The final salary or hourly wage, as applicable, paid to each candidate/applicant for this position is ultimately dependent on a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, the candidate’s/applicant’s qualifications, skills, and level of experience as well as the geographical location of the position.

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Sponsorship not available.

Our client is seeking an Cloud Engineer in Greensboro, NC.

Role Description

The Cloud Engineer will be an integral member of newly formed Cloud team. The Cloud team is a team of full-time cloud resources that will drive and guide cloud adoption across our organization. This team is responsible for the development and delivery of our Continuous Infrastructure Automation platform which will be leveraged across multiple cloud platforms.

• Act as a consultative resource for our application teams to help to deliver applications/services in multi-cloud.
• Operationalize cloud workloads for internal customers by implementing monitoring, logging, backup & recovery, security hardening, etc.
• Help internal customers troubleshoot and resolve issues with cloud workloads.
• Participate in the development and delivery of Developer Experience platform and Continuous Infrastructure Automation Self Service Platform
• Development of new AI features around typical Developer questions and the creation of a portal that becomes a single pane of glass for our development community to interact with their daily development and workflow toolsets.

Skills & Requirements

• Years of Related Professional Experience: 3+ years
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems or equivalent experience in cloud engineering
• Experience with development experience portals such as Port or Backstage is a plus.
• Experience with public cloud offerings such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure (5+ years)
• Experience with application programming language (Java, Rust, Go, Python, Ruby, JavaScript/TypeScript, etc.)
• Experience using infrastructure automation tools such as Ansible, Terraform is preferred
• Experience using CI/CD and automation tools such as GitLab, Jenkins is a plus.
• Experience working with git-based repository tools such as Azure DevOps is a plus.
• Familiarity with Cloud Native engineering (K8s, Containers, Docker, Serverless, etc.)
• Familiarity with the cloud networking concepts and native tools, such as NSGs, ASGs, WAFs, Load Balancers and requirements
• Ability to multi-task, be a strong team player, and have strong organizational skills and time management skills
• Strong knowledge of ITIL, SDLC, DevOps and agile processes and practices
• Experience following enterprise change and release management processes
• Requires some degree of sitting (for prolonged periods of time), standing, lifting, carrying pushing, pulling more than 20 lbs.
• May require extended work hours including participation in on-call rotations.
• Travel by air and overnight, as required 25% amount of time.

Benefits/Other Compensation
This position is a contract/temporary role where Hays offers you the opportunity to enroll in full medical benefits, dental benefits, vision benefits, 401K and Life Insurance ($20,000 benefit).

Why Hays?

You will be working with a professional recruiter who has intimate knowledge of the industry and market trends. Your Hays recruiter will lead you through a thorough screening process in order to understand your skills, experience, needs, and drivers. You will also get support on resume writing, interview tips, and career planning, so when there’s a position you really want, you’re fully prepared to get it.

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Hays is committed to building a thriving culture of diversity that embraces people with different backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better we serve our candidates, clients, and employees. We are an equal employment opportunity employer, and we comply with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination based on race, color, creed, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, marital status, genetic information, HIV-positive status, as well as any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. One of Hays’ guiding principles is ‘do the right thing’.
We also believe that actions speak louder than words.
In that regard, we train our staff on ensuring inclusivity throughout the entire recruitment process and counsel our clients on these principles. If you have any questions about Hays or any of our processes, please contact us.

In accordance with applicable federal, state, and local law protecting qualified individuals with known disabilities, Hays will attempt to reasonably accommodate those individuals unless doing so would create an undue hardship on the company. Any qualified applicant or consultant with a disability who requires an accommodation in order to perform the essential functions of the job should call or text 813.336.5570.

Drug testing may be required; please contact a recruiter for more information.

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