Sr Cloud Engineer - Hybrid

At NRG, we're bringing the power of energy to people and organizations by putting customers at the center of everything we do. We generate electricity and provide energy solutions and natural gas to millions of customers through our diverse portfolio of retail brands. A Fortune 500 company, operating in the United States and Canada, NRG delivers innovative solutions while advocating for competitive energy markets and customer choice, working towards a sustainable energy future. More information is available at www.nrg.com. Connect with NRG on Facebook, LinkedIn and follow us on Twitter @nrgenergy.

Job Summary:

The Sr Cloud Engineer role is part of the Cloud COE, and is responsible for delivering Cloud solutions to the Application team (internal customer), based on customer requirements. The Sr Cloud Engineer is responsible for designing and building scalable, available, and secure architecture solutions, based on Architectural standards, availability of services, cost, network, security, storage, and Governance considerations. The Engineer should also be able to design, develop, test, and deploy secure custom workflows and scripts within the Cloud infrastructure that can be used for integration, deployment, monitoring, compliance, or other routine tasks.

Essential Duties/Responsibilities:

• Lead the implementation of solutions based on Architectural best practices and AWS Well Architected Framework
• Provides guidance on AWS, Azure and GCP Cloud offerings
• Assists business devops teams with the design and implementation of highly available, cost efficient and fault tolerant systems
• Leads the implementation of Cloud Architecture solutions, based on defined standards for Cloud COE - from an Application and Infrastructure perspective
• Leads the delivery of simple Cloud architecture patterns and implementations based on customer requirements
• Assists with the analysis of the application portfolios and migration feasibility
• Understand the integration of Cloud infrastructure/network environment with corporate infrastructure / data center environment
• Assist with design of reference Architecture for implementation of codified stacks that meet the needs of the applications
• Continuous building, testing, integration, and deployment of platforms and pipelines
• Provides hands-on technical support to accelerate Cloud learning among peers

• Assist with implementation of standardized offerings
• Assist maintaining Repositories & registries for build/deployment artifacts
• Assist with the creation of automated testing frameworks for applications and infrastructure
• Collaborates with internal service teams for infrastructure and application deployments
• Understands the tools used to perform proactive monitoring of system and server health, analyze trends to prevent incidents
• Assists in implementation of Security Standards, based on organization's Security policy

• Familiarity with Security best practices and industry standards for security

Working Conditions:

• Work Hybrid office schedule
• Some overtime required as special projects arise.
• Minimal Travel

Minimum Requirements:

• • 5 years cloud related experience in AWS and Azure or GCP
  • Demonstrated experience in AWS, Azure & GCP environments
  • Terraform Cloud expertise

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience working with Hashicorp applications, specifically Terraform Cloud Enterprise, Vault and Packer
• Demonstrated experience of working in an Agile/Scrum environment
• Demonstrated experience of Cloud computing technologies
• Demonstrated experience of AWS, Azure and GCP design principles and architectural best practices and industry standards
• Demonstrated experience of the AWS Well Architected Framework and Cloud migration industry standards and best practices
• Prior programming background in at least ONE language: C++, Java, Python, Ruby etc.
• Demonstrated experience of building IaaS and PaaS solutions
• Knowledge of technology infrastructure, network, compute, storage, and virtualization
• Demonstrated experience of Cloud computing technologies and workload transition challenges
• Demonstrated experience with one or more IaaS platforms like Google Compute Engine, Azure, Soft Layer, OpenStack, etc.
• Demonstrated experience with software development life cycle (SDLC).

One or more of the following certifications preferred:

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional
• Azure Solutions Architect
• Azure Devops Engineer
• GCP Cloud Architect
• GCP DevOps Engineer

Additional Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:• Ability to work in an Agile/Scrum environment. Ability to deliver in sprints and work as a team• Ability to multi-task and prioritize deadlines• Ability to operate in cross-functional and multidisciplinary teams

Physical Requirements:

Be able to sit in a workplace environment for required working schedule

Why NRG is a great place to work:• Great company culture!! Voted as a BEST employer by Forbes• A competitive total compensation package, including annual incentive and/or commission• Stock Purchase Plan • Benefits on the first day of employment - Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, and Short Term Disability, Wellness program, etc. • Company-paid life insurance and disability insurance• 401 (k) plan to help save for retirement• Generous PTO plan, plus 8 company holidays, and 3 floating holidays• Numerous discounts, including electricity discounts on NRG brands

The salary range for this role is $118,000 - $171,000. Pay is based on several factors, including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, etc.

If you reside in or intend to work remotely from California, Colorado, New York or Washington State, you may contact [email protected] for compensation information related to this position and other information as required by applicable law. Please include the job title in your request.

NRG Energy is committed to a drug and alcohol free workplace. To the extent permitted by law and any applicable collective bargaining agreement, employees are subject to periodic random drug testing, and post-accident and reasonable suspicion drug and alcohol testing. EOE AA M/F/Protected Veteran Status/Disability

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Level, Title and/or Salary may be adjusted based on the applicant's experience or skills.

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