Associate Cloud Engineer
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Position Summary
The Associate Cloud Engineer is a role within Digital Infrastructure Engineering that supports the delivery and operation of secure, reliable, and scalable cloud infrastructure services. The role works alongside experienced engineers across cloud infrastructure, automation, and operations, with an emphasis on cloud security, including security posture, configuration compliance, risk identification, and remediation. This position provides an opportunity to build hands-on technical expertise while contributing to the continued maturity and security of the organization’s cloud environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Gains familiarity with the technology roadmap.
- Assists in monitoring and analyzing the performance of basic cloud infrastructure components.
- Participates across certain / identified platforms to ensure continuous availability and operational continuity of critical systems.
- Assists in all aspects of the cloud development life cycle for cloud solutions, including planning, requirements, development, testing, and quality assurance.
- Aids the development team and performs activities to resolve routine developer issues in a timely and accurate fashion.
- Supports the troubleshooting of incidents, identifying root cause, fixing and documenting problems, and implementing preventive measures. Provides operational support across the environment. Assists with monitoring, configuration and documentation of on-premises and cloud infrastructure focused solutions, following the guidance of management and senior staff.
- Supports the development of build and release processes.
- Supports system configurations and baselines to support secure application development software control best practices and standards.
Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, related field or equivalent experience.
- Zero (0) to two (2) years of relevant experience required
Skills
- Adaptability - Maintaining effectiveness when experiencing major changes in work responsibilities or environment (e.g., people, processes, structure, or culture); adjusting effectively to change by exploring the benefits, trying new approaches, and collaborating with others to make the change successful.
- AI Fundamentals - Understanding of core AI concepts and methods, ability to apply AI to job-relevant use cases and capacity to contribute to organizational AI reimagination.
- Change Management - Change Management refers to a systematic approach for defining and implementing procedures and/or technologies to deal with changes in the environment. It can mean adapting to change, controlling change and/or effecting change.
- Cloud Computing - Knowing how to manage cloud services, develop cloud applications and use cloud architecture to meet customer needs.
- Cloud Infrastructure Management - Setting up, configuring, monitoring, and optimizing the components of cloud infrastructure.
- Cloud Networking - Cloud networking refers to the practice of using cloud-based infrastructure and services to facilitate efficient communication, data transfer, and connectivity between devices, applications, and users over the internet. It involves leveraging cloud computing resources to optimize network performance, scalability, and accessibility, enabling organizations to securely access and manage their data and applications from anywhere.
- Cloud Storage - The ability to design, implement, manage and maintain cloud-based storage solutions leveraging cloud storage concepts and technologies with a working knowledge of cloud storage architecture and cloud storage security leveraging cloud-based storage tools and platforms.
- Containerization - Containerization is form of operating system virtualization, through which applications are run in isolated user spaces called containers, all using the same shared operating system (OS). Container orchestration automatically provisions, deploys, scales, and manages containerized applications without worrying about the underlying infrastructure.
- Database Management - Knowledge of governance frameworks for data analytics, including data usage policies, data access controls, and oversight of analytical processes.
- General Programming - Applies a computer language to communicate with computers using a set of instructions and to automate the execution of tasks.
- Operating System Fundamentals - System software that manages computer hardware, software resources, and provides common services for computer programs.
- Service Delivery Management - The manner in which an organization provides users access to IT services, which include applications, data storage and other business resources.
- Troubleshooting - The act or process of discovering and resolving problems, disputes, or mechanical issues through a systematic, usually iterative, approach.
- Virtualization - The ability to design, implement, and manage virtualized environments in a cloud environment as well as best practices for deploying, maintaining, managing, and optimizing virtual machines leveraging a working knowledge of virtualization concepts and technologies using cloud-based tools and platforms.
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Location:
San Antonio, TexasAdditional locations:
Job Requisition ID:
00023329Location Address:
19100 Ridgewood PkwyEducation:
Employee Group:
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