Senior Cloud Engineer

Date: Nov 12, 2024

Location:

Overland Park, KS, US

Company: Black & Veatch Family of Companies

Together, we own our company, our future, and our shared success.

As an employee-owned company, our people are Black & Veatch. We put them at the center of everything we do and empower them to grow, explore new possibilities and use their diverse talents and perspectives to solve humanity's biggest challenges in an ever-evolving world. With over 100 years of innovation in sustainable infrastructure and our expertise in engineering, procurement, consulting and construction, together we are building a world of difference.

Company : Black & Veatch Corporation

Req Id : 106191

Opportunity Type : Staff

Relocation eligible : No

Full time/Part time : Full-Time

Project Only Hire : No

Visa Sponsorship Available: No

Why Black and Veatch

Recognized by Glassdoor as a 2023 Top 100 place to work , Black & Veatch allows you to lend your talent and perspective to humanity’s biggest challenges in a flexible environment where you are empowered to grow and explore new possibilities. We offer competitive compensation; 401K match and benefits that start day 1. Our hybrid environment allows you to balance your work and personal life.

At Black & Veatch, you own your career with purpose and meaning. You are empowered to grow and explore new possibilities at every step of your career journey. Bring your big ideas knowing you are safe to be who you are and speak up with concerns or questions and put your diverse talents and perspectives to use.

The Opportunity

As the Senior Cloud Engineer , you will have the opportunity to

• Beresponsible for the Cloud lifecycle management planning, design, oversight, automation, and optimization

• Collaborate extensively with business and IT professionals, and with the Infrastructure, Applications, and Information Security teams, and with third-party vendors and contractors

• Focus heavily on the strategic and architectural design of cloud solutions with a focus and demonstrated experience in AWS and Azure, and with strength in writing Terraform for cloud automation

• Be a recognized communicator, subject matter expert, thought leader, champion for technology adoption and compliance, and a passionate empathizer for client needs

The Team

Black & Veatch’s Business Enablement consists of critical groups that help enable the organizations people, projects, and businesses to be as successful as possible. Functions in this group include Digital & Information Technology, Global Finance, Global Human Resources, Legal, Risk Management, and Government Affairs and Real Estate and Building Services.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintains contact and builds relationships with the operating businesses, IT management, IT vendors and technical architects to ensure availability, security, and satisfaction.

• Assists in identifying new and improved approaches, technologies, tools, templates, and business use cases.

• Assesses cloud environments for areas like capacity, connectivity, performance, and resiliency.

• Designs, codes, tests and implements Terraform cloud automations/deployments

• Reviews/Approves/Represents Change Tickets in the Cloud Infrastructure Area

• Leads Break-Fix situations with multiple team members including managed service provider partners

• Maintains broad-based technical and solutions knowledge in key infrastructure optimization and solution areas including:

• Multi-Cloud Expertise with an AWS and Azure focus and working understanding of GCP and OCI

• Cloud Multi-tenant Administration

• Azure Virtual Desktop

• Cloud Data Protection/Backup technologies and methodologies including recovery processes

Management Responsibilities

Acts in capacity of a "lead person." Does not have management responsibility for the people to whom they provide work direction.

Preferred Qualifications

Technical Skills

• Cloud Engineer – AWS and Azure required; GCP & OCI preferred.

• Monitoring Tools such as Azure Operations Management Suite (OMS)

• Experience with network architectures

• Experience with Vulnerability Response/Remediation

• Scripting/Coding and automation using such tools as Terraform, PowerShell, Python, Ansible, etc.

Business Skills

• Experience in leading the delivery of assessments, development of business cases, and solution architecture.

• Experience with multi-phased, complex migration programs that address technology, people / organization, and process change.

• Strong written skills – able to create concise and structured recommendations for total solutions as well as simplifying systems architectures.

• Dynamic and engaging presentation style that commands respect, inspires confidence, earns trust, and makes the complex easy to understand.

• Strong business engagement and customer relationship management.

• Demonstrated proficiency with technical architecture, practical adaptation and implementation, functional deployment, and business ROI focused areas of enterprise infrastructure solutions.

• Financial fluency which includes working with ROI, cost analysis, and financial statements.

• Strong command of English

• BS and/or MS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience

• 5+ years’ experience (unless otherwise noted) in the following areas:

• Cloud Engineer – AWS & Azure required; GCP & OCI exposure.

• Demonstrated experience with SSO and Identity Federation services (Entra, B2B/B2C)

• ITIL environment of formal Change processes, Systems Development Lifecycle processes and of production of requirements documentation and evidence (ServiceNow experience a plus)

• 2+ years of Scripting with Terraform

Minimum Qualifications

All applicants must be able to complete pre-employment onboarding requirements (if selected) which may include any/all of the following: criminal/civil background check, drug screen, and motor vehicle records search, in compliance with any applicable laws and regulations.

Certifications

• AWS Certified SysOps Administrator 

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect

• Microsoft Azure Administration AZ-104– Desired

Work Environment/Physical Demands

Hybrid work schedule: 3 days in office and 2 days remote

Salary Plan

ITS: Information Technology Service

Job Grade

007

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Black & Veatch is committed to being an employer of choice by creating a valuable work experience that keeps our people engaged, productive, safe and healthy.

Our comprehensive benefits portfolio is a key component of this commitment and offers an array of health care benefits including but not limited to medical, dental and vision insurances along with disability and a robust wellness program.

To support a healthy work-life balance, we offer flexible work schedules, paid vacation and holiday time, sick time, and dependent sick time.

A variety of additional benefits are available to our professionals, including a company-matched 401k plan, adoption reimbursement, tuition reimbursement, vendor discounts, an employment referral program, AD&D insurance, pre-taxed accounts, voluntary legal plan and the B&V Credit Union. Professionals may also be eligible for a performance-based bonus program.

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