Cloud Engineer II

Join the Churchill Downs Inc. team! Its namesake racetrack, Churchill Downs, in Louisville, KY, opened in 1875, and is most widely known for the Kentucky Derby. As the Kentucky Derby legacy has evolved over 130-plus years, so has CDI, to a multi-state, publicly traded company with racetracks, casinos and the United States' leading online wagering company among its growing portfolio of successful businesses. Apply now to join our dynamic CDI team!

Why Choose Churchill Downs?

We are an inclusive and fun place to work. We celebrate unique approaches and points of view. We believe diversity is a mindset that drives excellence. We're always learning, evolving and growing. We innovate through mutual respect of ideas and collaboration. This allows us to build a common language that inspires our team members and propels us toward the achievement of our vision.

The Cloud Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, maintaining, troubleshooting, monitoring, and reporting of the enterprise cloud infrastructures of Churchill Downs Incorporated and its related properties.

*This position is onsite in our Louisville corporate office on North Hurstbourne Parkway.

What's in it for you:

• Opportunity to create extraordinary experiences with an awesome team!
• Employee Stock Purchase Program
• Tuition reimbursement and tuition discounts
• 401K matching
• Growth opportunities
• Medical, dental, vision, and other benefits

Key details of what you will do in this role:

• Plan, implement, and grow the AWS cloud infrastructure and cloud architecture.
• Build, release, and manage the configuration of all production systems.
• Manage a continuous integration and deployment methodology for cloud infrastructure and services.
• Work alongside architecture and engineering teams to design and implement scalable infrastructure and services.
• Align cloud security to enterprise best practices.
• Evaluate solutions that align to tactical and strategic company initiatives.
• Recommend process and architecture improvements.
• Resolve and manage incidents for infrastructure and services to align to departmental or business SLAs.
• Participate in on-call rotation for incident management and escalation.
• Work appropriate level requests from ticket queue.
• Work with vendors to resolve hardware and software issues.
• Gather and maintain data for capacity planning and performance analysis of cloud infrastructure.
• Stay current on emerging technologies and products, including attaining certifications and participation in industry events, as appropriate.

What you need for this role:

• 4-year degree in IT/IS or other closely related discipline; may consider experience and certifications for degree requirement.
• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
• 3+ years of experience designing and building web environments on AWS, which includes working with services like EC2, ELB, RDS, and S3
• 3+ years of experience in Linux/Unix and Windows server system administration
• 3+ years of experience with hypervisors such as VMware, Citrix Xen or Openstack
• 3+ years of experience using DevOps tools in a cloud environment, such as Ansible, Artifactory, Docker, GitHub, Jenkins or Kubernetes
• 3+ years of experience with build and deploy practices
• Ability to work certain night/weekend shifts on an as-needed basis for major infrastructure changes.
• Travel may be required for this position (typically up to 15%, although subject to change).

It's the icing on the cake if you have these:

• Current AWS associate, professional, and/or specialty certifications
• ITIL or Six Sigma certified

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand, walk, and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. There are certain events (The Kentucky Derby) each year where numerous days of extensive walking will be required.