Lead Cloud Engineer
United States - Remote•United StatesNorth America•March 8, 2025
Job Summary: Rackspace is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Lead Cloud Engineer. We’re currently migrating a new customer up into a multicloud environment. This is truly a greenfield project where you’ll be the technical expert in cloud Infrastructure Support, overseeing various aspects of network architecture, information security, IT system Administration and Tools, and DevOps processes. Work Location: USRemote
Key Responsibilities:
- Play a crucial role in overseeing and coordinating the technical, peripheral, and management aspects of our cloud infrastructure and DevOps requirements.
- Identify and address product bugs, deficiencies, and performance bottlenecks.
- Work with customers engineering teams on a wide variety of projects.
- Implement automation/DevOps best practices for CI/CD, IaC, Containerization, etc.
- Perform Linux/Windows administration, automated deployments, scripting (Bash/PowerShell/Python).
- Collaborate with fellow Rackers and customer key stakeholders to deliver projects, such as implementing Cloud-based technical architectures, executing migrations, and optimizing applications that enable business objectives.
- Serve as a technical advisor and perform troubleshooting to resolve technical challenges for customers.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in information technology or a related field required, master’s degree preferred. Additional experience may substitute for the degree requirement at a rate of 3 years of experience for 1 year of education.
- AWS Solutions Architect certification is preferred.
- 7+ years of combined technical support experience
- Expert level knowledge of AWS and Azure.
- Familiarity with GCP.
- Experience working in a project environment, in a supplier, vendor or consultant capacity.
- Experience with cloud migrations from onprem -> cloud.
- Administration experience with both Windows and Linux Servers.
- Experienced with cloud monitoring tools such as service now.
- Experienced with DevOps, CI/CD deployments, and Kubernetes. Discover your inner Racker: Racker LifeInformation on benefits is offered here: benefits