Senior Cloud Engineer

Q2 is focused on empowering returns on relationships for community-centered financial institutions and their consumer and commercial account holders. We do this with the most comprehensive, secure and adaptable smart banking platform of its kind, designed to deliver a compelling, consistent user experience on any device and enable customers to deliver secure, innovative services and increasingly, to generate new sources of revenue.

Q2 is seeking a  Senior Cloud Engineer to join the Q2 Datacenter Engineering team. This team is responsible for the architecture, deployment and point-escalation support of Q2’s customer facing Software as a Service (SaaS) and custom hosting products. This position will be responsible for making recommendations for improving the environment, leading projects and troubleshooting complex issues.

• Architect, plan and engineer solutions for improving the services for hosted applications
• Participate in the improvement of high availability and application architecture in coordination with development
• Actively contribute to the configuration, layout and performance tuning of production infrastructure
• Establish plans (tools, techniques & practices) to monitor and manage the production environment
• Scripting administrative tasks for consistency and mass deployments
• Provide senior level expertise support on services and devices
• Transfer knowledge to implementation and operations staff
• Lead projects, working with the workgroup to achieve defined goals within set timelines
• Perform maintenance related activities during scheduled weekend maintenance windows

Experience And Knowledge:

• 6-8 years of related experience in Linux Systems Administration
• Advanced knowledge and troubleshooting of Linux OS – CentOS specifically
• Working experience in either AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
• Working experience with Memcached, Consul, Kafka, Terraform, NGINX
• Working experience with Nomad, DCOS, Rancher, or similar technology
• Working experience with Ansible, Puppet, or Chef
• Working experience with Containers, Docker, automation and orchestration
• Effectively communicate issues and resolutions to all levels of the organization
• Ability to maintain confidentiality with sensitive customer and internal information

Preferred:

• Knowledge of Microsoft SQL, Cassandra, PostgreSQL
• Working knowledge of VMWare and EMC Storage
• Ability and desire to learn new skills quickly
• Certifications or an interest in pursuing certification