Senior Cloud Engineer
Company: Shutterfly
Location: San Jose
Posted on: March 20, 2023
Job Description:
At Shutterfly, we make life's experiences unforgettable. We
believe there is extraordinary power in the self-expression. That's
why our family of brands helps customers create products and
capture moments that reflect who they uniquely are.
What You'll Do Here:
As a member of this centralized infrastructure team, the Sr. Cloud
Engineer shares in the ownership and responsibilities for enabling
engineering activities and efficiencies related within the AWS
cloud. This role blends innovation in a sophisticated cloud
ecosystem with sustained compliance, while supporting a high
traffic, highly visible platform with large volumes of data,
third-party integrations, and challenging scalability and
performance considerations. - -
- This candidate possesses a strong aptitude for learning new
technologies, embracing and driving complex, highly visible, and
challenging projects to completion. This role requires seasoned
engineering and communication capabilities. - This individual must
exhibit strong collaboration across multiple cross-functional teams
and a rich set of problem-solving skills. This candidate should be
self-motivated, have a passion for quality, and the ability to
clearly communicate out an up to the executive level. -
Key Responsibilities:
- Responsible for designing, building, and supporting advanced
cloud automation workflows and tools, written mostly in Terraform
and Packer, used to facilitate the automated setup, configuration
and deployment of workloads in the cloud. -
- Responsible for the automated testing of infrastructure as
code, using tools such as InSpec and -AWSpec/Test Kitchen -
- Define and track metrics to monitor and improve cost efficiency
across a complex, multi-account AWS implementation -
- Design and build automated workflows/tools to enforce policies,
best practices and cost controls -
- Consult with engineering teams to optimize the provisioning of
their infrastructure -
- Contribute principles and policies to form best practices,
standards and guidelines for how to be successful in Shutterfly's
cloud environment -
- Adhere to process and security standards when building
infrastructure in AWS -
- Consult with product and engineering teams to assist their
education, onboarding and ongoing performance -
- Enforcer of team budgets within the cloud -
- Ability to understand and influence:
- If a given infrastructure is correctly provisioned or
over/under-provisioned. -
- If something can be optimized further or is already optimized.
-
- Work with Service owners to understand the criticality of the
service, and what its ideal needs are for cloud operation -
The Skills You'll Bring:
- Minimum 4 -years experience -in any combination of software
engineering roles of some type: - DevOps, applications, services,
tools/automation, release, etc. -
- Minimum 3 -years experience -with DevOps practices and
automation tooling -
- Experience designing, developing and operating software
applications/services in AWS ecosystem -
- Experience writing code with one or more interpreted languages
such as: Python, PHP, Perl, Ruby, Linux Shell -
- Experience with Terraform or Cloud Formation scripting -
- Experience with one or more configuration management tools such
as Ansible, Chef or Puppet -
- Experience with standard software development best practices
and tools such as code repositories (Git preferred) -
- Experience executing with agile software development best
practices -
- Hands on experience with creating web applications or web
services preferred -
- Must be very comfortable in a Linux Bash shell environment
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- Familiarity with pervasive AWS architecture guidelines -
- Thorough understanding of pricing/cost models across AWS
services, especially compute, storage, and database offerings
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- Must be able to multitask and work well with changing
priorities in a fast paced, 24x7 environment -
- Experience with public cloud migrations/transformations -
- Must be highly collaborative and be able to work in a team
environment, with technical and business people -
- Excellent communication, problem solving and customer service
skills with the ability to translate technical detail into
non-technical information -
- A strong ability to learn and adapt new technologies -
- Strong ability to coordinate activities in a coordinated and
highly visible manner -
- Education: -Bachelor's degree in computer science, science,
engineering or workforce equivalent Technical certifications
preferred - Supporting a diverse and inclusive workforce is
important to Shutterfly not only because it directly reflects our
value of Embracing our Differences, but also because it's the right
thing to do for our business and for our people. Learn more about
our commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Shutterfly
DE&I.
California : [$110,100-155,800]
Connecticut, New York, and Rhode Island: [$110,100-142,300]
Colorado and Washington: [$110,100-131,900]
Nevada: [$102,800-142,300]
This position may be eligible for a bonus incentive, health
benefits, a 401K program, and other employee
perks. More details about our company benefits can be found at
-https://shutterflyinc.com/benefits/.
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Keywords: Shutterfly, San Jose , Senior Cloud Engineer, Engineering , San Jose, California
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