Cloud Architect

Job Description

Overview

The Audacy Engineering team is looking for the right person to join us. We are building cutting edge media software and your cloud experience and skills will help ensure we're doing so using the best solutions for the job. You'll have a chance to focus in areas you're already skilled and take on new challenges over time.
Our distributed team has a fun and inclusive environment with a commitment to work life balance.

We are engineers and we understand what engineers need. We'll provide you with a work environment where collaboration is encouraged but you're not bombarded with superfluous interruptions. We have highly encouraged communication silent times each afternoon so that everyone can focus without worrying they're missing anything. We work in modern agile feature teams that self-organize and work together to build great software. You'll have the opportunity to contribute to new ideas, learn new technologies, and architect new features. We have fun doing what we do, and you will too.

Audacy offers full time employees with a comprehensive benefits package to include: health care coordinator, medical, dental, vision, telemedicine, flexible spending accounts, health savings account, disability, life insurance, critical illness, hospital indemnity, accident insurance, paid time off (sick, vacation, personal, parental, volunteer), 401(k) retirement plan, discounted employee stock purchase, student loan payment assistance program, legal assistance, life assistance program, identity theft protection, discounted home and auto insurance, and pet insurance.

Responsibilities

What You'll Do:
• Establishing best practices for the cloud across Audacy.
• Turning technical requirements into cloud architectural design.
• Comparing competing cloud technologies and providing analysis, and managing the adoption of those tools.
• Working closely with sec ops to manage privacy and help mitigate risk.
• Helping to manage our cloud budget, estimating costs, and optimizing our spend.
• Partnering with dev ops, engineering leaders, data engineers, sec ops, and other teams to plan and implement the best solutions possible with an emphasis on security,
• Participating in tech spikes and feasibility studies to help flesh out new ideas and unknowns.
• Contributing using your awesome verbal and written communication skills.
• Acquiring new skills, broadening existing skills, and contributing to others through knowledge sharing – we are better together.

Qualifications

About You:

Required Traits:
• You understand services offered by the major cloud providers (primarily AWS) and can design solutions to technical problems using these services.
• You have proven experience developing and implementing cloud strategies.
• You possess a solid understanding of Linux based systems.
• You take security seriously and understand the primary methods of cloud security including VPCs, parameters stores, service accounts, etc.
• You have some experience with cloud networking, DNS, and routing.
• You work well with competing tasks, and if things change, you pivot quickly and execute smoothly.
• AWS Certified Solution Architect cert.
Other cloud certifications are a plus e.g. GCP Architect, CCSK (Certificate of Cloud Security)
• 5+ years of enterprise or related experience.

Technologies we use (you should know some of these):
• Kubernetes, Docker, EKS, ECS
• Terraform, Terragrunt, Gitlab
• Airflow, Kafka
• SnowFlake, MySQL, BigQuery

Responsibilities:

What You'll Do:
- Establishing best practices for the cloud across Audacy.
- Turning technical requirements into cloud architectural design.
- Comparing competing cloud technologies and providing analysis, and managing the adoption of those tools.
- Working closely with sec ops to manage privacy and help mitigate risk.
- Helping to manage our cloud budget, estimating costs, and optimizing our spend.
- Partnering with dev ops, engineering leaders, data engineers, sec ops, and other teams to plan and implement the best solutions possible with an emphasis on security,
- Participating in tech spikes and feasibility studies to help flesh out new ideas and unknowns.
- Contributing using your awesome verbal and written communication skills.
- Acquiring new skills, broadening existing skills, and contributing to others through knowledge sharing – we are better together.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-romqz3-18-191-202-45-42 in your application.