Cloud Architecture Sr. Engineer

Wings is seeking an extraordinary Software Engineer to focus on further developing our cloud architecture for retail services. The senior position is responsible for enhancing the architecture for real-time application of services associated with retailers (and their branches), offering tools and insights throughout their logistical operations. This highly technical, hands-on role requires broad and deep experience in building and managing applications and infrastructure across cloud services and tools. This position requires practical knowledge of distributed systems, software engineering, operations, security concepts, and cloud technologies. A successful candidate will apply experience in these areas to develop high-performing, scalable, and efficient application patterns for the cloud.

• Experience developing and operating services and infrastructure in public cloud environments (AWS or GCP).
• Able to research, architect and drive complex technical solutions, consisting of multiple technologies and cloud services.
• Proficient with various programming languages such as PHP/Python/Java/Ruby/Go for automation or integration with APIs.
• Experience with CI/CD tools and techniques.
• Experience with containerization and container orchestration services, including kubernetes.
• Solid understanding of centralized configuration management, orchestration and infrastructure as code techniques.
• Working knowledge of network protocols, load balancing technologies, transport protocols and Linux/Unix system internals.
• Expert in writing detailed solution specifications, diagrams, best practices/standards documentation, operating procedures, test plans/test reports, etc.
• Excellent communication skills - must be capable of effectively engaging and leading interactions with cross functional technical and business teams and varying levels of management.

You are passionate about solving new problems, simplifying complex technical challenges, and continuous improvement. In this role, you will partner with passionate teammates to engage with engineers and software developers to architect and solution highly available, secure, efficient cloud services that operate at an enterprise scale. In addition, you’ll be expected to provide technical leadership as an expert in cloud development. This position is a hands-on engineering role where you will develop tools and applications to accelerate cloud development and develop reusable infrastructure configuration code and templates to enable self-service and automated cloud infrastructure deployments.

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or 4+ years of equivalent, hands-on technology experience in large enterprise environments.

Experience with production services in GCP - Google Cloud Platform or AWS - Amazon Web Services.