Lead Cloud Engineer

Position Overview
Are you someone with the passion and technical ability to help organizations move to the cloud? Do you want to be part of one of the most significant IT transformational technologies of our time? Do you take pride in guiding a prospect through the ins and outs of this complex process while advocating for the immense value your organization delivers?
Join us at RapidScale and become a technical driver in helping companies transition to AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. This position will primarily fulfill an engineering role in project-based engagements with clients, focusing on deploying cloud environments based on agreed-upon architectures, navigating clients through the application integration phase, and taking clients to the finish line with go-live.
Cloud Systems Engineers may also participate in architecture design and reviews, occasional pre-sales calls as subject matter experts, and internal DevOps initiatives.
The CSE is expected to be a thought leader at RapidScale and, therefore, highly knowledgeable about the technical aspects of our cloud services and the industry, which may include but are not limited to:

• Cloud Computing on Google Cloud
• Migrations to Google Cloud
• Professional Services and Consulting engagements
• Security/Compliance Services
• Managed Cloud Services and SRE
• Automation/DevOps

At RapidScale, we provide assessment, design, build, and management services to a diverse range of public cloud clients, building highly resilient, secure, automated, and cost-efficient environments. In this critical role, you'll help us achieve these goals for our clients and play a significant part in enabling RapidScale to meet our ambitious growth targets.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Work on interesting client projects spanning various activities like greenfield deployments, migrations to the cloud, app modernization, containers, and bespoke solutions that meet client requirements.
• Follow Rapidscale and vendors' best practices during implementation to achieve security, compliance, performance, and cost efficiency objectives.
• Represent Rapidscale's cloud enablement and management capabilities to prospective customers and existing customer base and influence customer expectations based on product and management capabilities and constraints.
• Navigate additional client requirements during implementation and provide technical solutions and troubleshooting.
• Work with our Managed Services team to provide a smooth transition of client environments for ongoing management, including written environment documentation, updated diagrams, and conducting internal handover sessions at the project's conclusion.
• Help expand the PS team's capabilities by offering technical training and support to your peers.
• Identify deficiencies and areas for improvements in technical processes and toolkits used in various implementation phases of a Google Cloud environment and recommend solutions.
• Participate in and influence the internal Google Cloud R&D team to make strategic decisions about validating and embracing new tools and technologies, automating/scripting processes, and commonly performed tasks.
• Collaborate with and influence the Platform team to achieve desired outcomes regarding automation and tooling for building and managing client environments on Google Cloud.

QUALIFICATIONS
Minimum

• Bachelor's degree in a related discipline and 4+ years' experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master's degree and 2 years' experience; a Ph.D. and up to 1 year of experience; or 8 years' experience in a related field.
• Requires 4+ years of experience performing infrastructure deployments, configuration, automation, and design on the Google Cloud platform.
• IaC-first approach to deploying resources on Google Cloud using Terraform, including building foundational landing zone infrastructure
• Strong experience migrating workloads from on-prem or other clouds to Google Cloud using native Google Cloud tools like Google Cloud Migration Center.
• Strong understanding and hands-on experience with Google Cloud and hybrid networking
• Strong understanding of IAM on Google Cloud: Cloud Identity integration with 3rd party IdP via SAML, Workforce and Workload Identity Federation, EntraID and AD configuration
• Ability to programmatically build infrastructure automation solutions (Python)
• Scripting and API querying experience (e.g. Google Cloud CLI, Bash).
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines supporting infrastructure and application deployments - GitHub, GitLab, Google Cloud Build, etc.
• Experience deploying and managing containerized workloads on Kubernetes, GKE, Cloud Run
• Sysadmin on Windows and/or Linux.
• Google Cloud Professional Architect certificate at a minimum.

About RapidScale: At RapidScale, exceptional technology is powered by exceptional people. As a growing leader in secure, reliable managed cloud solutions, we help SMBs and enterprises alike simplify IT and unleash innovation. With a broad portfolio spanning AWS, Azure and Google to a full set of Private Cloud and Cybersecurity solutions, RapidScale helps companies turn technology into their biggest competitive advantage. As part of the Cox family of companies, we offer best-in-class benefits, a commitment to work-life balance, and an award-winning workplace experience.
USD 117,300.00 - 195,500.00 per year
Compensation:
Compensation includes a base salary of $117,300.00 - $195,500.00. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate's knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.
Benefits:
The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company's needs, and its obligations; seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year; and up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members. Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, parental leave, and COVID-19 vaccination leave.
Application Deadline: 11/30/2024
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