Cloud Engineer
Company: Champion Homes
Location: Troy
Posted on: March 19, 2023
Job Description:
SUMMARY This role will play a key role in Champion Homes
technology modernization and strategic growth initiatives. The
Cloud Engineer will contribute to implementing, managing and
maintaining the Company's cloud environments, including Oracle
Fusion Cloud, Microsoft 365 / Azure, and AWS footprints. The ideal
candidate will be detail oriented with a strong understanding of
and demonstrated experience architecting and implementing hybrid
cloud environments, including SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, etc. They should
also have experience designing and managing these environments for
compliance and security requirements and leveraging automation in
testing, deployment, and maintenance activities. ESSENTIAL DUTIES
AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Oversee both the technical and functional/strategic needs of
Champion Home's cloud infrastructure including automation and
orchestration, active management of cloud storage and backups,
alignment to business continuity and disaster recovery and security
requirements
- Serve in a consultative capacity to monitor cloud utilization,
capacity, cost management and optimization, software delivery,
security, resource orchestration, configuration management,
monitoring, business continuity, disaster recovery and emergency
response
- Continuously identify improvements to the efficient and
effective use of cloud resources to meet strategic objectives
- Serve as a cloud engineering SME and contribute to the managing
the overall Enterprise Architecture of Champion Homes aligned to
business needs and capabilities
- Work with project managers, business analysts, and business
owners to confirm developed solutions align with existing
standards, meet security controls, and align to cloud best
practices
- Contribute expertise to development of technical requirements
as part of cross-functional project teams, and offer ideas for how
cloud technologies influence the new designs, standards, and
methods for scalable, highly available distributed systems
- Participate in project / implementation milestone activities,
code reviews, architecture / design sessions and on-call support as
needed
- Contribute to go-live and cutover activities and post-go-live
warranty support activities as need to ensure successful transition
of new cloud environments to production operations
- Deploy scalable and resilient cloud infrastructure using
automation, configuration management and deployment tools to manage
production environment
- Design and utilize automated deployment processes and
Infrastructure as Code scripts to improve automation, efficiency,
consistency and adherence to security and audit requirements and
controls, security requirements and certify all logging and
monitoring are active for security and compliance
- Implement, operate, and optimize CI/CD pipelines for effective
delivery of cloud resources and software
- Perform analysis and assist in resolving performance and
availability issues affecting internal business users and key
external stakeholders where appropriate
- Design and implement proactive monitoring, alerting, trend
analysis and self-healing systems across cloud environments
- Participate in incident management processes, driving service
restoration, and learning from past issues with critical cloud
technology services and leverage automation to prevent problem
recurrence
- Provide technical support to end-users in co-operation with the
Level 1 help desk support REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS Education,
Training and/or Experience Bachelor's degree in Information
Systems, Computer Science, or related field of study and 8-10
years' combined experience in the following.
- 7+ years of experience in IT Infrastructure design, management,
and migration of technologies from on-prem to cloud
environments
- 3+ years of experience building, deploying and managing public
cloud IaaS and PaaS services
- Experience in managing an Oracle Fusion Cloud environment
- Team leader or small-team supervisory experience a plus
Technical Knowledge and Skills
- Demonstrated experience with Cloud and DevOps best
practices
- Experience building an automated cloud infrastructure across
development, test, and production environments
- Expertise in scripting, orchestration and automation of builds,
workflows, tasks, etc.
- Hands-on operational experience with Windows, Linux and
VMware
- Experience with container orchestration
- Experience with Serverless architecture design, implementation
and deployment
- Cloud configuration management, Infrastructure as Code
toolsets
- Experience developing capabilities in a cloud environment for
service monitoring, automated remediation, system availability,
capacity / utilization analysis, security compliance and
vulnerability management Personal Characteristics
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills: ability to
communicate with all levels, ability to speak clearly and
persuasively in positive or negative situations, write clearly and
informatively in various formats.
- Business-focused, team-oriented self-starter.
- Strong motivation, good organizational skills.
- Demonstrates a reliable, dependable, and trustworthy work
ethic.
- Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending
educational workshops, reviewing professional publications, and
establishing personal networks. Applicable Technical Skills
- Cloud+, AWS Certified Solutions Architect or Microsoft Cloud
Certification desired
- Cloud ERP management
- Oracle Fusion Cloud desired
- Network concepts and technology such as TCP/IP, UDP, MAC
addresses, IP packets, DNS, OSI layers, ACLs, routing tables, VPN
and load balancing.
- CI/CD tools (Jenkins, CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy,
Bamboo)
- Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet and
Chef)
- Containerization Tools (Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, Mesosphere,
AWS ECS/EKS)
- Manufacturing industry experience a plus PREFERRED
QUALIFICATIONS
- Proficiency in Python, Ruby, Java, Bash or similar
languages
- Experience analyzing logs using tools, such as Splunk or
similar
- Experience with instrumenting and monitoring production systems
utilizing monitoring tools WORK LOCATION AND TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS
- Willingness to travel to regional business offices,
manufacturing facilities, and other locations as required - Up to
25% travel
- Remote work is acceptable with periodic travel to core
locations for engagement and interaction with key stakeholders and
leadership This position description is not intended to be a
complete list of all responsibilities, duties or skills required
for the job and is subject to review and change at any time, with
or without notice, in accordance with the needs of Champion Homes.
Since no position description can detail all the duties and
responsibilities that may be required from time to time in the
performance of a job, duties and responsibilities that may be
inherent in a job, reasonably required for its performance, or
required due to the changing nature of the job shall also be
considered part of the jobholder's responsibility. Job Posted by
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Keywords: Champion Homes, Troy , Cloud Engineer, Other , Troy, Michigan
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