The Platform Engineering team is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to help architect, manage, and evangelize Sirius XM’s AWS-based developer platform across the Technology org. The perfect candidate has extensive experience in architecting, migrating, and modernizing infrastructure to use public cloud services securely and cost-effectively. As a senior member of Platform Engineering, this person will be a trusted advisor to application and infrastructure teams, helping to develop architectural guidance and patterns for cloud-native applications. They will contribute to the strategic planning and implementation of enterprise initiatives and must be capable of communicating enterprise cloud strategy and influencing stakeholders. The ideal candidate will have a strong technical background to drive implementation efforts and be an effective communicator to interact effectively at the executive to drive implementation efforts.
What you’ll do:
Promote and facilitate adoption of the enterprise cloud strategy at scale
Support the implementation of enterprise cloud initiatives, including strategic
alignment, design, implementation, automation, production readiness, and documentation
Design and develop automation solutions for cloud platform management
Partner with Platform Engineering product managers to identify user needs and clarify requirements
Support other teams, work collaboratively with other team members, communicate effectively, and foster team success
Jump into troubleshooting efforts as needed
What you’ll need:
7+ years of relevant cloud/devops/software engineering experience
2+ years of cloud solution architecture experience or equivalent
AWS Solution Architect Professional Certification or equivalent
Experience defining and managing cloud infrastructure as code
Demonstrated ability to think strategically and analytically about business, product, and technical challenges, build and convey compelling value propositions and work cross-organizationally to build consensus
In-depth understanding of deploying applications fully on cloud-native (AWS) services
Knowledge of foundational infrastructure components - e.g., IP networking, VPNs, DNS, firewalling, IAM/authentication, and load balancing
Experience developing and deploying large, distributed cloud-hosted systems and the required operational models for stable application availability
Experience supporting application, operations, and security teams including the ability to provide ongoing architecture and implementation support
Proven ability to cleanly document, promote, and present your work to other teams and to customers
Demonstrated effectiveness working across multiple business units to achieve results
Commitment to “internal client” and customer service principles.
Hands-on experience with:
Executing cloud initiatives in a large distributed organization
Developing and communicating cloud-native architecture patterns
Designing and implementing cloud-native cost-effective solutions on AWS
Designing cost-effective multi-region disaster recovery capabilities
Software Development Lifecycle in an agile environment
Extra credit:
Node.js/Type Script familiarity
Experience with Cloud Formation and AWS CDK
IT Service Management and common ITIL frameworks that support comprehensive infrastructure and application operations support models
Containerization platforms and serverless computing (Docker, AWS ECS, AWS Lambda)
Design, build, and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines and associated tooling (e.g. Git Hub Actions)
Data service architectures that support management and integration across multiple applications
Common data lake and data warehouse patterns and tooling
Common data analytics pipeline patterns and tooling R-2024-IR-142