Cloud Engineer

Kforce has a client in Chicago, IL that is seeking a Cloud Engineer. Summary: We are looking for a motivated and experienced technical leader to be a key player in changing how we deliver technology for our Wealth Corporate Commercial and Institutional Banking businesses. This person will have a direct and far-reaching impact on migrating our large portfolio of applications to Azure Public Cloud. This role requires working across a broad spectrum of technology and stakeholders. There could not be a better time to join our team as we transform how we deliver technology and value for our customers. Responsibilities:

• Partner with application teams on their journey to Public Cloud
• Key technical lead and liaison between application teams and enterprise cloud migration initiative
• Identify end to end DevOps solutions, leverage best practices and patterns
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
• Minimum 10 years of experience with developing and implementing applications and end-to-end solutions
• At least 5 years of progressive experience with the concepts and tools behind the design and implementation of best-in-class CI/CD, application monitoring and resilience on Public Cloud.
• Self-starter who can pick up new technologies/skills, be comfortable with ambiguity and drive initiatives forward
• Roll up sleeves and get teams over tricky CI/CD challenges

• Must have hands-on experience deploying and running applications on Public Cloud (Azure preferrable, AWS) from Development through Production
• Very strong Interpersonal skills with excellent verbal and written communication
• Proven track record with IaC, CI/CD/DevOps/DevSecOps, Test Automation, Supportability
• Core toolsets include Terraform, Ansible, Gitlab CI/CD, Jira, Datadog
• App Stack Exposure - .NET/Java/Spring, REST, Microservice, React, Docker/K8s; On-prem/Azure and/or AWS
• Azure IaaS/PaaS expert experience. Define/create runtime environment, network, storage, etc.
• Database experience - DML/DDL deployment for Microsoft SQL Server (must have), Cassandra (nice to have)
• End to end System Solutioning on Cloud for - Resilience, Security, Performance, Availability, Scalability
• Financial Services domain knowledge is highly desirable