Cloud Engineer Jobs in Birmingham, AL

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Job Description:
At Regions, the Cloud DevSecOps Engineer contributes to the advancement of cloud strategy. The primary focus of this role includes developing, communicating, and implementing robust and secure cloud continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines. This role works closely with stakeholders to create fully automated pipelines which support current DevSecOps best practices.

Primary Responsibilities
Partners with other engineers and information technology staff to orchestrate code builds, quality and security analyses, deployments, and automated testing through CI/CD release candidacy pipelines
Articulates business needs and translate them into technology solutions
Models release candidate CI/CD pipelines as a mechanism to communicate the states and steps necessary to determine a release candidate for each application and service
Designs and develops fully autonomous CI/CD pipelines which facilitate cloud deployments which includes automation of all infrastructure, services and application build and deployment
Ensures that all parts of the pipeline follow good software engineering practices to include automated tests and infrastructure tests
Researches new technologies that will improve efficiency and effectiveness
Implements highly scalable CI/CD platforms to support high change volumes and fast feedback
Automates operational activities and tasks
Responds to performance issues identified by alerts and reported incidents related to CI/CD platforms
Builds tools which reduce errors and improve our overall customer experiences
Assists in troubleshooting of production issues and ensure pipeline and infrastructure produces clear documentation and metrics which enables Root Cause Analysis
Develops and tests – Ansible Playbooks, Terraform Scripts, Packer Scripts and establish immutable infrastructure such that patches are an artifact of the past
Works with Enterprise Architecture, Information Security (InfoSec), Software Delivery, and Quality Assurance to enable the organization to move to the cloud using complete automation

Partners across Technology, Operations, Digital, and Data (TODD) to ensure controls are designed, implemented, and monitored to strengthen risk management, compliance, and cyber security, effectively mitigating risk to levels within the company’s risk appetite

Practices disciplined change management by evaluating risk and control impacts when designing or implementing changes to processes, systems, products, and/or services and ensures appropriate updates to procedures, training, and controls are made accordingly

This position is exempt from timekeeping requirements under the Fair Labor Standards Act and is not eligible for overtime pay.

Requirements
High School Diploma or GED and eight (8) years of related post-secondary education and/or experience in Information Security or Information Technology

Preferences
Four (4) years of relevant DevSecOps experience
AWS DevOps certification or Azure DevOps certification
Experience in building / deploying cloud native applications – OpenShift, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Experience in observing real-time metrics in the pipeline and deployment strategies – Blue/Green, Canary Deployment
Experience with either AWS or Azure cloud technologies
Experience with interfacing with secrets management solutions like Hashicorp Vault
Familiar with implementing Chaos engineering principles in the pipeline to determine weak links and suggest solutions.
Familiar with testing tools used to facilitate automation and integration of the tools into CI/CD pipelines
Must be comfortable in developing pipelines as code using yaml specs, ansible playbooks

Skills and Competencies
Ability to interpret and ensure compliance with applicable rules, regulations, and industry guidance
Excellent communication skills and willing to mentor developers and other team members in the art of DevSecOps
Excellent knowledge of Cloud infrastructure, networking, services, and cloud architectural patterns; specifically, compute using virtual machines, managed infrastructure, containers, serverless, as well as database services, security services, and application services
Proficient in python programming language
Understanding of Shift Left principles and facilitation technologies
Working Knowledge of Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Ansible, Terraform, Packer, Git, ServiceNow a big plus

Hands-on experience applying AI or Generative AI in a business or technical setting is strongly preferred.

This position is currently offsite, preferably close to a Regions office within our retail branch footprint (click here to see our locations). Associates will work from their home primarily and may be expected to go on site for meetings or other events as needed.

Regions will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position at this time. Applicants for this position must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

Position Type Full time

Compensation Details
Pay ranges are job specific and are provided as a point-of-market reference for compensation decisions. Other factors which directly impact pay for individual associates include: experience, skills, knowledge, contribution, job location and, most importantly, performance in the job role. As these factors vary by individuals, pay will also vary among individual associates within the same job.

The target information listed below is based on the Metropolitan Statistical Area Market Range for where the position is located and level of the position.

Job Range Target:
Minimum: $133,059.85 USD
Median: $166,810.00 USD

Incentive Pay Plans: This job may participate in an annual discretionary bonus plan.

Benefits Information
Regions offers a benefits package that is flexible, comprehensive and recognizes that "one size does not fit all" for benefits-eligible associates. Listed below is a synopsis of the benefits offered by Regions for informational purposes, which is not intended to be a complete summary of plan terms and conditions.

Paid Vacation/Sick Time

401K with Company Match

Medical, Dental and Vision Benefits

Disability Benefits

Health Savings Account

Flexible Spending Account

Life Insurance

Parental Leave

Employee Assistance Program

Associate Volunteer Program

Please note, benefits and plans may be changed, amended, or terminated with respect to all or any class of associate at any time. To learn more about Regions’ benefits, please click or copy the link below to your browser.

https://www.regions.com/about-regions/welcome-portal/benefits

Location Details Riverchase Operations Center
Location: Hoover, Alabama

Equal Opportunity Employer/including Disabled/Veterans

Job applications at Regions are accepted electronically through our career site for a minimum of five business days from the date of posting. Job postings for higher-volume positions may remain active for longer than the minimum period due to business need and may be closed at any time thereafter at the discretion of the company.