Managed Services - Senior Cloud Engineer
Duties/Responsibilities
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Monitor and support cloud infrastructure, platform services, and operational tooling across customer environments.
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Respond to incidents, service requests, alerts, and escalations; perform triage, troubleshooting, service restoration, and follow-through to resolution.
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Execute standard changes and recurring operational tasks including provisioning, deprovisioning, access changes, maintenance activities, backup validation, patching coordination, and platform hygiene.
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Administer cloud resources across compute, storage, networking, identity, security, and governance services within one or more major cloud providers.
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Follow established ITSM processes for incident management, request fulfillment, change execution, escalation, documentation, and customer-facing status communication in accordance with service expectations.
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Participate in customer meetings, status calls, and service reviews in a professional and courteous manner.
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Work with Team Leads, Senior Cloud Engineers, architects, and other service delivery groups to resolve issues and complete operational work.
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Assist with monitoring, alerting, tagging, policy management, cost visibility, and compliance-related operational activities.
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Use scripting, automation and AI tools to improve consistency and reduce repetitive effort; familiarity with DevOps/SRE tooling is highly beneficial but not the primary emphasis of the role.
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Participate in an after-hours/on-call rotation and support weekend work for major incidents, maintenance windows, and customer-approved change activity, as needed.
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Other job duties as assigned.
Education and Experience
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Minimum Required - 3+ years in customer-facing IT infrastructure, cloud operations, systems administration, or managed services support.
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Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform, with strong operational capability in one of Azure, AWS, OCI, or GCP.
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Experience supporting incidents, requests, changes, or recurring administration activities in production environments.
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Familiarity with Windows and/or Linux server operations, identity and access concepts, networking fundamentals, and monitoring tools.
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Preferred - Experience in a managed services, consulting, or multi-customer support environment, with working familiarity across additional cloud platforms considered a plus.
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Working knowledge of PowerShell, Python, Bash, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, or other automation tooling used to support cloud operations.
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Relevant cloud, operations, or platform certifications are a plus.
Knowledge , Skills and Abilities
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Strong troubleshooting, operational execution, and issue ownership skills in live production environments.
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Ability to prioritize competing tickets and tasks, manage time effectively, and meet commitments across multiple customers or workstreams.
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Clear, professional verbal and written communication skills for customer-facing interactions and internal collaboration.
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Strong documentation discipline, attention to detail, and respect for change control and operational process.
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Working knowledge of identity and access management, RBAC, least privilege, security groups/firewall concepts, DNS, and core networking fundamentals.
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Familiarity with monitoring, alerting, logging, event response, and core ITSM disciplines used in managed cloud operations.
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Ability to work independently, escalate appropriately, and collaborate effectively across immediate, extended, and external teams.
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Familiarity with source control, pipelines, infrastructure as code, observability, and related DevOps/SRE concepts as supporting skills, not as the primary focus of the role.
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Ability to travel as required.
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Must be a self-starter and able to work without constant supervision.
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Consistently exhibits a positive attitude towards AHEAD and its customers.
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Works well with immediate, extend and external teams, a true team player.
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Consistently meets expectations in terms of customer-facing, writing, presentation and problem-solving skills.
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Consistently exhibits a positive attitude towards AHEAD and its customers.
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Willing to go the extra mile when asked to do so (i.e., time outside of normal working hours to support a customer initiative, production roll-out, could also be > 40 hours for short intervals).
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Highly respected by peers and sales team.
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Culture
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Support initiatives beyond area of responsibility
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Encourage cross team interaction
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Achieve success through others and not just self-actions
Skills
As published by lever · 12 questions · 1 written answer
Basics
Resume/CV, Full name, Pronouns, Email, Phone, Current location, Current company, LinkedIn URL, Twitter URL, GitHub URL, Portfolio URL, Other website
Short answers (7)
- Where do you currently reside? (City/State)?
- What % of travel are you open to?
- If so, where would you be open to relocating?
- Do you hold any industry related certifications?
- Expected Salary?
- Primary Residence Address
- Will you now or in the future require AHEAD to sponsor you for employment authorization in the United States?
Pick from a list (4)
- Are you willing to relocate if needed?
- Confirm the ability to perform the requisite duties of the role with or without reasonable accommodations optional
- Are you currently legally authorized to work in the United States? (Y/N) optional
- AHEAD will consider the contents of an uploaded resume or LinkedIn profile only insofar as it pertains to employment history, and any data that contains or could be a proxy for data that would indicate a person’s age, race, gender, disability status, veteran status, national origin, religion, or other protected characteristic will be disregarded optional
Written answers (1)
- Provide All Post-Secondary Education Attained - Formatted as: College Name; Degree Obtained (e.g.: University of Somewhere; Bachelor of Science). Please include only educational programs from which you graduated. **Any additional information provided, such as dates/year of graduation, will be disregarded.**
