripts such as unit tests, integration tests, performance tests * Work closely with members of the Architecture and Development teams * Communicate and report on assigned tasks * Take responsibility and exhibit ownership of assigned tasks * Follow emerging technologies * What you must have: * You have a Bachelors degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent. * 8+ years in IT or Software Engineering including 3 years in GCP/AWS cloud environment * Minimum 3 years of DevOps experience * Experience in writing Terraform IaC scripts is a must * Highly proficient in writing terraform IaC scripts for deploying applications using containers on Kubernetes * Working experience in configuring Cloud Applications so that they can seamlessly failover to another region in Cloud * Highly proficient in Python and nice to have Java, Node JS * Experience in setting up and troubleshooting GCP/AWS production environments * Experience in designing, building, testing, and deploying highly scalable and resilient cloud-based infrastructure * Experience designing and implementing end to end CI/CD Delivery pipelines * Advanced hands-on skills operating in Linux and Windows * Proven knowledge of application architecture, networking, security, reliability and scalability concepts, software design principles and patterns * Knowledge of financial industry is a plus * Self-motivated, innovative and analytical with strong attention to detail * Strong sense of responsibility and service minded attitude * Willingness to learn new skills and to contribute to a team culture centered on continuous improvement * Organized, accurate and self-motivated * Think creatively and propose options/solutions to challenges * Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to interact effectively in a global team environment