Cloud Engineer Ii (Remote)

At Paychex, our cloud-based infrastructure solutions continue to grow and modernize as we expand our hybrid on-premises and cloud footprint. Candidates will be responsible for troubleshooting, building, configuring, and maintaining cloud technologies and platforms for all major cloud providers. They will create, maintain, and provide a cloud infrastructure framework inheriting business and operational standards, provide technical support during critical and non-critical business hours, and proactively identify and automate resolution to availability and performance failures throughout the environments. This position will expose the candidate to all server based operating systems (Linux, Windows) and cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, and GCP. It will require the development of skills to support, administer, and engineer hybrid on-premises datacenter and cloud solutions. The candidate will be exposed to Continuous Delivery concepts such as Version Control, Continuous Integration, Testing (smoke, sanity, regression), Automation, DevOps pipelines, and Orchestration to deliver and support IT applications at Paychex. Automation technologies including Jenkins, Terraform, Puppet, Ansible, Git, Artifactory, and many more are the means to achieve cloud platform’s goals and objectives. Scripting languages (Bash, Powershell, Ruby, Python) are leveraged to extend features/functionality within our current toolsets and further our “as a service” capabilities. The candidate will leverage the latest technologies that Microsoft, Amazon, and Google offer that are critical to delivering Paychex’s IT cloud infrastructure services. Candidates will participate in the control and maintenance of Paychex’s critical certificate and PKI management platforms. The candidate will partner and collaborate with all facets of Paychex IT including Infrastructure, Security, Networking, Software Developers and Testers, Build and Release Engineers, Solution Leads, Scrum Masters, and many more.