[Remote] Cloud Engineer III

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Aflac Columbus is seeking a Cloud Engineer III to join its Digital Services division in a remote role within the continental United States. The role focuses on designing, automating, maintaining, and supporting cloud environments, ensuring compliance, reliability, scalability, performance, and cost optimization. The engineer will also provide technical reviews, troubleshoot complex issues, develop operational documentation, and mentor team members and project teams.

Responsibilities

• Ensures that documentation is created and maintained as it relates to all aspects of the Cloud platform implementation
• Ensures that Cloud environments remain in compliance with the current standards and works with consuming teams to update when required
• Develops automation for the standardization of the Cloud environments and architectural design patterns for consumption by project teams
• Provides design and coding reviews for automation and Infrastructure-as-Code
• Ensures that runbooks/playbooks for operational support of the Cloud environments are created and maintained
• Participates in advanced troubleshooting sessions including working with business teams, analyzing logs and data, opening service requests with CSPs, working with Vendors, Partners, and CSP Support, and driving problem resolution
• Reviews architectural designs for applications to ensure reliable and performant design patterns are implemented
• Defines the operational characteristics for that the Cloud-native services
• Ensures that defined and tracked operational metrics for Production performance, reliability, scalability and availability dimensions are within given thresholds and addresses any deviations
• Contributes to the team's continuous improvement through advanced topic research, creation and approval of knowledge articles, presentations, and facilitating discussion groups
• Continuously works to improve the quality and cost optimize of Aflac's Cloud environments
• Continuously learning and mentoring team members and project teams
• Contribute to overall team initiatives including recruiting, training, and speaking engagements
• Performs other duties as required

Skills

• Infrastructure-as-Code expertise (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK)
• Cloud Architecture experience (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Programming/scripting experience (Python, PowerShell, Ruby, Java, JavaScript)
• Configuration Management software experience (Chef, Ansible, Puppet, SaltStack)
• Familiarity with running and scaling distributed software systems (load balancing, high availability, systems monitoring, etc.)
• Familiarity with structured text (JSON, YAML, XML)
• Proven application production support experience
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Passion for automating routine tasks
• Solid understanding of networking and network-related structures
• Willingness to be a part of a culture of continuous improvement
• Ability to lead and work in projects
• Extensive experience with Linux, Unix, and Windows operating systems internals and administration
• Ability to multitask and adapt to quickly changing priorities
• Ability and willingness to work off-hours on occasion
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related field
• 4+ years of experience in cloud architecture, engineering or support
• Extensive experience with multiple programming/scripting languages, Windows and Linux Operating systems, networking, systems and data design and agile methodologies
• Or an equivalent combination of education and experience
• Certification Two or more AWS or Azure

Benefits

• Remote role, working from home within the continental US
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Prescription drug coverage
• Health care flexible spending
• Dependent care flexible spending
• Aflac supplemental Accident, Cancer, Critical Illness and Hospital Indemnity policies offered at no cost to the employee
• 401(k) plans
• Annual bonuses
• Opportunity to purchase company stock
• 11 paid holidays annually
• Up to 20 days PTO to be used for any reason
• If eligible, state-mandated sick leave (Washington employees accrue 1-hour sick leave for every 40 hours worked)
• Other leaves of absence, if eligible, when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being
• Adoption and parental leave in all states and localities

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