IT Principal Engineer - Cloud Sltns

Description & Requirements

The IT Principal Engineer is responsible for planning, deployment, administration and advancing of application and system monitoring in an enterprise environment.

This is a remote position.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Translate conceptual user requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that is comprehensible to developers/project teams.
- Meet with business partners, project managers, and vendor partners to determine project scope and vision, set system goals, identify, and resolve system issues, and lead prioritization of build items.
- Communicate changes, enhancements, and modifications to stakeholders so that issues and solutions are understood.
- Identify and document business and functional requirements determined by business partners and stakeholders.

- Define, elicit, and analyze existing and new system functions and processes, make recommendations to meet the business goals and user needs.

- Frequently responsible for providing guidance, coaching, and training to other employees across the organization within area of expertise.

Job-Specific Essential Duties:

- Drive automation initiatives for log aggregation, anomaly detection, and performance optimization.

- Create and implement API integrations between various software systems.

- Gather and rationalize requirements, then develop data-driven solutions that meet business or internal requirements.

- Develop relationships with stakeholders at all levels of the organization to gain an understanding of business drivers and objectives, current IT capabilities, products, service roadmaps, and IT's operating model.

- Perform and lead POC (proof of concept) development and make recommendations to adopt evolving technological trends.

Minimum Requirements

- Bachelor's degree in relevant field of study and 10+ years of relevant professional experience required.

Job-Specific Minimum Requirements:

- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field with more than 10 years of relevant experience.

- Strong knowledge of monitoring frameworks, logging systems, and observability tools like Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, New Relic, or others.

- Working knowledge of native cloud services: AWS, Azure, GCP.

- Experience building and supporting products & services in "As a Service" models (e.g.

SaaS, IaaS, PaaS) and platforms.

(e.g.

AWS, Azure)

- Programming/scripting experience with languages: Python, PowerShell, JavaScript frameworks (NodeJS, Angular), Bash, Web Services.

- Experience with Agile/continuous integration/DevOps using code pipeline tools, Terraform, Azure Devops, GitHub.

- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal

- Ability to influence peers and superiors (technical and business) the strategic direction of overall solution.

- Must be able to perform comfortably in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented work environment of competing and alternating priorities.

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