Cloud Automation Engineer
2nd Watch is an AWS Premier Partner providing managed cloud services to enterprises and a recognized leader among Managed Cloud Providers (MSPs). The company's subject matter experts, software-enabled services and cutting-edge solutions provide companies with tested, proven, and trusted solutions, allowing them to fully leverage the power of the public cloud seamlessly and within their own organizational constraints. 2nd Watch solutions are high performing, robust, increase operational excellence, decrease time to market, accelerate growth and lower risk. Its patent-pending, proprietary tools automate everyday workload management processes for big data analytics, digital marketing, line-of-business and cloud native workloads. 2nd Watch is a new breed of partner which tailors solutions for enterprises, including design, deploy and managed cloud solutions. 2nd Watch has more than 400 enterprise workloads under its management and more than 200,000 instances in its managed public cloud. The venture-backed company is headquartered in Seattle, Washington. To learn more about 2nd Watch, visit www.2ndwatch.com or call 888-317-7920.
Why 2nd Watch?
2nd Watch is in growth mode, and we are looking to build out our existing teams this year. From Managed Cloud Services to Cloud Enablement, Operations, Application Development, DevOps, Automation, Product Development, and everything in between…we are looking for superstars. Our teams are setting industry-level standards around AWS product management and delivery, and we are looking for like-minded, focused candidates to join us. We're building our team with talented and passionate Cloud Consultants who will have the opportunity to help shape and deliver on a broad use of Amazon's utility computing web resources.
Where you fit:
2nd Watch has a unique company culture and working environment that live and breathe success and promote pushing the envelope every day in your respective role at the company. This is what drives our teams. Getting our attention takes creativity, ingenuity, a desire to improve each day, and a track record of caring about who you are affecting both positively and negatively while you are getting the right stuff done.
We are looking for a the most technically forward-thinking, Cloud-Passionate employees in the world and work daily to align our core values with those that we hire - Fearlessness, Tenacity, Humility, Customer Focus, Empowering One Another, Working Together, Winning as a Team, Honesty, Transparency, Having FUN – these are all key elements to who we hire.
Position: Cloud Automation Engineer (Raleigh / Remote)
Description
The Managed Cloud Automation team is looking for a thoughtful Engineer to help us change the way enterprises manage infrastructure at scale. As a member of this team, you will be responsible for building solutions that enable 2W Operations Engineers to better monitor, maintain, and update critical systems that our customers depend on. This means designing, building, and deploying tools and services (microservices and APIs!) that make those tasks easier and faster. Our customers have a huge variety of infrastructure needs that grow daily, so we need creative, and open-minded engineers who can work across teams to deliver customer-oriented solutions. This role is best suited for highly self-directed individuals with solid Software Engineering fundamentals and experience solving IT operational challenges, especially at enterprise scale.
We prefer candidates in Raleigh, however 2nd Watch does have a strong culture of remote work, and WFH flexibility, so a remote position may be possible for the right candidate.
- Computer Science B.S. degree, or equivalent experience
- Operations Role Experience (Sys Admin, Sys Engineer, IT Support)
- AWS experience (Lambda, API Gateway, VPC Networking, EC2, ELB)
- Python skills (Also nice: Go, JavaScript, Ruby)
- RESTful API build and design experience (Swagger)
- Infrastructure-as-code experience (CloudFormation, Terraform, Boto)
- Configuration Management experience (Ansible, Chef, Puppet)
- Familiarity with Container Technologies (Docker, LXC/LXD, rocket)
- Prides self on creating high quality, documented, tested solutions.
Junior candidates and those who do not yet have experience in all areas are encouraged to apply.
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What's in it for You
Beyond an amazing, collaborative work environment, great people and inspiring, innovative work, we have some great benefits and perks:
- Competitive salaries and all employees are bonus eligible
- 401(k) with company stock plans to all employees
- 100% paid medical, dental and vision coverage for all employees and 90% paid for family, along with other wellness and disability plans
- No limit / regulation on Paid Time Off – We let you manage yourself.
- Catered lunches, fully stocked kitchens, focus on Philanthropy and giving back to the communities we support
Desired Skills
Contact Info
- Company Website: http://2ndwatch.com/
