Job Description

The Advisory Cloud Engineer will provide leadership and direction for these technology areas, mentoring team members to drive organizational maturity. The Advisory Cloud Engineer will also consult with development teams to ensure platform fit aligned to the business application requirements. Additionally, understanding of APIs, micro-services development, containers and supporting platform technologies also required. This position reports to the General Manager of Cloud and Solutions Engineering within the Infrastructure & Reliability organization.
YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES IN THIS ROLE

Provide technical leadership and design expertise for AWS Foundations integration
Define standards and patterns for when and how to efficiently leverage AWS services
Lead automation of AWS integration processes and tasks 
Develop frameworks to enable dev teams to consume authorized AWS services
Lead automation, using Ansible or CloudFormation, to support acceleration of application deployments into AWS
Ensure Security-by-Design is a foundational component of every workload deployed into AWS
Contribute to creation, management and upkeep of Intranet FAQs, User guides and Knowledgebase, standards and build documents for AWS Foundations integration
Provide leadership in identifying new concepts, ideas, techniques, and technology assistance (best practices, guidelines and design patterns for supported technologies)
Perform cost benefit analysis to determine best system architectures 
Aid development of Public Cloud Usage Statistics and Reporting dashboards for account owners
Mentor engineering and development staff on public cloud integration design and hygiene, driving quality, consistency, resiliency, security and supportability into designs
Design and maintain standard templates, reference architectures, and design patterns that aid other Cloud Engineers in development of standards-based designs

WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED (MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS)

4+ years of experience in design and implementation of large enterprise public cloud environments
AWS Certified Professional preferred
3+ years of hands-on experience integrating mission critical applications into AWS
Deep understanding of AWS such as IAM, VPCs, Landing Zones, Control Tower, AVM (Account Vending Machine), EC2, EBS, KMS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Systems Manager, S3, RDS, Route53, Lambda, AWS Config, etc.)
Experience building and securing infrastructure as code using CloudFormation, Ansible, and/or similar tools 
Infrastructure Automation (IaC) – applying IAM Roles, Policies & SCP to AWS Services, not just IaaS automation
Solid working knowledge of TGW, VPCs & PrivateLink 
Ability to integrate any combination of these services into IaC around other AWS Services (S3, EC2, Lambda, API Gateway, etc.)
Fluency with one or more scripting/coding languages such as Java, JavaScript, REST, JSON, Python, bash
Experience implementing and leveraging the logging and monitoring solutions
Experience in cloud native architectures and micro-services design
Understanding of the shared responsibility model in AWS
Proven record of accomplishments in major enterprise level projects
Experience in design of complex distributed systems environments
Demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges
Ability to clearly communicate and present to various levels of the organization
Strong organizational and analytical skills with attention to detail
Independent and self-motivated and very thorough worker
Where permitted by applicable law, must have received or be willing to receive the COVID-19 vaccine by date of hire to be considered for U.S.-based job, if not currently employed by Delta Air Lines, Inc.

WHAT WILL GIVE YOU A COMPETITIVE EDGE (PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS)

Candidate must have excellent communication skills (both written and verbal), demonstrated teamwork skills, be innovative, creative and have strong problem-solving abilities.