Senior Cloud Engineer AWS

Overview

Hybrid
Depends on Experience
Contract - W2
Contract - Independent
Contract - 9 Month(s)
No Travel Required

Skills

Amazon EC2
Amazon Lambda
Amazon Web Services
Application Lifecycle Management
Cloud Computing
Collaboration
Computer Networking
Continuous Delivery
Continuous Integration
Continuous Integration and Development
DNS
Docker
Dragon NaturallySpeaking
Good Clinical Practice
Google Cloud Platform
Grafana
Innovation
Java
Jenkins
Kubernetes
Linux
Microsoft Azure
Open Source
Python
Routers
Splunk
Step-Functions
Terraform

Job Details

Job Title: Sr. Cloud Engineer

Location: Westlake, TX or Merrimack NH (Hybrid)

Duration: Long term Contract

The role/skills required:

The associate will be joining the Observability Platform team and will be looking for strong Programming skills within Python, GO could be acceptable as well but most of work is in Python. They will also need strong AWS skills, good background in Kubernetes, and Jenkins/CI/CD skills.

Nice to have:

Datadog

As a Senior Cloud Engineer in our Cloud Platforms area, you will work within a diverse team comprised of passionate technologists who believe in the power of innovation and constant collaboration. We believe that small, empowered, self-motivated teams can achieve outstanding things. We are passionate about opensource contributions, sharing our expertise and knowledge with the engineering community while adopting a continuous learning approach supported by a dedicated learning day each week.

Working on the Observability Platform Team, which supports the Core & Common initiative of building, deploying, and supporting our new OTel observability platform focused on metrics and traces. This role contributes to strategic platform enhancements, including platform security and resiliency and new features.

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

  • 5+ years of hands-on experience deploying and/or supporting highly distributed multi-tiered systems at scale.
  • Hands-on experience in 2 or more languages (Python, Java, Go etc.).
  • Hands-on experience designing and building scalable and resilient applications in the cloud.
  • Good knowledge on networking concepts such as DNS, Load Balancers, routers etc.
  • Experience in troubleshooting Linux based systems
  • Experience on containerization technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes etc.
  • Experience in deploying applications in AWS platforms such as EC2 & EKS or equivalent platforms from any other cloud provider such as Google Cloud Platform, Azure etc
  • Experience in building serverless applications using AWS Lambda, Step functions etc
  • Experience delivering software using engineering best practices and principles.
  • Extensive knowledge of infrastructure as code (Terraform, CFT, CDK, etc.).
  • Hands-on experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery/deployment using ALM tools such as Jenkins.
  • Passion for new technologies and cloud trends.

Bonus skills

Cloud Certifications in AWS.

Experience working on Logging, Metrics, and Tracing frameworks and understanding of Logging and Metrics Data Models.

Experience operating and/or using modern observability tools at scale (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Jaeger, Open Telemetry, fluentD, fluentBit, Open Tracing, Datadog, Splunk, etc )

Hands-on experience with Open Telemetry (OTEL) or any opensource implementations.

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