Advanced Cloud Engineer
Invesco · Atlanta, United States · 25d ago
About Invesco
As one of the world’s leading independent global investment firms, Invesco is dedicated to rethinking possibilities for our clients. By delivering the combined power of our distinctive investment management capabilities, we provide a wide range of investment strategies and vehicles to our clients around the world. If you're looking for challenging work, intelligent colleagues, and exposure across a global footprint, come explore your potential at Invesco.
What’s in it for you?
Our people are at the very core of our success. Invesco employees get more out of life through our comprehensive compensation and benefit offerings including:
Flexible paid time off
Hybrid work schedule
401(K) matching of 100% up to the first 6% with a discretionary supplemental contribution
Health & wellbeing benefits
Parental Leave benefits
Employee stock purchase plan
Job Description
About the Role:
We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Cloud Engineer to join our team and drive the development andstabilityof our cloudplatforms.
Responsibilities of the Role:
Develop Infrastructure as Code to automate infrastructure provisioning, shifting security and compliance left.
Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with stakeholders, includingdevelopers and platform teamsto gather requirements and prioritize features.
Backlog Management: Create, maintain, and prioritize the product backlog, ensuring alignment with customer needs.
Monitoring: Monitor infrastructure performance, user feedback, and key metrics to drive continuous improvement and innovation.
Design a secure Cloud Foundation, repeatable cloud patterns, templates, and/or accelerators to enable faster adoption of cloud services.
Documentation: Ensure comprehensive documentation of cloud compute platform.
Provide technical mentoring and knowledge transfer to other Technology resources.
Build a strong relationship and rapport with key stakeholders, including developers.
Architecture &Design:Reviewing and Designingsolutions that satisfy customer requirements. Recognizepatternsand build reuseableModules to be consumed to speed delivery. Ensurethatmodules we build and supportmeet our security and compliance standards providesflexibility and integration with currentand future technology standards
Cloud Deployment: Designing, deploying, and managing secure, scalable, and high-performance infrastructures within AWS focusing on cloud-native applications.
Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Utilizing automated tools (IaC) rather than manual configuration to deploy, manage, and "shift-left" security, embedding guardrails and compliance directly into templates.
Security Controls: Implementing Identity and Access Management (IAM), encryption, network security controls, and configuring security measures for data in hybrid/public environments.
Compliance & Risk: Enforcing compliance, conducting vulnerability management, and performing penetration testing to protect digital assets.
Optimization: Optimizing performance and managing cloud costs through efficient infrastructure design.
System Administration: Planning and administering operating system capabilities and maintaining cloud infrastructure.
Troubleshooting: Developing and debugging software programs for enhancements, troubleshooting, and patching systems.
Automation: Using scripting (Python, PowerShell, Bash) to automate tasks and improve infrastructure resilience.
Requirements of the Role:
Minimum of2years of experience in AWS cloud technologiesand architecture.
Experience with Microsoft Azure cloud technologies and architecture is preferred but not required, supporting the organization’s expansion to a multi-cloud environment.
4+ yearsexperienceinfrastructureengineering.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field.
Passionate about identifying and solving problems for customers and constantly improving customer experience. Strong analytical and critical thinking skills are a must.
The ability to collaborate in a distributed team environment is critical, as well as leading cross-functional meetings to efficiently drive desirable outcomes.
Expertise and understanding of Agile and DevOps operating model.
Experience in transforming legacy applications to cloud native architectures.
Skills: Goodunderstanding of cloudsolutions,architectureconcepts,automationtechnologies, and market trends. Proficiency in agile methodologies and tools.
Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
Problem-Solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a data-driven approach to decision-making.
Hands-onexperience and proficiency with Terraform Infrastructure as Code
Experience with Bitbucket Pipelines or similar CI/CD toolchain
Proficient in Python
Knowledgein Ansible configuration management (strongly preferred)
Working knowledge of AWS services such as EC2, EKS, ALB/ELB, Security Groups, Firewall Manager, WAF, S3, Lambda, IAM.
Familiarity with comparable Microsoft Azure services, governance, security, and infrastructure automation is a plus.
Works on assignments of moderate scope and complexity where initiative and independent judgment is required to search out appropriate courses of action
Uses concepts and abilities of the skill and the Firm’s internal policies and procedures to complete assignments and solve problems
Makes decisions on routine matters where established policies, procedures and guidelines are available
Impacts quality of own work and the work of others on the Team
Technical Leadership: Provide hands-on technical expertise in designing, implementing, and optimizing AWS infrastructure solutions.
Full Time / Part Time
Full timeWorker Type
EmployeeJob Exempt (Yes / No)
YesWorkplace Model
Pursuant to Invesco’s Workplace Policy, employees are expected to comply with the firm’s most current workplace model, which as of October 1, 2025, includes spending at least four full days each week working in an Invesco office. This reflects our belief that spending time together in the office helps us build stronger relationships, collaborate more easily, and support each other’s growth and development.
The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The job holder may be required to perform other duties as deemed appropriate by their manager from time to time.
Invesco's culture of inclusivity and its commitment to diversity in the workplace are demonstrated through our people practices. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, disability, age, or veteran status. Our equal opportunity employment efforts comply with all applicable U.S. state and federal laws governing non-discrimination in employment.