Senior Aws Cloud Engineer

This role will help drive and implement engineering solutions and strategies that will enable DevOps and hybrid cloud technology adoption for our Raymond James Bank. This includes designing and participating in the development of cloud-based solutions that scale to help deliver both internal and business facing applications. This role will leverage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) frameworks and programming languages to provide a repeatable catalog of secure platform services including virtualized and container-hosted services. This is a hands-on role where the candidate will be expected to code and oversee the development by other team members. This will be a hybrid-based position in our Saint Petersburg, FL headquarters.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Research and recommend innovative technologies and approaches for private and public cloud infrastructure management, upgrades, or improvements, while adhering to technical or budgetary constraints.
• Obtain and evaluate information on factors such as costs, performance, and security to determine solution patterns and services.
• Writes and/or reviews system specifications, including output requirements, flow charts and technical diagrams.
• Provide technical leadership, including mentoring others, gaining consensus across teams & individuals, substantiating technical decisions, validating team recommendations, integrating efforts into a comprehensive strategy, and delivering results on time.
• Proactively plan capacity monitoring and scaling of platforms and applications.
• May occasionally work a non-standard schedule including nights and/or weekends and/or have on-call responsibilities.
• Participate in software system programming, validation, deployment, and documentation.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Knowledge of:

• Hands on Experience with AWS services is strongly preferred (Redshift, Lambda functions, S3, EC2, etc…).
• Financial Services Industry knowledge is a plus.
• Hands on knowledge of orchestration techniques that manage complex dependencies between inputs and processing steps.
• Hands on experience with AWS CDK

Skill in:

• Expert in Python or another object-oriented language.
• Modern development lifecycle experience including Agile methodology, CI/CD, automated deployments, etc.
• Must have strong database skills (Oracle, SQL Server, ETL & ELT).
• Participate in and contribute to peer code reviews.
• Willingness to learn new technology.

Ability to:

• Clearly convey information and ideas through a variety of media to individuals or groups in a manner that engages the audience and helps them understand and retain the message.
• Demonstrate a satisfactory level of technical and professional skill or knowledge in position-related areas; remains current with developments and trends in areas of expertise.
• Identify and understand issues, problems and opportunities; compare data from different sources to draw conclusions.
• Develop and use collaborative relationships to facilitate the accomplishment of work goals.
• Make internal and external clients and their needs a primary focus of actions; develop and sustain productive client relationships.
• Occasionally work a non-standard shift including nights and/or weekends and/or have on-call responsibilities.
• Use effective approaches for choosing a course of action or developing appropriate solutions; recommend or take action that is consistent with available facts, constraints and probable consequences.

Education/Previous Experience:

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, MIS, Business or related degree and three (3) to five (5) years of relevant experience or a combination of education, training and experience approved by HR.
• Ideally three (3) to five (5) years of large scale data engineering, with at least one implementation in AWS, ideally using Redshift, DMS, Step Functions and Lambdas

Licenses/Certifications:

• AWS Certifications preferred but not required.

At Raymond James our associates use five guiding behaviors (Develop, Collaborate, Decide, Deliver, Improve) to deliver on the firm's core values of client-first, integrity, independence and a conservative, long-term view.

At Raymond James – we honor, value, respect the uniqueness, experiences, and backgrounds of all of our Associates. When associates bring their best authentic self, our organization, clients and communities thrive, it is part of our part of our people-first culture. The Company is an equal opportunity employer and makes all employment decisions on the basis of merit and business needs.