Question

What is the job role for a Cloud Automation Engineer?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

The responsibilities of a Cloud Automation engineer are as follows:

• Provide software delivery operations and application release management support, including coding and scripting, automated build and deployment processing, agile deployment, and process reengineering.
• Performs script maintenance and updates due to changes in requirements or implementations.
• Builds automated deployments for consistent software releases with zero downtime (through build process, packaging, testing and automatic deployment).
• Deploys new modules, upgrades and fixes to the production environment. May assist in production support.
• Evaluates existing applications and platforms and provides recommendations for improving performance by conducting gap analysis, identifying feasible alternative solutions, and assisting in the scope of modifications.