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Senior Cloud Engineer   Function:  Engineering   Reports to:  Director, Platform Engineering   Location: Remote - based in the  United States, working EST hours  Position Summary:   As  a  Sr. Cloud Engineer,  you will provide guidance on the  delivery  and operation of our cloud services to enhance availability, performance, reliability, and security of our solutions.  As part of  Platform  Team,  you will  contribute to  deployment automation and delivery while adhering to regulatory guidelines and compliance. You will be expected to  collaborate with and  support teams across the business, to evolve and help implement standards defined within the w ell-architected framework , and to build  toolchains and workflows that help reduce friction  in software delivery . It is  expected  you will  exhibit  creative and innovative problem-solving skills with a willingness to support the  development  team s  for complex issues as they arise. You will understand and help set an example of best practices and standards for developing and implementing solutions that  operate  at scale .        Key Responsibilities:     Build cloud foundational components encompassing network, security, identity, operations, and governance in the Azure cloud.     Monitor , scale, and  maintain  production resources, ensuring that  availability, performance, reliability, and security  are of the highest concern.     Participate in troubleshooting issues,  facilitate  recovery, and contribute to incident response retrospectives.     Contribute to  capability, functionality, and sustainability planning  of service components  for current and forecasted  needs  in a cost-efficient manner.     Maintain awareness of emerging technologies  to address challenges or enable new ways of working.     Provide technical  expertise   for  software solution delivery and r ecommend and implement improvements to processes and tools.    Design  and document cloud best practices, guidelines, and guardrails  for  cloud technologies.     Operationalize solutions from proof-of-concept through production, using automation for repeatability, maintainability, and  to enforce  standards.      Skills and Experience Needed :     Bachelor's degree in computer science or related technical field,  preferred .     7-10  years of experience working in a similar role.      Deep understanding of tools in the Azure platform.     Expertise   with deploying, managing, logging, and  monitoring of  applications/services using Microsoft Azure.     Experience with one or more: PowerShell/Bash/Python.     Experience with   building  IaC  and automation tools such as Terraform, Bicep, and ARM.     Experience with Microsoft/Azure SQL Server.   Experience working  within version control systems.    Operational experience with  production  SaaS solutions.    Strong knowledge of containers, container orchestration, and the Kubernetes ecosystem.     Ability to analyze performance metrics and provide feedback  of   possible areas  for improvement within developed services.       Competencies: