Senior Cloud Engineer (AWS) (Bethpage, NY, US) - PSEG
Bethpage, NY
About the Job
Requisition: 80145
PSEG Company: PSEG Long Island
Salary Range: $ 101,600 - $ 160,900
Incentive: PIP 15%
Work Location Category: Remote Local
PSEG operates under a Flexible Work Model where flexible work is offered when job requirements allow. In support of this model, roles have been categorized into one of four work location categories: onsite roles, hybrid roles that are a blend of onsite and remote work, remote local roles that are primarily home-based but require some level of purpose-driven in-person interaction and living within a commutable distance, and remote non-local roles that can be effectively performed remotely with the ability to work in approved states.
We want you to be healthy, balanced, and feel secure. That’s why you’ll enjoy a comprehensive range of benefits, with a focus on supporting your whole health. Starting on day one of your employment, you’ll be offered several health-related benefits including medical, vision, dental, and well-being and behavioral health programs. We also offer a retirement program, 401(k) with company match, company paid life insurance, tuition reimbursement and a minimum of 18 days of paid time off per year.
PSEG offers a unique experience to our more than 12,000 employees – we provide the resources and opportunities for career development that come with being a Fortune 500 company, as well as the attention, camaraderie and care for one another you might typically associate with a small business. Our focus on combatting climate change through clean energy technology, our new net zero climate vision for 2030 and enhanced commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion; and supporting the communities we serve make this a particularly exciting time to join PSEG.
Job Summary
The Senior Technology Software Engineer – supports IT Infrastructure platforms and technologies hosted on-premises and in AWS Virtual Private Cloud. This role is responsible for Cloud Engineering and will provide technical cloud engineering subject matter expertise for multiple technology projects in support of the hosted cloud applications. This includes, enhancing and building tools to driving enhancements of cloud operations, crafting high performance service solutions for enabling better cloud software enabled operations, continuous deployment to build cloud technologies of the future and build solution parity across platforms.
The Cloud Engineer is involved in the full technology life cycle of designing, configuring, developing, documenting and testing of solutions to meet business or technology requirements from application reliability and cyber security hardening perspective. This includes developing, administering and executing preventive maintenance programs, overseeing problem management, performing root cause analysis and corrective action plans. Responsible for the day-to-day administration, technical support, troubleshooting, maintenance, upgrades, patching, performance and overall health of a variety of cyber security tools within a Microsoft Windows, Linux and UNIX server environments. Strong understanding across Cloud and infrastructure components (server, storage, network, data, and applications), security best practices and automation technologies to deliver end to end Cloud Infrastructure architectures and designs. Cloud Engineer is responsible for creating reference architectures, best practices and procedures.
Job Responsibilities
• Designing the cloud infrastructure, designing the cloud application architecture, and designing the cloud security architecture and ensuring project compliance with IT security policies, best practices and branch standards.
• Working with IT staff and management, and cloud technology vendors to plan, design, build, implement, and support new and existing cloud hosting services.
• Build tools and automation to PSEG LI achieve better availability, scalability, latency and efficiency.
• Monitor production and development environments to build preventive measures to enable a fail-safe experience to our customers.
• Document and communicate clearly to architect and implement solutions.
• Work closely across teams and bridge the gap between product managers, architects, and implement reliable consistent solutions.
• Work with delivery teams on software improvements to achieve higher availability and lower meant time to discovery (MTTD).
• Work with the groups within IT and Cyber security for related Infrastructure projects and initiatives including security policies for endpoint devices
• Interface with other areas of IT for engineering and infrastructure support
• Work within established configuration and change management policies to ensure awareness, approval and success of changes made to the environment.
• Ensure Quality Control and Assurance procedures are consistent with Infrastructure specifications, client requirements and corporate policies.
• Perform reviews and/or Root Cause Analysis on production systems failures, formulate corrective action plans, ensure corrective actions are implemented, and track their effectiveness.
• Requires working in a 24x7 environment with callout
Job Specific Qualifications
Required:
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Math or related technical field.
• A minimum of 6 years of experience within the IT field or an industry with reliance on technical expertise.
• Demonstrated knowledge of Information Technology principles including Infrastructure support, system administration, and application support and/or application development techniques.
• Excellent knowledge of cloud computing technologies, cloud service providers and current cloud computing trends.
• Deep understanding of ALB, EC2, ECS, S3, and networking including VPC ad and VPN configurations
• Strong understanding of AWS security best practices, including VPC design, IAM roles and policies
• Strong working experience in developing Infrastructure as Code CloudFormation templates for Infrastructure automation.
• Ability diagnose and resolve complex Infrastructure issues in mixed on-prem and AWS environment workloads
• Experience in the identification and recommendation of top cloud architecture solutions to successfully meet the strategic needs of an organization.
• Experience working on multiple simultaneous IT projects throughout the entire life cycle
• Experience managing technical projects, including conflict resolution, issue escalations, status reporting and resource management
• Knowledgeable of enterprise network infrastructure design concepts such as:
o Client / server system architecture, routing, switching, security, remote access, proxy
o Cloud hosting solutions and migration to cloud services
• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot and make recommendations using critical thinking, sound judgment, and decision making processes and techniques in a fast-paced, mixed technology environment
• Demonstrated ability to create both technical and non-technical end-user documentation
• Must be detail oriented and demonstrate strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Must demonstrate strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work effectively with clients, leadership, and all levels of staff.
Desired Qualifications:
• Certification in Microsoft Azure Cloud and/or Amazon Web Services
Azure Administrator Associate, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure Security Engineer
AWS Solutions Architect, AWS DevOps Engineer, AWS SysOps Administrator
• 4+ years of public cloud experience (GCP, AWS or OpenStack)
• Experience with Incident Management Process, SRE best practices and continuous improvements.
• Ability to troubleshoot and make recommendations using critical thinking, sound judgment, and decision making processes and techniques in a fast-paced, mixed technology environment
Minimum Years of Experience
Education
Certifications
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