Cloud Engineer

W2 candidates only, C2C candidates will not be considered Job Description We are looking for a passionate, self-motivated Software Engineer with strong programming fundamentals, software design and practices to help build and manage our cloud platform. In this role, you will have a great opportunity to marry your full-stack software engineering skills with hands on cloud development. Join our talented team of engineers, designing and building the foundation that propels our business to harness the power of cloud. Experience: • Bachelor’s degree or higher in a technology related field (e.g. Engineering, Computer Science, etc.) • 5+ years of software engineering experience • Passion for excellence, automation, innovation, and collaboration. • Eager to learn new technologies, ways of working, and to adapt every day. • Bring curiosity and a questioning mind-set to work, injecting new points of view to the team. • Ability to triage, execute root cause analysis, and be decisive under pressure. • Ability to creatively solve new, interesting problems in a dynamic environment. • Ability to work with a variety of individuals and groups, both in person and virtually, in a constructive and collaborative manner and build and maintain effective relationships. • Ability to act confidently and cautiously in break-the-glass production scenarios to resolve customer outages. • Solid understanding/experience of storage, containers, serverless architecture/framework, cloud IAM controls and policies. • Hands-on experience building and deploying applications using a variety of Amazon Web Services (primarily Cloud Formation, compute, EBS volumes and container). • Proficient in object-oriented Python and developing serverless functions with Boto. • Full-stack development experience across distributed applications and services. • Ability to apply design patterns and object-orientation to solutions. • Hands-on experience with containers and container orchestration. • Experience managing systems using infrastructure as code tools (CloudFormation, Ansible, Terraform, ARM, etc). • Strong understanding of Kubernetes concepts/ecosystem and deploying applications into EKS. • Understanding of versioning and release practices (SCM), code collaboration practices (Git) • Proficiency with CI/CD tools, especially Jenkins. • Experience executing the Software Development Lifecycle in an agile environment. • Experience in defining and implementing a comprehensive cloud reliability and observability strategy, ensuring that Fidelity’s cloud systems are always available when our customers need them. • Certifications preferred: AWS Solutions Architect, AWS Developer, or Kubernetes Application Developer. Technical Competencies: 1. Strong understanding of Kubernetes concepts/ecosystem and deploying applications into EKS. 1. Demonstrated experience with building Flask/FastAPI based REST APIs and applying design patterns to solutions. 1. Proficient in object-oriented Python 1. Experience managing systems using infrastructure as code tools (CloudFormation, OpenTofu, ARM, Ansible …). 1. Solid understanding/experience of networking, virtualization, storage, containers, serverless architecture/framework, cloud IAM controls and policies.