Allied Consultants, Inc is a proudly Austin based firm with over 33 years of experience delivering top-tier technical and business professionals within Texas State Agencies. We are currently seeking an experience Cloud Engineer to play a key role within a high-impact technical services team. • • Location of job: Hybrid- 3 days remote with 2 days (Tuesdays and Fridays) required to be onsite. Program will only accept LOCAL ONLY candidates for this position. • • Responsibilities • Develops software solutions by studying information needs, conferring with users, and studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes. Investigates problem areas. Prepares and installs solutions by determining and designing system specifications, standards, and programming. • Develops software solutions by studying information needs, conferring with users, and studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes. • As a member of the team, participate in requirements analysis, high-level and detailed design, development, testing and deployment of new application components, as required. • Create technical and design documentation, as required. • Employ contemporary testing methods to ensure applications function properly and without error. • Provide technical support for testing and implementation efforts. • Perform system analysis, troubleshooting, diagnosis and problem resolution. Analyze software for defects and performance tuning opportunities. • Other duties as assigned. Candidate Skills and Qualifications Minimum Requirements: Experience with Agile Scrum and DevOps methodologies GitHub Administration: • Manage repositories, branching strategies, and access control. • Automate workflows using GitHub Actions or similar CI/CD tools. • Maintain code quality and integration processes. • Define and implement governance rules. Jira Administration: • Configure Jira projects, workflows, custom fields, and user permissions. • Develop dashboards and reports to support Agile project tracking. • Integrate JIRA with development and communication tools. • Design and maintain JIRA automation rules. AWS Infrastructure Management: • Provision and manage EC2 instances, VPCs, IAM roles, S3 buckets, and related services. • Automate infrastructure using tools like CloudFormation or Terraform. • Monitor and optimize cloud performance and costs. One or more programming languages or technologies such as Python, JavaScript, Angular and Maven Experience working in Developer IDEs, such as Eclipse, IBM Rational Application Developer, etc. Asset and service account management BMC Helix ticketing system Prefer some experience with Databases – PostgreSQL and Oracle Prefer some working experience with Virtual Machine Provisioning and De-Provisioning: • Create, configure, and manage VMs across cloud or on-prem Hyper-V environments. • Ensure proper networking, storage, and security configurations. Prefer past Development and Database experience Qualifications Minimum Requirements: 8 years of: • Hands-on experience in administering, configuring, and supporting Atlassian Jira • Proven ability to administer GitHub Enterprise Cloud • Proven ability to analyze and resolve complex issues • Supporting and training end users on all levels. • Hands-on experience with Hyper-V server administration, hardware, backup, recovery and disaster/recovery • Hands-on experience with Continuous Integration Delivery models • Hands-on experience with Automation/Build tools: Jenkins, Docker, Ansible and OpenShift. App & Web Servers: WebSphere, JBoss and Tomcat. Scripting: Maven, Shell, Ruby, Perl and Python. Databases: Oracle, MySQL and Postgres . • Hands-on experience integrating new webhooks into GitHub projects to automate various compliance checks Preferred: 5 years of: • Hands-on experience with large development projects using Agile methodology Overview At Allied Consultants, we value our consultants and are committed to providing an exceptional experience including: • Highly competitive pay rates • Local support staff for responsive, personal service • Comprehensive benefits package, including: • Medical insurance (with employer cost sharing) • Life insurance • A 401(K) plan with company match • Flexible spending through a cafeteria plan Candidates selected for interviews will be subject to a criminal background check and may be required to pass a drug screening, in compliance with federal and state regulations. All offers of employment are contingent upon successful completion of these checks. Allied Consultants is a proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.