**About Us**:At **SparkMeter** our mission is to electrify everything and everyone. We help utilities and governmentsmake the transition to electrification while providing affordable, reliable, clean power.We don't care where in the world you are or how big or small you are. We are particularly interested in solving these problems in underserved markets that are served by outdated incumbents.SparkMeter is searching for a** Cloud Engineer **to lead the design and maintenance of all **AWS cloud infrastructure** used to support our products. This role will work closely with all areas of engineering to architect, develop, deploy and support cloud-based infrastructure, and to devise roadmaps for evolving our cloud footprint to support our product roadmaps.This is a **100% remote position**; however we are **headquartered in Washington D.C**. and have an amazing downtown office that you are welcome to use. The team will also meet there periodically (likely quarterly), so** some limited travel will be required.****What you will be doing**:- Be the AWS expert, develop and maintain a deep understanding of AWS capabilities and how to best leverage AWS technology to build high performance, scalable and secure infrastructure.- Lead the specification, design and deployment of managed and containerized services needed to support new products.- Work closely with tech leads and product managers to understand requirements for performance, scalability and security.- Design, implement and maintain a virtual cloud network topology.- Develop and manage infrastructure as code solutions needed to automate deployment and maintenance.- Schedule and perform upgrades to services and components.- Manage and track cost and billing, and devise strategies for optimizing use of AWS services.- Work as part of an agile software development team, attend sprint planning, backlog grooming sessions and daily stand-ups.- Provide technical direction, mentoring and delegating tasks to team members.**It can be a perfect match if you have**:- 3+ years' experience supporting a large-scale AWS cloud implementation- 3+ experience architecting cloud environments to support software products- Experience deploying and managing the following AWS managed services: EC2, ELB, RDS, S3, ECS (Elastic Container Service), Elastic Search, MSK (Kafka), ElastiCache Redis, Route53, VPC, API Gateway,Lambda functions, SNS, CloudWatch- Experience with any type of containerization and orchestration technology- Experience with Python or any programming language**It can be a plus if you have**:- Container orchestration using the following tools from HashiCorp (or similar): Nomad, Consul, and Vault- Infrastructure as code using the following tools from HashiCorp (or similar): Terraform and Packer- Linux system administration and shell scripting- Experience working in the utility or energy industry- Experience designing, building and supporting infrastructure to support an IOT platform and products- Any big data experience**What we offer**:- You will work with customers and team members all over the world- You will have the ability to select and implement new technologies- Competitive salary- You can work remotely, with the option to travel to our office in DC for team events- PTO- And more!
