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This role seeks a Senior Cloud Engineer to implement and refine cloud infrastructure primarily on GCP while collaborating across teams to deliver resilient and secure solutions.

Responsibilities: Key responsibilities include implementing public cloud infrastructure, collaborating with other engineers, developing automation frameworks, and ensuring compliance with security and best practices.

Skills: Required skills include advanced experience with GCP, Terraform, container orchestration engines, CI/CD pipelines, and strong problem-solving abilities.

Qualifications: Preferred qualifications include 7+ years in cloud engineering, multi-cloud experience, and cloud certifications in AWS, GCP, or Azure.

Location: This position is based in Minneapolis, MN, and offers the flexibility to work remotely or onsite.

Compensation: $103900 - $155900 / Annually

We are seeking a senior cloud engineer with expertise in modern cloud platforms, infrastructure automation, and security. This role partners across the organization to deliver scalable, secure, and resilient solutions that increase agility, flexibility, and durability.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Working under the direction of the IT Manager, a successful Senior Cloud Engineer (SCE) will work to implement and refine public cloud computing infrastructure, primarily in GCP. The SCE will actively participate with other engineers and developers across the organization to implement new workloads in public cloud and refactor existing workloads to meet industry and business best practices. The SCE will also work to develop systems, tools, and infrastructure that will allow teams engaging with public cloud resources faster and more consistently to promote growth and innovation.

Job Skills:

• Advanced experience in Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Experience supporting and deploying a range of public cloud computing services, including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS deployments.
• Experience building or managing self-service platforms, developer portals, reusable modules, and automation frameworks used to accelerate developer productivity.
• Demonstrable skills using Infrastructure as Code, idempotency, and repeatable tooling.
• Proven experience operating and managing container orchestration engines such as Kubernetes.
• Expertise in diagnosing and resolving complex issues across automation and cloud environments.
• Advanced experience architecting and managing highly-available and highly-performant multi-zonal and/or multi-regional systems. Bonus points if you’re experienced in helping development teams shift that left.
• Experience leveraging API-driven secrets management and configuration tooling, such as HashiCorp Vault and Google Cloud Secrets Manager.
• Advanced understanding of networking concepts such as the Border Gateway Protocol, especially as it relates to public cloud infrastructure and on-premise components.
• Demonstrated understanding of infrastructure CI/CD pipelines and their related tooling, such as GitlabCI and ArgoCD.
• Ability to operate from within task and project management tools such as Jira and service desk tools such as Salesforce
• Collaborate with developers, SREs, information security analysts, and the business to ensure infrastructure aligns with best practices in security, compliance, and performance.
• Participate in root cause analysis, compliance and audit reviews, and on-call support rotations.

Required Skills & Experience:

• 7+ years experience in cloud engineering role.
• 10+ years total industry experience, spanning any of IaC, systems engineering, cloud engineering/support, networking, DevOps, software development, or SRE.
• Expert level proficiency with Terraform, including writing custom modules and familiarity with complementary tools.
• Strong experience with cloud identity and access management / IdP integrations, secrets management, least privilege, and security best practices.
• Advanced understanding of networking concepts (e.g.; BGP, hybrid connectivity, cloud-on-prem integrations, load balancing.)
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation tooling.
• Experience migrating workloads from on-prem to cloud.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Experience working in an “agile-like” environment.
• Strong time management skills.

Preferred Experience:

• Proactively communicates with others and demonstrates clear presentation and communication skills.
• Multi-cloud experience in AWS, GCP, and Azure a plus.
• Experience architecting and operating systems under compliance or regulatory frameworks a plus.

Education:

• bachelor's degree (preferred)

Certificates, licenses and registrations:

• Cloud certifications and training in AWS, GCP, Azure are a plus.

Other:

• Must be able to travel occasionally should a business need arise (less than 10%).
• Ability to work remote or onsite in Corporate location. This includes being mobile within the office, including movement from floor-to-floor using elevators or stairs.
• Ability to work in a setting which enables meeting all requirements of the role (including privacy, reliable internet access, phone, ability to video conference, etc.) at a remote location.
• Must be able to meet critical thinking and problem solving aspects aligned to job duties, as well as effectively communicating with co-workers.
• Must be able to work more than 40 hours per week when business needs warrant. Accommodations related to schedule may be considered.
• Participate in end-to-end root cause analysis and post-mortem reviews.
• Participate in compliance and security audits/reviews.
• Engage in 24x7 on-call rotation.
• Able to access information using a computer.
• Other essential functions and marginal job functions are subject to modification.

SEI offers a comprehensive package of benefits to employees scheduled 30 hours or more per week. In addition to medical, dental, vision, life and disability plans, SEI employees may take advantage of well-being incentives, parental leave, paid time off, certain paid holidays, tax saving accounts (FSA, HSA), 401(k) retirement benefit, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, tuition assistance as well as entertainment and retail discounts. Non-exempt employees are eligible for overtime pay, if applicable.

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SEI is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive and collaborative culture where individuals can grow their careers and contribute fully. We strive to attract talent with broad experiences, skills and perspectives. We welcome applications from all. While it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top end of the pay range at SEI, we offer a competitive salary. The actual base pay offered to the successful candidate may vary depending on multiple factors including, but not limited to, job-related knowledge/skills, experience, business needs, geographical location, and internal pay equity. Our Talent Acquisition Team is ready to discuss your interest in joining SEI. The expected salary range for this position is below.

$103,900.00 - $155,900.00 - Salary

If you require reasonable accommodations to complete our application process, please contact our Human Resources Department at [email protected].