Rackspace Technology is hiring a
Cloud Practice Engineer III

Summary

Join our team as a Cloud Engineer and implement organization's cloud strategy from a technical perspective, including design, planning, integration, maintenance and support of cloud architecture. Supports development and execution of cloud implementation strategy within organization's existing IT infrastructure.

Requirements

• Fluent, Bi-lingual (Spanish and English)
• 5+ years of experience in the field of role required
• Generic DevOps Skill Baseline Coding
• Scripting/ Programing language/ Configuration Management/ Container (1 or more at 100 level)
• Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment
• VCS (Git Based VSC)
• Family with commit, branch, merge, review process
• Understand pre/post hook
• Design/implement branching strategy (e.g., git flow, GitHub flow)
• Design/implement group development collaboration process (access control, code review/approval, integration with other CI tools)
• Artifact Repository
• Familiar with one of the popular antifactory management tools
• CI/CD tools
• Implement CI services (VSC, antifactory repo, build, release)
• Design/implement CI/CD pipeline
• Operating System familiar with Linux or Windows OS
• Cloud Skill Baseline
• Automation
• IaC
• Use cloud IaC language to implement cloud resources or operation process
• Use orchestration tools to organize IaC code and inject configurations
• CI/CD
• Implement CI services (VSC, Artifacts repo, build service pipeline service)
• Implement CI/CD pipeline to build/deploy infrastructure or application
• Design/implement best practice CI/CD
• Landing Zone (Multi Account Framework)
• Identity Access Management (IAM)
• Security
• Networking
• Compute (VM, Container platform, Function)
• Virtual Machine workload
• Implement serverless solution for operational purpose
• Data storage, Database
• Configuration management
• Secret Management
• Monitoring and Logging
• Message Queues

Responsibilities

• Implement organization's cloud strategy from a technical perspective, including design, planning, integration, maintenance and support of cloud architecture
• Supports development and execution of cloud implementation strategy within organization's existing IT infrastructure
• May work with stakeholders across organization to evaluate cloud systems and identify appropriate solutions
• Responsible for adhering to company security policies and procedures and any other relevant policies and standards as directed
• Create well-designed, documented, and tested software features that meet customer requirements
• Identify and address product bugs, deficiencies, and performance bottlenecks
• Working with customers engineering teams on a wide variety of projects
• Writing infrastructure as code (CloudFormation, Terraform)
• Implement automation/DevOps best practices for CI/CD, IaC, Containerization, etc
• Linux/Windows administration, automated deployments, scripting (Bash/PowerShell/Python)
• Collaborate with fellow Rackers and customer key stakeholders to deliver projects, such as implementing Cloud-based technical architectures, executing migrations, and optimizing applications that enable business objectives
• Serve as a technical advisor and perform troubleshooting to resolve technical challenges for customers

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS Certifications
• GCP Certifications
• Azure Certifications
• CNCF Certifications