ClientSolv Technologies is an IT solution firm with over a decade of experience serving Fortune 1000 companies, public sector and small to medium sized companies. ClientSolv Technologies is a woman-owned and operated company that is certified as a WMBE, 8a firm by the Federal government's Small Business Administration.

We are seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer for a contract-to- hire role in St. Paul, MN or REMOTE/Telecommute.   This role will be responsible for the following:

• Assist with the design and building of reliable, fault tolerant cloud infrastructure following industry best practices.
• Perform hands on management of cloud infrastructure
• Document cloud infrastructure and policies
• Identify automation opportunities and implement using tools such as Ansible, vRealize, Terraform, cloud formation templates, and other similar tools.
• Work with Projects to help them adopt cloud infrastructure and services in order to reduce cost and deployment times.
• Mentor and train other members of the IT team
• Understand on-premise policies, solutions, and technologies and integrate with the cloud infrastructure where applicable.
• Understanding cloud security best practices and work with Security teams to design and implement a security infrastructure
• Serve as a technical point of contract for cloud services and help with communication of cloud services to projects

• Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college or university in Computer Science, 
• Information Technology, or a related field. Equivalent experience considered in lieu 
• of degree
• Terraform
• AWS
• Packer
• Ansible 
• Ec2
• 3 years of solid AWS experience
• 5-7 years of overall IT experience
• 5 years of scripting/automation experience
• Working knowledge of service, networking and storage concepts
• Understanding of Active Directory and Active Directory Federation Services
• Experience working in VMWare environment
• Linux (Redhat/Centos) experience
• Excellent organization and communication skills, both written and verbal
•  Excellent interpersonal skills to interact with customers, senior-level personnel and team members
•  Ability to work well both independently and in teams
• Ability to multi-task and to prioritize rapidly-changing task assignments
• Experience working in a fast-paced and deadline-oriented environment

Additional preferred experience:

• Use of automation tools such as ansible, puppet, and chef strongly preferred
• Experience with vRealize
• Experience with Terraform
• Git/Github experience
• Experience with Federal security best practices
• Working knowledge of virtualization technologies and shared infrastructure.
• Good scripting skills using shell and/or python.
• Experience with load balancers and firewalls
• Experience working in an ITIL environment

• AWS Solutions Architect – Associate, Professional (preferred)
• Red Hat Certified System Administrator (preferred)

This contract-to-hire opportunity can be remote/telecommuting or onsite in St. Paul, MN.  There will be a phone and Skype interview for this role.