cloud engineer

job summary: W2 only- no C2C/ no C2H, no sponsorship/ no visa candidates This is a contract to hire position, LOCAL CANDIDATES ONLY!! Expected to come on-site 3 days per week.   location: Saint Paul, Minnesota job type: Contract salary: $60 - 70 per hour work hours: 8am to 5pm education: Bachelors   responsibilities: Position Summary: Seeking an AWS Senior Cloud Engineer to join the Enterprise Cloud and Development Platform team with a focus on FinOps engineering as well as supporting other capabilities for our internal engineering and app development-oriented customers. This role is part of the Enterprise Cloud and Development Platforms organization within the Enterprise Technology division. We provide offerings including: FinOps, application hosting, deployment, and observability, CI/CD pipelines, API management, local desktop development, and Securian's AWS cloud. Our mission includes: Leveraging a customer-centric mindset towards providing high-quality offerings for engineers and developers throughout the enterprise Creating dynamic and scalable solutions through automation, infrastructure as code, and self-service capabilitiesEnsuring our solutions are designed, engineered, and operate safely, securely, and effectivelyProviding education, consulting, and collaborative engagement with other teams throughout Enterprise TechnologyPromoting practices and behaviors around engineering excellence, FinOps, DevOps, automation/infrastructure as code, optimization, and modernization Building and establishing TCO (Total Cost of ownership to increase visibility into the interconnectedness between applications and infrastructure via engineered solution(s). Qualifications: Experience with AWS cloud services (preferably 4 years +), practical cloud deployment experience in AWS Cloud services including EKS, EC2, and/or experimentation with some AI/ML services Experience leveraging infrastructure as code to create and manage solutions in AWS, including Python, CloudFormation, Terraform, etc. Ability to work both independently and collaboratively as part of a team, adapt to changes in priorities according to business needs, and prioritize tasks to meet deadlines. Familiarity with Cloud service pricing models, cost and usage estimates and forecast modeling using AWS FinOps Engineering or Software Engineering experience with significant cost optimization projects Willingness to learn other platforms and tooling capabilities to provide information to application owners on financial and architectural cloud optimization opportunities, as well as monitoring and observability best practicesExcellent communication and collaboration skills with attention to detail and accuracy and comfort with a wide variety of personas (technology associates, business representatives, finance partners, engineers, data scientists, leadership etc.) The Cloud Engineer will be part of the team responsible for client's FinOps engineering, application hosting, observability, and API management technologies and services. You will help design, engineer, improve, and maintain these capabilities in alignment with our enterprise goals and plans, operating safely, securely, and effectively through automation, self-service, and optimization. Cloud Engineers also provide consulting and education on our capabilities for engineers, developers, architects, and leaders throughout Enterprise Technology as well as our Governance, Risk, and Compliance teams. One of our most recently developed capabilities FinOps, was established as part of Securian's Cloud Program to enhance the business value derived from client's cloud infrastructure. While our Cloud migration is largely complete, the next phase focuses on empowering teams to make well-informed decisions regarding cloud expenditure. This involves establishing KPIs and cloud usage goals aligned with optimization and resilience in collaboration with business functions and goals. The FinOps capability plays a crucial role in guiding and ensuring financial accountability for client's cloud environments. This capability and this position will provide scalable solutions that enable applications to optimize cloud performance. This ensures decision-making is informed by the expertise of the Enterprise Cloud and Development Platform team, with implementation carried out by our engineers and software development teams.   qualifications: Must Haves. Finops - TCO (Total Cost Optimization) experienceDevops engineering background IaC - cloudformation, terraform. (should have one of those 2). Coding language experience would be beneficial. cloud experience (AWS). Coming into AWS environment.observability experienceapi support experience *Open to other domain experience outside of Financial Services.   skills: looking for someone who can first start to help develop further in journey on finops engineering. done great job over past 4-5year years migrating things to the cloud and help people understand cloud usage from finance perspective. still providing that level of support.use cloud ability and account owner can jump in to set up alerts. Account owners are not engineers. not making decision on types of cloud services they're using, instance type they're using for compute, etc. focus shifting towards engineers as primary customer. Soft skills: Ability to lead conversation with internal dev teams, schedule meetings and talk to them. lack ability to work in corporate environment - communicate effectively with customers, understand business requirements, little understanding of what project manager stuff looks like. Would like to see them having been apart of a projectgive some level of presentation, even if its to the team. Key focus: trying to build in strict guard rails for specific uses in AWS or some sort of pipeline notification when deploying. trying to build on TCO. didn't have that in data center days. Starting to try to build out what is the cost for the business for the applications. starting give people an understanding based on the business value.teams aslo provides api platform support, observability support. Current architecture is on EC2 app posting. Equal Opportunity Employer: Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status.At Randstad Digital, we welcome people of all abilities and want to ensure that our hiring and interview process meets the needs of all applicants. If you require a reasonable accommodation to make your application or interview experience a great one, please contact HRsupport@randstadusa.com. Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Randstad Digital offers a comprehensive benefits package, including health, an incentive and recognition program, and 401K contribution (all benefits are based on eligibility). This posting is open for thirty (30) days.

job summary: Location: Westlake, Texas or Covington, Kentucky Required Skills 8 to 10 years of Full-Stack software engineering and DevOps experience.5+ years of hands-on Azure experience in a production environment (network, security, deployment, automation, serverless technologies).   location: Roanoke, Texas job type: Contract salary: $82 - 83 per hour work hours: 8am to 5pm education: Bachelors   responsibilities: Strong hands-on experience with Java Spring Boot, NodeJs, Python and Jenkins and Cloud service deployments.Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, integration, testing, deployment workflows, automation, process development, and process changes.  qualifications: Strong hands-on experience with CI/CD tools.Strong hands-on experience with AKS, PowerShell, kubelets, Jenkins Core, Git flow, and Artifactory.Deeper understanding on Branch & Trunk based code development.Cloud Azure Kubernetes Services with container-based deployment skills.  skills: Configuration Management and Infrastructure as Code.Experience collaborating across multiple functional/technical teams to deliver a project.Understanding on cloud services Function App, Logic App, VMSS, AppGateway, Storage, EC2,S3,database etcUnderstanding logging and APM tools like Splunk, Datadog Equal Opportunity Employer: Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status.At Randstad Digital, we welcome people of all abilities and want to ensure that our hiring and interview process meets the needs of all applicants. If you require a reasonable accommodation to make your application or interview experience a great one, please contact HRsupport@randstadusa.com. Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Randstad Digital offers a comprehensive benefits package, including health, an incentive and recognition program, and 401K contribution (all benefits are based on eligibility). This posting is open for thirty (30) days.

job summary: Location: Westlake, TX and Merrimack, NH Required Skills 5+ years of hands-on experience deploying and/or supporting highly distributed multi-tiered systems at scale.   location: Roanoke, Texas job type: Contract salary: $75 - 76 per hour work hours: 8am to 5pm education: Bachelors   responsibilities: Hands-on experience in 2 or more languages (Python, Java, Go etc.).Hands-on experience designing and building scalable and resilient applications in the cloud.Good knowledge on networking concepts such as DNS, Load Balancers, routers etc.Experience in troubleshooting Linux based systems  qualifications: Experience on containerization technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes etc.Experience in deploying applications in AWS platforms such as EC2 & EKS or equivalent platforms from any other cloud provider such as GCP, Azure etcExperience in building serverless applications using AWS Lambda, Step functions etc.  skills: Experience delivering software using engineering best practices and principles.Extensive knowledge of infrastructure as code (Terraform, CFT, CDK, etc.).Hands-on experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery/deployment using ALM tools such as Jenkins.Passion for new technologies and cloud trends Equal Opportunity Employer: Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status.At Randstad Digital, we welcome people of all abilities and want to ensure that our hiring and interview process meets the needs of all applicants. If you require a reasonable accommodation to make your application or interview experience a great one, please contact HRsupport@randstadusa.com. Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Randstad Digital offers a comprehensive benefits package, including health, an incentive and recognition program, and 401K contribution (all benefits are based on eligibility). This posting is open for thirty (30) days.