AWS Cloud Engineer

Overview

On Site
Full Time
Part Time
Accepts corp to corp applications
Contract - Independent
Contract - W2

Skills

Operational Efficiency
Cloud Architecture
Research
Innovation
Failover
Scalability
Orchestration
Collaboration
Thought Leadership
Mentorship
Training
IT Management
Public Speaking
Open Source
Amazon EC2
Amazon RDS
Remote Desktop Services
Amazon S3
Terraform
Bash
Windows PowerShell
Management
Continuous Integration
Continuous Delivery
Jenkins
GitHub
Microsoft Azure
Splunk
Computer Networking
Dragon NaturallySpeaking
DNS
Virtual Private Cloud
NAT
Scripting
Python
Kubernetes
DevOps
Amazon Web Services
Cloud Computing
SANS

Job Details

Hiring: W2 Candidates Only

Visa: Open to any visa type with valid work authorization in the USA

Description

  • Develop and implement a comprehensive AWS cloud strategy, ensuring alignment with business and technology goals.
  • Provide technical leadership and advocacy, championing cloud-native best practices and innovation.
  • Lead and drive architectural decisions, ensuring scalability, security, and operational efficiency.
  • Cloud Architecture & Design
  • Architect secure, scalable, and highly available AWS cloud environments.
  • Develop and maintain enterprise-wide cloud blueprints, patterns, and frameworks to drive consistency.
  • Research and integrate emerging cloud technologies to foster continuous innovation.


Infrastructure as Code & Automation

  • Lead adoption and implementation of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, and Helm.
  • Design and optimize CI/CD pipelines to streamline cloud deployments and operations.
  • Implement self-healing and automated failover mechanisms to enhance resilience and reliability.
  • Kubernetes & Cloud-Native Technologies
  • Manage and optimize Kubernetes clusters (EKS, Helm, IAM) for scalability and security.
  • Define and enforce best practices for containerized applications and orchestration.
  • Improve Kubernetes networking, ingress, and observability solutions to enhance performance.


Collaboration & Thought Leadership

  • Work closely with software developers, system engineers, and security teams to design and implement cloud solutions.
  • Provide mentorship, training, and technical leadership to engineering teams.
  • Drive industry engagement by sharing expertise through public speaking, contributing to open-source projects, and participating in technical advisory boards.



Skills Required:

  • Deep understanding of AWS services, including EC2, EKS, RDS, S3, Lambda, VPC, IAM, Transit Gateway, and CloudFormation.
  • Expertise in Kubernetes (EKS, Helm, Daemon Sets, StatefulSets, Karpenter, external-dns, aws-cni).
  • Strong experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, and automation scripting (Bash, Python, PowerShell).
  • Hands-on experience managing CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps).
  • Proficiency in monitoring and logging tools (DataDog, Splunk, Coralogix, CloudWatch).
  • Strong networking and security knowledge (DNS, VPC, NAT, Security Groups, IAM).
  • Experience designing and developing scalable, production-grade software tools and automation scripts using Python.


Preferred Certifications

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional (or equivalent).
  • Additional certifications in Kubernetes (CKA), AWS Security, or DevOps are a plus.

Education & Work Experience:

  • 10+ years of experience in IT, with at least 5+ years in AWS cloud engineering and architecture.
  • Bachelor's degree in similar field


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