Skillable is a 100% remote and virtual tech company that’s modernizing the world of training. Come share your professional magic with highly talented, drive and fun colleagues who believe in the power of “skilling.” Experience what a true team focused on doing the right thing feels like!
Our people and talent are what make us great and fun! We work together to create amazing solutions and experiences for our customers and their clients. We utilize our employees’ personal strengths to help our company grow and ensure our team is living their best, authentic life. We don’t just share our appreciation for our team members once a year with a branded mug—it’s shared on a daily basis. Our remote work environment blends the demands of work and life without the added pressure of commuting or feeling guilty about leaving early to visit the dentist.
Come work with us and learn what teamwork and integrity blended with an emphasis on well-being and balance can do for your career!
The Cloud Platform Engineer is responsible for architecting, deploying, and maintaining our cloud platform infrastructure. The primary focus will be within Azure. This includes the design and implementation of cost effective, scalable, and secure architectures for our customer facing software platforms, and the automation and monitoring of those resources.
The Cloud Platform Engineer is responsible for architecting, deploying, and maintaining our cloud platform infrastructure. The primary focus will be within Azure. This includes the design and implementation of cost effective, scalable, and secure architectures for our customer facing software platforms, and the automation and monitoring of those resources. This position reports directly to the Executive Vice President, Platform Infrastructure and Cloud and is a member of the Platform Technology Team.
Essential Job Duties & Responsibilities
Essential job duties refer to those responsibilities that are critical and necessary to do the job and include the following:
- Architect and Manage our Public Cloud Platforms; Azure, AWS, GCP, etc.
- Provide organization and direction of cloud platforms and subscriptions
- Architect solutions adhering to best practices for public cloud platforms
- Design resilient and scalable solutions for high availability
- Design secure cloud platform networking for the prevention of malicious attacks and data loss
- Protect organization against overages and unnecessary spending on cloud
- Architect solutions that accomplish the business objective but are designed to reduce cost
- Routinely monitor for spending overages and adjust architecture design to reduce costs
- Work with the Data Operations team to ensure monitoring and tooling is in place to prevent fraudulent spending
- Protect against security breaches of our cloud platform resources
- Build a defense in depth around our cloud resources
- Ensure all possible security measures are in place to secure our cloud resources
- Communicate status, issues, outages, challenges to the internal company
- Have 5+ years of experience supporting an always on global SaaS application.
- Have 5+ years of experience in DevOps
- Have 5+ years of experience in architecting software solutions using native Azure functionality
- Have deep knowledge of Site Reliability Engineering
- Have deep technical knowledge of scripting and automation as applies to public cloud infrastructure deployment and management
- Have ability to respond to technical issues in a professional and timely manner
- Have ability to communicate effectively with members of a technology team and demonstrate the ability to translate technical and abstract concepts for presentation to business and technical decision makers
- Possess excellent written and oral communication skills
- Possess excellent time management, multitasking, and planning skills
- Have ability to prioritize and organize many tasks and projects
- Familiar with SCRUM and Agile processes
- Detail and project oriented
What’s in it for You? Rewards and Perks
We believe in providing a suite of benefits that ensure our employees know we appreciate them as people first. Skillable wants to be a company that promotes physical, emotional and all around well-being through our benefit offerings! Subject to eligibility requirements, the Company offers comprehensive benefits including:
- Fully remote with a monthly stipend to pay for office services and supplies
- Medical (2 plan options), dental (2 plan options), vision, health savings account with generous employer contributions, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, EAP, group paid life insurance, group paid STD and LTD and voluntary life/AD&D insurance, accident and critical illness options.
- 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, healthy lifestyle reimbursements.
- Open PTO, Paid holidays, bereavement leave, parental leave, caregiver leave and paid FMLA leave.
- Friends and Family Friday to end our standard workweek at 2pm local time; Full company closure during the 4th of July holiday week.
- Access to pet insurance; Access for employees and dependents to Skillable learning opportunities through our product and more!
Physical Demands
- Ability to frequently remain in a stationary position.
- Ability to frequently communicate and exchange accurate information.
- Ability to constantly operate equipment such as telephone, computers, etc.
- Ability to move equipment in excess of 25 lbs.
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job function assigned satisfactorily. The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Nothing in this job description restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.
Skillable can only hire potential candidates with a primary residence in the following States: AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, ID, IN, KY, ME, MI, MO, NC, ND, NY, OH, OK, TN, TX, UT, WA, WI