Responsibilities:

The Senior Cloud Engineer leads the design, maintenance, transition to, and operations of cloud platforms. The Engineer collaborates with stakeholders to obtain and translate business requirements into technical implementations and provides guidance to technical teams regarding architectural and procedural best practices and functional experience. This position is considered advanced level and performs work of moderate to high complexity. The incumbent works under general supervision and may lead some efforts autonomously. Leads the technical design, maintenance, and operation of cloud-based platforms. Leads automation efforts to minimize manual work and ensure transparency in all aspects of the secure cloud ecosystem. Implements hybrid IT by integrating different cloud services with back-end, traditional data center services. Migrates legacy applications to public cloud services in a rehosting approach or in a revising approach for efficiency, agility, and disaster recovery. Partners with stakeholders to obtain and translate requirements into technical implementations. Integrates existing legacy systems with proposed systems by identifying gaps between the current and future state. Oversees and develops continuous delivery framework and tools. Develops testing use cases and detailed testing plans that map to the documented business and technical requirements. Leads technical and end-user resources to execute detailed tests and analyze testing results. Assists with implementation of customer side monitoring tools and may lead operation outage events. Provides timely/responsive technical support including rotational on call support. Contractor will be a member of the Solutions Engineering & Cloud Operations (SE&CO) team where our mission is to design, build, and deliver high quality, secure, cost-effective, and innovative enterprise solutions for the Bank. The engineer will lead the design, maintenance, transition to, and operations of cloud platforms. The Engineer collaborates with stakeholders to obtain and translate business requirements into technical implementations and provides guidance to technical teams regarding architectural and procedural best practices and functional experience. This role will participate in multiple workstreams with varying levels of skillset in the cloud. Supporting cloud migrations, deployments & ongoing operations across the organization Refactoring and/or developing new cloud-based applications (around 24 applications) Maintaining & developing CI/CD pipelines Qualifications : Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent background or experience Minimum 3 years of work experience Experience integrating legacy platforms and applications with cloud-based systems. Advanced understanding of infrastructure as code tools Advanced knowledge with system configuration tools Experience with implementing architectural frameworks Advanced experience with source code management tools Advanced experience with CI/build tools. Experience with various programming languages Experience with Web Services, API, REST, RPC Experience with deploying, managing, operating, and monitoring of applications in scalable, highly available and fault tolerant data centers (both on premise and hosted). Understanding of scripting CI/CD (GitLab) Terraform AWS Collaboration & Teamwork Autonomy and Critical Thinking Ability to assess necessary activities and prioritize for completion of assignments using excellent time management, prioritization skills and work ethic. Exp. w/ financial regulatory/compliance desired

Benefits:

Healthcare Insurance: Synectics offers eligible employees and their dependents healthcare coverage through BlueCross BlueShield of Illinois. Eligibility begins on the 1st day of the calendar month following 60 days of continuous full time employment with Synectics. Premiums are subsidized by Synectics.

Dental Insurance: Synectics offers eligible employees and their dependents a dental plan through MetLife. Eligibility begins on the 1st day of the calendar month following 60 days of continuous full time employment with Synectics.

Vision Insurance : Synectics offers eligible employees vision insurance through VSP. Eligibility begins on the 1st day of the calendar month following 60 days of continuous full time employment with Synectics.401(k) Plan: The Synectics Inc. Investment Savings Retirement Plan. Synectics offers all employees who are 21 years of age or older the opportunity to invest in the 401(k) Plan on the first enrollment date that is at least 30 days after employment begins. Enrollment dates are each January 1st, April 1st, July 1st, and October 1st.

Technical Certification Bonus: Synectics is pleased to award its employees a bonus of up to $500 for an approved professional certification. In determining the bonus amount, Synectics will consider the cost of the test(s) for any certification relating to your current position, achieved during your employment with us. Only one Certification Bonus per calendar year may be awarded per employee. Only current, active employees will be eligible to receive this bonus. It will be awarded 90 days after the Synectics office has received documentation confirming the successful completion of the certification.

Synectics is an equal opportunity employer.

Benefits:

Healthcare Insurance: Synectics offers eligible employees and their dependents healthcare coverage through BlueCross BlueShield of Illinois. Eligibility begins on the 1st day of the calendar month following 60 days of continuous full time employment with Synectics. Premiums are subsidized by Synectics.

Dental Insurance: Synectics offers eligible employees and their dependents a dental plan through MetLife. Eligibility begins on the 1st day of the calendar month following 60 days of continuous full time employment with Synectics.

Vision Insurance : Synectics offers eligible employees vision insurance through VSP. Eligibility begins on the 1st day of the calendar month following 60 days of continuous full time employment with Synectics.401(k) Plan: The Synectics Inc. Investment Savings Retirement Plan. Synectics offers all employees who are 21 years of age or older the opportunity to invest in the 401(k) Plan on the first enrollment date that is at least 30 days after employment begins. Enrollment dates are each January 1st, April 1st, July 1st, and October 1st.

Technical Certification Bonus: Synectics is pleased to award its employees a bonus of up to $500 for an approved professional certification. In determining the bonus amount, Synectics will consider the cost of the test(s) for any certification relating to your current position, achieved during your employment with us. Only one Certification Bonus per calendar year may be awarded per employee. Only current, active employees will be eligible to receive this bonus. It will be awarded 90 days after the Synectics office has received documentation confirming the successful completion of the certification.

Synectics is an equal opportunity employer.