Senior Software Engineer II - IHC481

• Undergraduate degree in an engineering or computer science discipline and/or equivalent experience/certification .
• 6+ years experience in information technology including.
• 5+ years experience in Cloud technologies including Iaas/Paas/Saas deployments on Public Cloud (AWS, AliCloud, Azure).
• 3+ years of experience in developing and implementing FinOps/Cloud Cost Optimization strategies for AWS services.
• 3+ years of experience in OS scripting and automation (e.g. Python, Bash).
• Experience with FinOps/Cloud Cost Management tools and be comfortable with data analysis and reporting.
• Proven analytical skills and experience with cost optimization.
• Experience managing multi-million-dollar accounts.
• Deep understanding with cloud costs and the various alternatives.
• Proven ability to drive efficiencies and cost savings with savings and cost optimization mindset.

• 2+ years of experience in administering and implementing automation in public Cloud infrastructure with Terraform and Ansible following Infrastructure as Code (IaC) concepts.
• 2+ years of experience in container operations (such as Docker, OpenShift Enterprise, GKE, ECS). and orchestration (such as Docker Swarm, Kubernetes)
• Experience in designing, analyzing, and engineering large-scale distributed systems.
• Demonstrated experience delivering technology solutions in a fast-paced, deadline driven enterprise environment.
• Demonstrated experience learning and applying new technologies to solve business needs.
• Excellent problem-solving skills by working independently and through leading outcomes for cross functional teams.

• Operating Systems: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Oracle Linux, Windows, CentOS.
• Storage: Block Storage, Object Storage, Lifecycle Management and Data Replication, Backup & Recovery Best Practices.
• Security: Compliance, Information Assurance, Data Protection using industry-best practices and tooling (Crowdstrike Falcon, Tenable.io, Splunk Phantom, HashiCorp Vault signers, SHA1 and SHA2 certificate management).
• Database: Relational (Oracle, DB2, MySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL, MSSQL Server), non-relational (Cassandra, Couchbase, MongoDB, Document DB).
• Strong knowledge of emerging tools, software, applications, and systems for attaining best-in-class IT across the enterprise.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills for a wide range of audiences including executives, business stakeholders and IT teams
• Understanding of automated ITCM/ITRM best practices.

• Analyzing cloud usage - Monitoring cloud usage patterns, resource utilization, and spending to identify areas for improvement.
• Optimizing costs - Analyzing, optimizing, and implementing cost optimization actions across different cloud services.
• Automating tools - Implementing and managing automated tools to help identify cost trends and anomalies.
• Creating dashboards - Creating financial and usage dashboards.
• Collaborating with teams - Working with finance and business teams to align cloud spending with budgetary constraints.
• Provides technical leadership, oversight, governance and direction for services related to Marriott solution delivery.
• Provides technical expertise to project team for successful project and change implementations.
• Determines customer requirements and works with sourced resources to develop solutions.
• Provides input into lifecycle, improvement, and standardization strategies.
• Develops and generates periodic utilization reports to provide visibility to performance, capacity, availability and SLA management.
• Utilize capacity data to model future state planning with overall strategy and goals.
• Provides and presents status, analysis and reporting to internal stakeholders, Executive Management and Senior Leadership.
• Trains and/or mentors other team members, and peers as appropriate.
• Leads analysis of current environment for deficiencies and provides solutions.
• Develop implementation plans, test plans, and timelines for projects and tasks.
• Responsible for project inception including requirements gathering and architecting, costs and chargeback modeling, infrastructure-as- code development and configuration management.
• Work with Enterprise Architecture to provide technology and cloud native service governance for technology steering committees, with cost and support directives.

• Create and enhance administrative, operational and technical policies and procedures, adopting best practice guidelines, standards and procedures for employees, contractors and vendor engagements.
• Interfaces with stakeholders to establish requirements and formulate priorities for infrastructure projects.
• Leads/assists in configuration management.
• Works in a concerted effort with application development and engineering teams to resolve complex issues.
• Provides oversight, collaboration, provisioning, management and maintenance of technology products and service alternatives that improve the production services environment.
• Responsible for the establishment and continuous development of monitoring and alerting for all production environments.
• Develops internal processes and training to ensure team members have the needed skills and tools to support the production environments and deliver on project commitments.
• Performs complex quantitative and qualitative analyses for operational availability to promote a zero-defect environment.
• Leads/assists operational teams in system updates & upgrades.
• Provides consultation for routine and complex systems development.
• Maintains a proper balance between business and operational risk.
• Facilitates achievement of expected deliverables and obligations of Services Providers.
• Ensures early warning to the business stakeholder executives regarding degraded or missed service levels.
• Coordinates with Plan and Build teams for deployment and production support activities.

• Follows all defined IT standards and processes (i.e. IT Governance, SM&G, Architecture, etc.) and provides input for improvements to the appropriate process owners as needed.
• Execute infrastructure compliance monitors and auditing to ensure user and password security.
• Maintains a proper balance between business and operational risk.
• Follows the defined project management standards and processes.

• Ensures proper coordination with appropriate IT and vendor relations teams.
• Manages Service Providers with a focus on continuous service improvement and service evolution.
• Monitors, manages and leads Service Provider outcomes required to ensure operational availability and a zero-defect production environment.
• Consults with internal Service Management & external Service Providers on performance, business reporting, analytics metrics and business value dashboards.

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