Senior Cloud Engineer

Since 2012, we've grown to become one of the leading single-family rental companies and homebuilders in the country, recently recognized as a top employer by Fortune and Great Place To Work®.  At AMH, our goal is to simplify the experience of leasing a home through professional management and maintenance support, so our residents can focus on what really matters to them, wherever they are in life. 

The Senior Cloud Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, and managing cloud infrastructure and services to ensure high availability, reliability, and scalability as well as automating deployment of infrastructure through infrastructure as code. This role involves working closely with other IT professionals to develop and maintain cloud-based solutions that meet the company’s objectives.

Responsibilities:

• Create and maintain cloud-based infrastructure, applications, and services. This includes selecting appropriate cloud services, creating architecture diagrams, and developing automation scripts. Deploy new applications to the cloud and migrate existing applications to modern cloud services.

• Monitor the performance of cloud-based systems and optimize resources to ensure cost-effectiveness and high availability.Troubleshoot and resolve any issues that arise and be part of responding to any outages.

• Support in the design and architecture of new solutions such as new applications, networking and systems or re-design to enhance current applications, networking and systems.

• Develop and enforce cloud security policies and procedures to protect data and applications from unauthorized access and potential security threats.

• Document the architecture of the environment, train other team members and create standard operating procedures for team members as well as other IT Teams.

• Follows all organizational systems, programs, training, policies, and procedures as required and complies with relevant legal mandates.Seeks guidance as necessary.

• Actively supports and participates in the safety program, both for self-protection and the protection of other employees, by reading and abiding by all requirements in the Injury and Illness Prevention Program (I2P2).

• Carries out all responsibilities in an honest, ethical, and professional manner.

• Handles various other duties as delegated by direct supervisor/management.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, relative field or an equivalent combination of education and experience required

• Minimum four (4) years of experience working in Cloud Engineering, Software/Network Engineering, Computer and Information Science, and/or related field.

• Advanced knowledge and experience documenting infrastructure and setting standards and procedures

• Advanced knowledge and experience with Cloud Platforms (Azure, AWS, OCI), Cloud Strategy, Design, Architecture, and Migration

• Advanced knowledge and experience with DevOps and CI/CD pipelines

• Advanced knowledge and experience with troubleshooting Line-of-Business applications, Incident, Problem and Change Management

• Excellent verbal, written and executive presentation skills

• Ability to collaborate and facilitate progressive change

• Strong quality and results orientation

Compensation

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Perks and Benefits

Employees have the opportunity to participate in medical, dental and vision insurance; flexible spending accounts and/or health savings accounts; dependent savings accounts; 401(k) with company matching contributions; employee stock purchase plan; and a tuition reimbursement program. The Company provides 9 paid holidays per year, and, upon hire, new employees will accrue paid time off (PTO) at a rate of 0.0577 hours of PTO per hour worked, up to a maximum of 120 hours per year.

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