Position Summary
The Cloud Automation Engineer is responsible for designing, documenting, provisioning, and maintaining cloud infrastructure via code. This Engineer prepares performance and cost-optimal cloud services to deliver infrastructure aligned with reference architecture standards, frameworks, and patterns. This Engineer maintains the infrastructure and collaborates with operational teams for change management and incident response. The Engineer excels when working on complex projects, is motivated to deliver results, maintains operational excellence, and exhibits the JetBlue values of Safety, Caring, Integrity, Passion, and Fun.
Essential Responsibilities
- Write and execute Infrastructure as Code (IaC) pipelines capable of deploying standard cloud services including Virtual Networks, Firewalls, Load Balancers, Storage Accounts, Application Program Interface (API) Management Gateways, Kubernetes clusters, Messaging bus services, Managed databases, and Virtual Machines
- Write and execute code capable of managing Cloud governance policies, security, and cost management constructs
- Implement and leverage Configuration Management and GitOps to maintain infrastructure leveraging Ansible, Salt, and Terraform
- Plan and build Cost effective Platform as a Service (PaaS) solutions including provisions for high availability and disaster recovery
- Code and deploy infrastructure leveraging Availability Zones/Availability Sets
- Create and maintain infrastructure documentation and operational procedures using tools such as Confluence and Lucidchart
- Collaborate and provide knowledge transfer to operational support teams and collogues
- Create monitor alerts and remediation workflows
- Build auto-remediation capabilities using automation frameworks and serverless functions
- Implement autoscaling features, container management policies, and specify virtual hardware to optimize for low cost and high application performance
- Monitor, operate, maintain, and improve cloud environment based on operational metrics, Service Level Agreements (SLAs), and best practices
- Other duties as assigned