Founded in 2003 in Chicago,
Bounteous is a leading digital experience consultancy that co-innovates with the world's most ambitious brands to create transformative digital experiences. With services in Strategy, Experience Design, Technology, Analytics and Insight, and Marketing, Bounteous elevates brand experiences through technology partnerships and drives superior client outcomes. For more information, please visit
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We are actively seeking a highly skilled and motivated Cloud Engineer to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate should have a deep understanding of AWS cloud technologies, strong problem-solving skills, and a proactive mindset. As a Cloud Engineer, your responsibilities will include building and maintaining robust, scalable, and secure cloud infrastructure. You will collaborate with various teams to streamline processes, automate tasks, and enhance our cloud-based systems helping to build tools that support cloud development. If you are intellectually curious and love learning new skills and capabilities and have a passion for cloud technologies, automation, and continuous improvement, we encourage you to connect with us.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Cloud Expertise: Possess a strong working knowledge of cloud architectures, primarily on AWS, including EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, S3, CloudFront, VPC/Networking, Route53, CloudWatch, IAM, Terraform/IaC.
- Infrastructure as Code:Automate repeatable tasks using Terraform, enabling the automation of deployment and scaling of resources, reducing manual intervention.
- Configuration Management: Implement and maintain Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) configuration management to ensure consistency and stability across the cloud infrastructure.
- Containers & Orchestration:Be proficient in Docker, Kubernetes, and other container management tools to optimize containerized applications and services.
- Release Management: Assist development teams with release issues, build automated release frameworks, and collaborate with squads to resolve release-related challenges. Enable automation and provide support to development teams.
- Continuous Integration and Deployment (CI/CD):Utilize your expertise in CI/CD tools and integration techniques to build automated pipelines, ensuring efficient and reliable software delivery.
- Observability and Monitoring: Implement Application Performance Monitoring (APM) solutions such as New Relic and understand cloud components like CloudWatch, CloudWatch events, alarms, syslog, and other analytics tools for real-time monitoring and performance optimization.
- Security: Possess a strong understanding of AWS security practices and demonstrate expertise in securing cloud environments, ensuring compliance with industry standards. Ensure adherence to security best practices and compliance requirements by providing support to IT Security to deploy monitoring agents, deploying secured network infrastructure and firewalls.
- IT Operations: Monitor alerts, troubleshoot issues, manage databases (SQL and NoSQL), and oversee server management. Demonstrate strong troubleshooting skills and the ability to manage outages effectively.
- Automation: Demonstrate proficiency in scripting languages, cron jobs, AWS Lambda, CloudWatch, and automation event patterns with Simple Notification Service (SNS) to enhance operational efficiency.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- 8+ years of IT experience, with 5+ years enabling all the standard methodologies of cloud native development: Kubernetes, CI/CD, Data Lake, Containers, Serverless, Infrastructure as Code, etc.
- Hands on working knowledge of standard AWS services, such as EC2, S3, Lambda, VPCs, Load balancing, Kubernetes, and cluster management,
- Hands on working knowledge deploying AWS Cloud Formation scripts, writing Terraform and managing SSL Certificates, configuring WAF, deploying IAM user accounts, and managing cloud encryption keys.
- Ability to work effectively in cross team collaboration like Enterprise teams, Architecture and Product Teams, and capable of helping find and implement creative solutions to complex problems.
- You are a highly self-motivated individual, with an attention to detail.
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Research shows that women and other underrepresented groups apply only if they meet 100% of the criteria of a job posting. If you have passion and intelligence, and possess a technical knack (even if you’re missing some of the above), we encourage you to apply.
Bounteous is focused on promoting an inclusive environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate the different viewpoints and experiences our diverse group of team members bring to Bounteous. Bounteous does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.
In addition, you have the opportunity to participate in several Team Member Networks, sometimes referred to as employee resource groups (ERGs), that host space with individuals with shared identities, interests, and passions. Our Team Member Networks celebrate communities of color, life as a working parent or caregiver, the 2SLGBTQIA+ community, wellbeing, and more. Regardless of your respective identity, there are various avenues we involve team members in the Bounteous community.
Bounteous is willing to sponsor eligible candidates for employment visas.
