Cloud Platform Engineer

Wabtec Corporation is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions and value-added services for freight and transit rail. Drawing on nearly four centuries of collective experience across Wabtec, GE Transportation and Faiveley Transport, the company has unmatched digital expertise, technological innovation, and world-class manufacturing and services, enabling the digital-rail-and-transit ecosystems. Wabtec is focused on performance that drives progress, creating transportation solutions that move and improve the world. Wabtec has approximately 27,000 employees in facilities throughout the world. Visit the company’s new website at: http://www.WabtecCorp.com.

It’s not just about your career… or your job title…it’s about who you are and the impact you are going to make on the world. Do you want to go into uncharted waters…do things that haven’t been done to make yours and someone else's life better? Wabtec has been doing that for decades and we will continue to do so! Through our people, leadership development, services, technology and scale, Wabtec delivers better outcomes for global customers by speaking the language of industry.

Summary:

It’s not just about your career or your job title. It’s about who you are and the impact you are going to make on the world. Do you want to do things that haven’t been done to make your life and someone else’s life better? Wabtec has been doing that for decades and we will continue to do so! Through our people, leadership development, services, technology and scale. This position will be working hands-on within an AWS Cloud technical domain. You will work within a multi-cloud infrastructure environment on highly complex projects, as a key member of the Platform team across the organization.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Triage, validate, prioritize, and remediate found vulnerabilities based on severity of vulnerabilities according to Wabtec Cyber and industry standards
• Ensure the security and compliance of our AWS environment by partnering with Cyber and application teams to resolve identified findings
• Be a trusted advisor to stakeholders who may need explanation and consultation regarding details around vulnerabilities, prioritization, and remediation plans
• Develop reactive and preventive reporting capabilities to ensure visibility of vulnerabilities across the AWS estate
• Design and build AWS infrastructure for our organization, including implementing and managing resources such as EC2, RDS, and S3
• Stay up to date with the latest developments in AWS and cloud computing
• Demonstrate high level of troubleshooting skills to lead/participate in major incident and problem management activities to ensure customer SLAs are met.
• Participate in the research and evaluation of emerging technology, industry, and market trends to assist in operational support
• Stays up to date with current vulnerabilities related news
• Other duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications_:_ (To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.)

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or "STEM" majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) or equivalent experience
• Minimum 2 years’ experience in an Enterprise scale engineering or relevant discipline

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Deep domain expertise of cloud infrastructure solutions focusing on IaaS, business continuity, disaster recovery, security, operations excellence, and standardization
• Familiarity with security and compliance best practices in the cloud
• Broad hands-on experience across AWS services, with deeper expertise in the following areas/services:
  • IAM administration and policy writing (with a strong understanding of The Principle of Least Privilege)
  • AWS Organizations for a large multi-account corporate environment
  • Managing guardrails for AWS Organization Units with SCP
  • Strong understanding of VPC network concepts such as subnets, routing, name services, security groups, etc.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), configuration management (Chef or Ansible) version control systems (Git), and CICD pipelines (GitLab) for full lifecycle management of AWS infrastructure & guardrails.
• One or more of the following languages: HCL, JSON, Python, Ruby, PowerShell, Bash, Node.js
• Knowledge of PaC (OPA/Rego) is a plus
• Good communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively in a team
• Applies values, business strategy, policies, precedent, and experience to make complex decisions with uncertain consequences
• Challenges conventional thinking and traditional ways of operating and invites stakeholders to identify issues and opportunities

Physical Demands: (The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.)

• Requires daily interaction with Team members on meeting calls or in person
• Requires sitting or standing in cubical and meeting rooms
• Employee is regularly required to look at computer screen

Work Environment: (The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.)

• The employee will normally work in a temperature-controlled office environment, with frequent exposure to electronic office equipment.

Wabtec Corporation is committed to taking on the world’s toughest challenges. In order to fulfill that commitment we rely on a culture of leadership, diversity and inclusiveness. We aim to employ the world’s brightest minds to help us create a limitless source of ideas and opportunities. We believe in hiring talented people of varied backgrounds, experiences and styles…people like you! Wabtec Corporation is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, or protected Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.