Cloud Engineer - Contract - W2 Only (No C2C)

The candidate will be responsible for research and development of a Data Retention Application within the Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) team by leveraging industry and big data platform tools.
Candidate is expected to be an expert-level professional providing expert content/professional leadership on complex Cloud Engineering assignments/projects; exercising considerable creativity, foresight, and judgment in conceiving, planning, and delivering initiatives; uses deep professional knowledge and acumen to advise functional leaders; focuses on providing thought leadership within own discipline but works on broader projects, which require understanding of wider business; recognized internally as a subject matter expert. Implements organization's cloud strategy from a technical perspective, including design, planning, integration, maintenance and support of cloud architecture. Supports development and execution of cloud implementation strategy within organization's existing IT infrastructure. May work with stakeholders across organization to evaluate cloud systems and identify appropriate solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Function as a hands-on developer of the ILM-Data Retention team - participating in design, document, develop, deploy, and maintenance of processes using Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
• Build solid and robust technical solutions to support the delivery of Enterprise Data Retention functions on-premise and cloud environments (AWS)
• Ensure adherence to existing strategic direction and architectural strategies
• Work with engineers and developers to design and build scalable, automated CI/CD pipelines with latest open source resources
• Develop automated processes for infrastructure builds, monitoring, deployments and integration.
• Ensure application observability patterns and site reliability practices
• Develop AWS cloud platform using AWS EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, ECS/EKS, RDS, Lambda, Glue, Step Functions and others resources
• DevOps IAC development using Terraform, Jenkins, Ansible, and others

• At least 5 plus years of recent experience in designing, developing, deploying, and supporting enterprise applications in a distributed environment and cloud (AWS)
• Proven track-record of quality software development and delivery in the cloud
• Experience creating benchmark tests, designing for scalability and performance, and designing/integrating solutions
• Drive complex ideas into an implementation plan
• Ability to evaluate the emerging vs. more established technologies
• Ability to perform detailed analysis both technical and business
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Understanding of Health Insurance Business

• Development on AWS cloud platform using AWS EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, ECS/EKS, RDS, Lambda, Airflow, Glue, Step Function and others resources
• IAC development using Terraform, Jenkins, Ansible, and others
• Proficient in procedural, functional and object oriented languages
• Experience with application observability patterns and site reliability practices
• Experience with developing complex applications with relational database systems (RDBMS). SQL Proficiency
• 3+ years software development experience with ETL and Big Data platforms
• Strong automation background: emphasis on CI/CD, TDD
• Required knowledge in using the following technologies:
  • Python, Java, Kotlin, Scala, SQL
  • AWS (EMR/Spark, S3, EC2, Lambda, API Gateway, Airflow, Glue, Athena, Step Functions)
  • CI/CD - GIT, Jenkins, Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift
  • Agile Tools (Rally/Jira)
  • API Frameworks (Flask, Fast API, Spring Boot)

• Background in systems architecture
• Proficient in developing API s and micro services architecture
• Open source savvy, possessing experience using common open source libraries/frameworks

Since 1995, iTech Solutions Inc., has been providing IT Consulting and Direct Hire Services to the Insurance, Financial, Communications, Manufacturing and Government sectors with local offices in Connecticut, Minnesota, Colorado, Massachusetts, Tennessee, North Carolina, and New Jersey / Pennsylvania area.

Our recruiting strategy is simple, if you want to find qualified IT professionals then use IT professionals to find them. So at iTech Solutions, our personnel are all career IT professionals with a wide range of IT experience. We can honestly say our staff understands the technologies, the complexities of finding and selecting the appropriate personnel and the pressures of running successful IT projects.

Employer will not sponsor applicants for any employment visas, at hiring or in the future, including but not limited to H-1B visas. Corp-to-Corp or subcontract personnel will not be considered for this position.