The Public Cloud Data Services Engineer will be instrumental in implementing the architecture and the engineering processes and best practices to provide data services in the public cloud. This role is responsible for all data services in public cloud including relational databases, NoSQL databases, BigData, messaging and streaming, and analytics and machine learning. The ideal candidate has experience in professional software development, designing and creating highly available cloud systems, and has the ability to implement cloud strategy. Advanced industry knowledge is key, as well as knowledge in building an engineering organization. The role requires a talented technologist with experience engaging with application developers throughout the full development life-cycle – from inception and design to deployment, operation, and iterative development.

Responsibilities

• Provide relational and NoSQL databases, caching technologies, messaging and search productions in public cloud
• Deliver the tooling and capabilities needed to enable our cloud first strategy
• Provide developer-friendly cloud onboarding to new data services users
• Engineer and secure data service solutions (self-managed platforms and Cloud Native) that are scalable and highly available
• Support new development and initial migration efforts from on-prem databases
• Develop, cascade and enforce engineering best practices using modern SDLC that enables CI/CD and favors automation, auditability, automated testing, infrastructure and policy as code
• Provide technical leadership in the design of highly complex cloud systems
• Develop and advocate for new cloud native solutions to undefined system needs, where no solution is available within the technical community
• Drive client satisfaction by identifying and developing process improvement and automation initiatives while ensuring compliance of solutions to operations roadmap

Basic Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in related field or equivalent experience
• Hands on experience developing and engineering software and consumer facing applications
• Suggest methods and new technologies for increasing the effectiveness of changes and of general production support improvements
• Familiarity with Domain Driven Design and Event Driven Architecture
• Experience working with relational/NoSQL databases
• Experience working in a distributed, cloud-based environment using Azure/AWS/GCP (Docker/Kubernetes)
• Experience in developing software using languages such as Java, Python, C++ or Ruby.
• Experience with Service Oriented Architecture applications and cloud-based services, preferably AWS.
• Experience with modern SDLC tools, branching strategies, and ability to develop and enforce CI/CD practices
• Experience working with Linux/UNIX, Docker

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience as an AWS Solutions Architect, Cloud Security Certification, and/or OpenStack Administrator Certification a plus. (Other cloud-related certification also a plus.)
• Experience with TDD and automated UI testing frameworks
• Experience working with any design frameworks
• Experience with mobile web development
• Developer level operations proficiency — ability to set up a machine, knowledge of networking, familiarity with load balancers, hypervisors, CDNs, etc