Cloud Engineer vacancy at Rackspace

Rackspace Technology is the multicloud solutions expert. We combine our expertise with the world’s leading technologies- across applications, data and security- to deliver end-to-end multicloud solutions. We have a proven record of advising customers based on their business challenges, designing solutions that scale, building and managing those solutions, and optimizing returns into the future.

As a global, multicloud technology services pioneer, we deliver the innovative capabilities of the cloud to help customers build new revenue streams, increase efficiency and create incredible experiences. Everything we do is wrapped in our obsession with our customers’ success – our Fanatical Experience™ – so they can work faster, smarter and stay ahead of what’s next. We’re honored to be one of the best places to work year after year according to Fortune, Forbes, and Glassdoor.

General overview of the role

You will be part of a team designing, automating, and deploying services on behalf of our customers to AWS in a way that allows these services to automatically heal themselves if things go south. We have deep experience applying DevOps techniques in virtually every industry. Every week is different and the problems you will be challenged to solve are constantly evolving. We know and understand DevOps. We build solutions using infrastructure-as-code so our customers can refine and reuse these processes again and again - all without having to come back to us for additional deployments.

Responsibilities

Working with customers engineering teams on a wide variety of projects
Writing infrastructure as code (CloudFormation, Terraform)
Implementing automation/DevOps best practices for CI/CD, IaC, Containerization, etc
Linux/Windows administration, automated deployments, scripting (Bash/PowerShell/Python)

Requirements

Solid understanding of the overall AWS Cloud infrastructure (EC2, RDS, S3, VPC, CloudFormation etc.)
Professional experience with CI/CD deployment
Working knowledge of Configuration Management frameworks such as Ansible, Chef or Puppet
Working knowledge using Terraform and/or CloudFormation
You are comfortable interacting with customers and have the ability to communicate as well as educate
Some experience with any of the following C#, Node.js, Python, Ruby, Go

Skills considered as a good plus

Service architecture and containerization, such as Docker, Kubernetes
Experience with data at scale, MySQL, MSSQL, Postgres, DynamoDB, Mongo, ElasticSearch
Knowledgeable about HIPAA, PCI and other security frameworks and standards
Solid understanding of AWS infrastructure
AWS Certifications
Proficient in networking and network security