The role that a Cloud Automation Engineer has to play in any organization are as follows:
- Participate in the design of service automation in cloud towards Infrastructure-as-code.
- Central to obtaining and processing requirements in order to transform application delivery for cloud in an agile fashion
- Leader of orchestration in cloud using Infrastructure-as-code while providing self-service capabilities to IT teams
- Active driver for Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery applications
- Maintain adherence to architectural standards/principles, global product-specific guidelines, usability design standards, etc.
- Provide support and documentation to assist in sustaining projects during the transition to production.
- Input into internal and external organizations towards development of standards as well as efficiencies
- Provide feedback regarding development and engineering methodologies, standards and leading practices.
- Involve and drive firm’s evolution towards DevSecOps and Agile Transformation
- Execution of process engineering and operational improvement initiatives for automation tooling focused on cloud
- Resolve and act as escalation and coordination point for incidents and problems related to affected automation
- Requirements gathering for design, development and deployment
- Root cause analysis and improvement solutions
- Executing scheduled or unscheduled automation in support of other technology domains
- Selects appropriately from applicable standards, methods, tools and applications and use accordingly.
- Ability to work well within a multi-disciplinary team structure, but also independently
- Ability to work with 3rd party vendors (i.e. Microsoft, Amazon, etc) for escalation of issues
- Demonstrates analytical and systematic approach to problem solving.
