IT Accel, Inc.

Cloud Storage Engineer

IT Accel, Inc. New York, NY

Cloud Storage Engineer | Contract-to-Hire

Hybrid: NYC or Burlington County, NJ

The Infrastructure Technology Solutions -Cloud Infrastructure team is responsible for the introduction and maintenance of technologies that support our public cloud environments. This encompasses IaaS, storage, network, and other fundamental services to support cloud stakeholders and lines of business. Key deliverables include the introduction of new services and capabilities in these areas, adding feature enhancements, and acting as a point of contact for escalations and consultations for our support and application teams. A strong background in storage technologies and networking is preferred as the team is accountable for establishing repeatable patterns of deployment, backup, and access models for cloud storage. Additionally, the role will involve working closely with our security and control partners to deliver services in a manner that aligns with the bank's security posture. Candidates will need to be familiar with working in a DevOps/Infrastructure-as-Code environment and be comfortable working with CI/CD pipeline technologies. The successful candidate must have demonstrated ability to design and deliver solutions within a public cloud environment and have experience working collaboratively with business partners, risk management organizations, and other operations & infrastructure teams.

Roles And Responsibilities

  • Assess, engineer, and deliver IaaS, storage, and network technologies and solutions to the public cloud platform via automation pipelines
  • Develop automation leveraging our pipeline and configuration management technologies to deploy and configure resources
  • Create high- and low-level design diagrams, build/deployment standards and technical specifications documentation
  • Develop storage connectivity patterns and establish standard access models and patterns of use
  • Engineer robust high-availability and disaster recovery patterns that are repeatable and can be consumed by line of business application teams
  • Troubleshoot network connectivity issues between cloud resources and on-premises infrastructure
  • Align with our cloud stakeholders and customers to develop new capabilities/feature enhancements for our existing services
  • Assist in the deployment and troubleshooting of new platforms that leverage our infrastructure services
  • Development/documentation of deployments plans for our services to be consumed by release and application teams
  • Analysis of potential security issues/vulnerabilities and development of remediation plans to ensure a secure and stable environment
  • Align with technology & regulatory risk partners to set requirements

Job Requirements

  • 3+ years experience of infrastructure automation with a solid development background (Python is preferred; Java or other also acceptable)
  • Solid understanding and experience with public cloud environments (Azure and Google are preferred, AWS also acceptable)
  • Experience with continuous integration/continuous delivery pipeline technologies and code release processes is required
  • Experience with CI/CD/infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Terraform, etc.) is required
  • Experience with public cloud storage technologies (e.g., Google Cloud Storage, Azure Storage accounts, Amazon S3, etc.) and storage backup technologies is required
  • Solid scripting skills (e.g., Bash, PowerShell) is required
  • Practical administration experience working with Windows Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux is preferred
  • Experience working with network segmentation designs in cloud environments
  • Strong communication skills to explain technologies to a wide audience
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple deadlines and priorities
  • Ability to take leadership on engineering design decisions, solve technical problems, and make improvements to our systems
  • CISSP, CISM, or other general network security industry certifications are preferred
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or engineering is required
  • Seniority level

    Mid-Senior level
  • Employment type

    Full-time
  • Job function

    Information Technology
  • Industries

    IT Services and IT Consulting, Software Development, and Financial Services

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