Cloud Engineer

Basic information

Job Name:

Cloud Engineer

Location:

Washington, DC

Line of Business:

Global Technology & Solutions

Job Function:

Investor Services

Date:

Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Position Summary

Carlyle is looking for a Cloud Engineer to join our Enterprise Technology practice. Are you passionate about building and pioneering cloud solutions? Do you enjoy solving complex business problems in a fast-paced, collaborative, and iterative delivery environment? In this exciting role, you are responsible for partnering with technical teams, product owners, and other business stakeholders to design, build, and maintain solutions on our cloud platforms.

The ideal candidate has the following skills and competencies:

• Cloud Fluency: You have deep technical knowledge of AWS and are comfortable learning about and working with other cloud platforms such as Azure and Snowflake. You have architected, implemented, or operated large-scale cloud platforms in previous roles.

• Leadership: You are confident working in a matrixed management environment, collaborating with security, networking, and systems teams to integrate cloud platforms with existing infrastructure and tooling.

• Communication: You know how to evangelize cloud technology and its benefits to stakeholders. You are adept at building relationships and establishing credibility upstream and downstream, across technical and non-technical colleagues.

• Problem Solving: You are skilled at identifying stakeholder needs and translating feedback into real solutions that solve real problems. You are a whiz at balancing multiple commitments and prioritizing the most important work.

• Can-Do Attitude: You are both a doer and disruptor. You aren't afraid to take on new responsibilities, seek out continuous learning, and strive to innovate.

Responsibilities

• Work alongside project teams, enterprise architects, infrastructure, networking, and security teams to develop logical & technical cloud architectures, API designs, and functional requirements for secure AWS environments.

• Design and support implementation of cloud-based capabilities and technologies including as containers, serverless, infrastructure-as-code, and cloud orchestration/automation.

• Contribute technical expertise on complex problems, technology selection, solution design, deployment, and maintenance for AWS environments.

• Review and uplift IT processes, specifically focused on cloud operations, development and automation, to build a modern cloud environment taking advantage of new technologies and ways of working.

• Support the day-to-day operations of Carlyle's AWS environment, providing SME input for application and infrastructure teams.

• Communicate effectively with technical staff, business stakeholders, and IT leadership

• Effectively solve complex problems with innovative solutions

• Develop and evangelize for cloud-focused technologies and processes, and their benefits to business and technical teams

Qualifications

Education & Certificates

• Bachelor's Degree required

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, or similar discipline, strongly preferred

• AWS Certified Solution Architect, AWS Certified System Administrator, or similar certifications strongly preferred

• Industry standard certifications preferred

Professional Experience

• 6+ years of overall relevant IT experience, required

• 4+ years design, implement and supporting cloud platforms (primarily AWS), strongly preferred

• Manage AWS resource lifecycles including design, provisioning, security, and automation

• Develop, integrate, and manage a variety of AWS services including VPC, Lambda, SNS, SQS etc. Demonstrated experience in cloud-focused technologies such as containers, serverless, immutable and ephemeral infrastructure, etc

• Establish metrics and monitor the utilization of AWS resources leveraging tools such as AWS CloudWatch, CloudTrail and DataDog

• Possess hands on knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, Cloudformation, AWS CDK.) and working knowledge of modern programming or scripting languages (e.g., Python, JavaScript, Powershell, .Net, etc.)

• Experience building DevOps/Agile style development processes within an organization. Drive DevOps Adoption Strategy with your industry experience

• Maintain and share best practices in cloud performance measurement, migration, and implementation based on leading industry trends Provide insights and recommendations on best practices and solution architecture patterns

• Strong communication skillset to build confidence with stakeholders and team members

• Demonstrated experience working across multiple technology and project teams to design and build solutions

• Skilled in presenting information and/or ideas to an audience in a way that is engaging and easy to understand

• Strong verbal and written communications skills

• Strong process management and problem resolution skills

• Proven ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment

• Ability to effectively and confidently communicate and present complex topics to stakeholders of different levels and backgrounds

Competencies & Attributes

• Strong demonstrated working experience in the AWS cloud developing, integrating, and managing AWS resources

• Experience implementing and using common cloud development tools and services such as Terraform, Cloudformation, Lambda, etc

• Experience with common operational ITSM and CI/CD tools (such as ServiceNow, Azure Devops, Jenkins, Datadog, etc)

Due to the high volume of candidates, please be advised that only candidates selected to interview will be contacted by The Carlyle Group.

Company Information

The Carlyle Group (NASDAQ: CG) is a global investment firm with $376 billion of assets under management and more than half of the AUM managed by women, across 520 investment vehicles as of June 30, 2022. Founded in 1987 in Washington, DC, Carlyle has grown into one of the world's largest and most successful investment firms, with nearly 1,900 professionals operating in 26 offices in North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Australia. Carlyle places an emphasis on development, retention and inclusion as supported by our internal processes and seven Employee Resource Groups (ERGs). Carlyle's purpose is to invest wisely and create value on behalf of its investors, which range from public and private pension funds to wealthy individuals and families to sovereign wealth funds, unions and corporations. Carlyle invests across three segments - Global Private Equity, Global Credit and Investment Solutions - and has expertise in various industries, including: aerospace, defense & government services, consumer & retail, energy, financial services, healthcare, industrial, real estate, technology & business services, telecommunications & media and transportation.

At Carlyle, we know that diverse teams perform better, so we seek to create a community where we continually exchange insights, embrace different perspectives and leverage diversity as a competitive advantage. That is why we are committed to growing and cultivating teams that include people with a variety of perspectives, people who provide unique lenses through which to view potential deals, support and run our business.