SENIOR SYSTEMS ENGINEER - CLOUD FINOPS AND AUTOMATION
Company: Marriott
Location: Hartford
Posted on: September 26, 2024
Job Description:
Job Number 24124363Job Category Information TechnologyLocation
Marriott International HQ, 7750 Wisconsin Avenue, Bethesda,
Maryland, United StatesSchedule Full-TimeLocated Remotely?
YRelocation? NPosition Type ManagementJOB SUMMARYThe Sr. Systems
Engineer - Cloud FinOps & Automation will be a technical expert
responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining
cost-efficient cloud systems and applications that support core
customer facing and enterprise facing products and platforms. In
this role, the SSE will work closely with the Application,
Infrastructure & Network teams to analyze the cloud infrastructure
and identify opportunities for cost optimization. The role will
help in identifying cost optimization opportunities by reviewing
usage patterns, billing data, and cloud service utilization and
will be responsible for developing and implementing cost
optimization strategies to reduce the cost of cloud services while
maintaining service quality and performance. In this role the SSE
will collaborate with other technical teams, such as software
engineering, data engineering, EA and DevOps, to ensure that
cloud-based applications are designed with cost efficiency in mind.
The role will implement an operating model of innovative cost
savings and optimization solutions for Marriott across public cloud
providers.CANDIDATE PROFILEEducation and ExperienceRequired:
- Undergraduate degree in an engineering or computer science
discipline and/or equivalent experience/certification
- 7+ 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 mindsetPreferred:
- 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.
- Experience across many of the following platforms:
- 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,
DocumentDB).
- 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 practicesCORE WORK
ACTIVITIES
- Key responsibilities include:
- 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 directivesDelivering Technology
- 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 activitiesIT Governance
- 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
processesService Provider Management
- 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 dashboardsCalifornia Applicants Only : The salary
range for this position is $96,038 to $209,169 annually.Colorado
Applicants Only: The salary range for this position is $96,038 to
$190,154 annually.Hawaii Applicants Only: The salary range for this
position is $116,205 to $209,169 annually.New York Applicants Only:
The salary range for this position is $96,038 to $209,169
annually.Washington, D.C. Applicants Only: The salary range for
this position is $105,641 to $190,154 annually.Washington
Applicants Only: The salary range for this position is $96,038 to
$209,169 annually. In addition to the annual salary, the position
will be eligible to receive an annual bonus. Employees will accrue
0.04616 PTO balance for every hour worked and eligible to receive
minimum of 7 holidays annually.All locations offer coverage for
medical, dental, vision, health care flexible spending account,
dependent care flexible spending account, life insurance,
disability insurance, accident insurance, adoption expense
reimbursements, paid parental leave, educational assistance, 401(k)
plan, stock purchase plan, discounts at Marriott properties,
commuter benefits, employee assistance plan, and childcare
discounts. Benefits are subject to terms and conditions, which may
include rules regarding eligibility, enrollment, waiting period,
contribution, benefit limits, election changes, benefit exclusions,
and others.Marriott HQ is committed to a hybrid work environment
that enables associates to Be connected. Headquarters-based
positions are considered hybrid, for candidates within a commuting
distance to Bethesda, MD; candidates outside of commuting distance
to Bethesda, MD will be considered for Remote positions.The
application deadline for this position is 70 days after the date of
this posting, July 16, 2024.Marriott International is an equal
opportunity employer. We believe in hiring a diverse workforce and
sustaining an inclusive, people-first culture. We are committed to
non-discrimination on any protected basis, such as disability and
veteran status, or any other basis covered under applicable
law.Marriott International is the world's largest hotel company,
with more brands, more hotels and more opportunities for associates
to grow and succeed. Be where you can do your best work,--- begin
your purpose, belong to an amazing global--- team, and become the
best version of you.
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