Cloud Platform Engineer jobs at Red Hat in United States, Greenwood

About the Job:

The IT Public Cloud team is seeking ato design, deploy, and manage cloud infrastructure that supports scalable, secure, and highly available applications. In this role, you will work within a small team of system and cloud engineers to understand the interdependencies between public and private cloud platforms, define platform requirements, and implement enterprise-grade cloud solutions.

What will you do?

• Deploy, manage, and optimize cloud environments (AWS, IBM Cloud, Azure, and GCP) to ensure reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency.

• Develop and maintain infrastructure automation using tools like Ansible Automation Platform and Terraform.

• Implement and maintain intelligent infrastructure and application monitoring designed to enable application engineering teams

• Implement cloud security best practices, IAM policies, network security, and ensure compliance with industry standards.

• Set up observability tools (e.g. Splunk, Splunk IM, etc) to monitor cloud services, troubleshoot performance issues, and enhance system efficiency.

• Work closely with development, security, and operations teams to provide cloud solutions that align with business and workload needs.

• Investigate and resolve cloud infrastructure issues, ensuring high availability and minimal downtime.Help and develop peers’ capabilities through knowledge sharing, mentoring, and collaboration

• Participate in a regular on-call schedule, supporting the operation needs of our tenants

• Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems

• Work within a small agile team to develop and improve SRE methodologies, support your peers, plan and self-improve

What will you bring?

• 3-5 years of experience in cloud management, DevOps, or system administration managing cloud-based production platforms or internally hosted services and platforms.

• 3+ years of experience in using cloud providers and technologies (AWS, IBM Cloud, GCP, Azure, etc.)

• Strong experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, similar tools, and configuration management tools like Ansible, Puppet, or Chef.

• Proficiency in Python, Bash, or PowerShell for automation, plus experience with object-oriented programming languages.

• Experience with enterprise monitoring tools (CloudWatch, Datadog, Prometheus, Splunk) and troubleshooting system issues to ensure high availability and performance.

• Basic knowledge of enterprise security requirements.

• Solid understanding of cloud networking (VPCs, subnets, firewalls) and security best practices (IAM, encryption, SIEM).

• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or similar tools.

• Experience with Git and repository management, with strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams.

• Strong troubleshooting skills and the ability to work effectively with development and operations teams.

• Independent problem-solving and self-direction

• Works well alone and as part of a global team

• Experience working with Agile development methodologies

Preferred Qualifications:

• Certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Azure Administrator, or Google Cloud Associate Engineer.

• Experience with hybrid cloud or multi-cloud environments.

• Familiarity with serverless computing (AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, GCP Cloud Functions).

• Experience working in Agile or DevOps-focused teams.