Job Description

Jefferies Group LLC, the largest independent, global, full-service investment banking and capital markets firm headquartered in the U.S. focused on serving clients for 60 years, is a leader in providing insight, expertise and execution to investors, companies and governments. We offer deep sector expertise across a full range of products and services in investment banking, equities, fixed income, asset and wealth management in the Americas, Europe and the Middle East and Asia. Jefferies Group LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Jefferies Financial Group Inc. (NYSE: JEF), a diversified financial services company. 

Role Overview

We are looking for a competent person to join the global system engineering organization as a Cloud SME to define cutting edge global solutions in a hybrid multicloud environment. Responsibilities will include building scalable, stable, and highly available innovative solutions, automation and orchestration mechanisms and tooling for AWS and Azure Cloud platforms as well as working to continually enhance Jefferies existing virtualization estate.

This position is technical and hands-on and requires an open mind attitude to venture outside of their comfort zone when necessary. In addition, this individual will work closely with local and global technical leads, Engineering and Operations Teams and other cross-department teams to evaluate business needs and provide end-to-end technical solutions to drive the 5-year strategy for Jefferies.

As a key member of the system engineering team, the Cloud Engineer will be charged with designing, building, and managing AWS and Azure platform, ensuring solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud as well assist and encourage and build solutions for migrating on prem workloads into Aws and Azure.

Skills, Qualifications and Experience

Must have 3-5 Years’ experience in a Multi Cloud and preferrable Hybrid Cloud environment.

Hands-on AWS and Azure implementation experience across a broad range of AWS/Azure services.
Must have in depth AWS development experience (Containerization - Docker, Amazon EKS, Lambda, EC2, S3, Azure blob, Azure VM, service fabric, Azure AKS)
Strong knowledge of DevOps and CI/CD pipeline (GitHub, Jenkins, Artifactory, Jira, bitbucket, Bamboo)
Scripting capability and the ability to develop AWS/Azure Infrastructure environments as code
Experience with core AWS/Azure platform architecture, including areas such as:  Organizations, Account Design, VPC, Subnet, segmentation strategies., subscriptions, VNet, resource groups. Security groups, DNS, and routing. etc.
Transit gateways, VPC subnet, Route 53
Backup, HA and Disaster Recovery approach and design.
Environment and application automation
CloudFormation and third-party automation approach/strategy
Network connectivity, Direct Connect, Express Route and VPN
Good understanding of Compute, Databases, Analytics and security services and best practices in AWS and Azure.
AWS/Azure Cost Management and Optimization
Public cloud automaton tooling and scripting experience – Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Jenkins, Python, Power Shell.
Knowledge of Linux operating system.
Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with executives, IT Management, and developers
Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly
AWS/Azure/Kubernetes Certification Preferred.

Nice To have Skills

VMWare and Nutanix Hypervisors - Desired
Block storage (PURE), Netapp FSX experience is a plus
Compute (UCS & Synergy) is a plus
Knowledge on VMC and Nutanix on AWS is desired
Knowledge of Kubernetes EKS/On-prem, Rafay managed service) is a plus

Job Responsibilities

Architecting/operating innovative solutions built on AWS/Azure
Design and Implement AWS/Azure architectures and environments
Play a key role in migrating and transforming legacy solutions to the cloud
Design Native Cloud Application Architectures and optimize applications for AWS/Azure
Work with all the stake holders to on application migration from on-prem to cloud. Provide recommendations to app teams to design cloud architecture.
Use appropriate tools to automate deployment and orchestrate governance and security of Infrastructure as code and infrastructure in general.
Compose and leverage Infrastructure as code using CloudFormation and terraform templates for the repeatable deployment of infrastructure
Troubleshooting and resolving cloud-related issues. Using tools like Aviatrix, telnet, traceroute, Splunk etc.
Implement Cloud security best practices.
Review Cloud Architecture diagrams and deploy the solutions accordingly.
Design Well architected solutions in AWS/Azure.
Engineer cloud operational standards for new approved services and review/update existing ones.
Work with DevOps team to build Ci/CD pipelines for infrastructure and app teams.
Design, Review, Build and deploy and Manage Kubernetes Clusters in Multi Cloud Environment.
Managing IAM permissions the in the cloud and ensuring that the right users have access to the right services with the least privileges.
Work with vendors to bring new tools/ services to Jefferies
Setting naming/ working and operational standards for new services
Follow change control procedures and policies.