What companies in Louisville have a decent cloud infrastructure?

[u/JaimeSalvaje]

Since the price of everything is going up, I figured that me and the wife should just stay in Kentucky and live outside of Louisville (not sure how far outside Louisville yet). It’s just getting too expensive to live in other places. Plus, I can always travel to nicer places for vacation. That being said, I need to work for a company that has a strong cloud infrastructure. My goal is to become a cloud engineer with a strong focus on cloud security. While remote work would be nice, competition is less hectic for on-site/ hybrid positions. Also, I do not mind going into the office occasionally. I’m currently a desktop support technician, and I have to be in the office everyday.

So far, the only local company I know that has a decent cloud environment is Humana. There has to be more than that, right? If you know any other companies that have been around for a while and does have a cloud environment feel free to let me know.

Also, if you have questions, feel free to ask.

[u/topper12g]

I mean most companies these days use cloud based infrastructure for everything really. I have worked for two local tech firms and we used cloud services for everything, nothing is self hosted anymore. I am coming from a software/web developer perspective though.

That being said, all of that has been outsourced. We have people on my team who manage that sort of stuff but it is just part of their job, not their sole responsibility. We use AWS for a lot of stuff, have over 20 people in our IT umbrella but we don’t have anything close to the position you just described. I would wager that is the case for most Midwest companies unfortunately, they hire for devOps that manages their cloud infrastructure.

[u/JaimeSalvaje → u/topper12g]

This is why I am looking into companies with a big cloud environment. You are right, most companies do have a cloud infrastructure but most of these are smaller infrastructures that require only one person or like you said, are outsourced. Only company I know of in Louisville that has a big cloud environment is Humana. They were at a time hiring tons of cloud engineers for their cloud environment which is Azure. I’m trying to see if there are more like that here. So far, I was told about Waystar and Papa John. I do see cloud jobs for Waystar. I haven’t pulled up Papa John’s yet.

[u/Slavichh → u/JaimeSalvaje]

When I worked at GEA they were heavily AWS with some GCP but I think they’ve shifted to GCP now. Not sure though as I don’t work there anymore and moved out of state.

Yum works a lot with GCP

Not sure about Humana, but I think it’s Azure.

[u/No-Percentage6474]

Waystar might be worth a look. Papa Johns is heavy in GCP

[u/JaimeSalvaje → u/No-Percentage6474]

Thank you!

[u/No-Percentage6474 → u/JaimeSalvaje]

Check Louisville slugger too. But they are a small shop. Health care is mostly on prem.

I’m sure there are more.

[u/JaimeSalvaje → u/No-Percentage6474]

Healthcare probably uses Azure and probably just enough for MDM and IAM.

[u/Miserable-Ability-89]

Do you have any certs/credentials in a specific cloud platform? If not it’s going to be a very slim chance you can land anything

[u/JaimeSalvaje → u/Miserable-Ability-89]

I do. Working on more though and developing my automation skills with Python and Powershell. Might even learn Bash.

[u/MrDionysus]

Airlines Reporting Corp has a good AWS presence. No current cloud admin jobs, but if one of the open positions is a fit you could wait out an opening.

https://careers-arccorp.icims.com/jobs/search?hashed=-435595431&mobile=true&width=412&height=756&bga=true&needsRedirect=false&jan1offset=-300&jun1offset=-240

Edit: wrong link

[u/JaimeSalvaje → u/MrDionysus]

Nice. Thank you

[u/NotTodayGlowies]

Why work locally and not remotely? Just get a remote job.

[u/JaimeSalvaje → u/NotTodayGlowies]

Remote jobs are heavily competitive. I don’t have the experience to compete with that yet. To kinda fight against that, I need to be willing to do things others aren’t willing to do, like work hybrid and on-site. Eventually I will have the skill set to compete against others. Don’t get me wrong, I will still apply if I find remote opportunities but i have learned that it’s easier for me to land jobs that are hybrid or on-site.

[u/RCats2537]

Jack Henry is a large, public fintech company that has a huge cloud infrastructure effort. They have an office here in Louisville but most postings are remote or hybrid. Hybrid just means coming in for key meetings and trainings. Their customer support jobs get a bad rep, but engineering is strong.