Job Description

Our nationwide Financial Services customer is seeking a full time Cloud Systems Engineer who can be responsible for providing support for all activities related to cloud and infrastructure across a variety of platforms and operating systems. This individual must possess a thorough understanding of cloud and infrastructure technology backed with hands-on operational experience within multiple cloud platforms. This position plans, implements, oversees, and supports cloud-based servers, services, networks, and integrations.

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Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Design, deploy, and support Microsoft Azure (80%) and AWS services (20%)
• Provide hands-on cloud, infrastructure, system administration, and troubleshooting expertise
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business needs and translate requirements into technology plans
• Ensure all cloud environments meet best-practice standards for security, scalability, and functionality
• Review operational requirements with project teams, management, and 3rd party service providers for deployment and ongoing support
• Create and maintain detailed technical documentation
• Build, configure, and support development, test, and production IT systems
• Design, implement, and maintain a backup and disaster recovery plan
• Provide technical direction on network topologies, server configurations, hardware + software deployments, firewall configurations, and other administrative tasks related to the support of computing environments
• Develop automated approaches for system administration tasks
• Perform daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, cloud environments, and critical technology workloads
• Execution of maintenance plans designed to keep systems up to date, while maintaining service level agreements
• Report on capacity, growth, and expenditures within all environments

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Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of relevant professional experience administering cloud and infrastructure services
• Provide robust solutions while adhering to an advanced security posture
• Demonstrate exceptional communication skills both verbal and written
• Exhibit strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills
• Proactively look for process improvement
• Discipline to succeed in a fast paced and complex environment
• Demonstrable experience in migrating on-premises workloads to the cloud
• Maintain functional expertise on the latest compute, storage, networking, and cloud technologies including surrounding industry best practices
• Strong technical, communication, and documentation skills
• Extensive understanding of IT security
• Excellent understanding of Windows Server 2012R2 and higher
• Knowledge of Azure Active Directory (AD) for authentication and federation
• Knowledge of firewalls, VPN, load balancing, and general networking architecture

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Education Requirements:

• BSc/BA in IT, Computer Science or relevant field preferred
• Desired Certifications: AWS or Azure certifications

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About CGS Business Solutions:

CGS specializes in IT business solutions, staffing and consulting services. With a strong focus in IT Applications, Network Infrastructure, Information Security, and Engineering. CGS is an INC 5000 company, vote one of the Best Places to Work and honored to be selected as one of the Best IT Recruitment Firms in California. After eight consecutive Fastest Growing Company titles, CGS continues to break into new markets across the USA. Companies are counting on CGS to attract and help retain these resource pools in order to gain a competitive advantage the rapidly changing business environments.