Job Title: Senior Software Developer - AWS / Platform
Location: Glendale, CA, USA
Duration: 6 Months + Extension
Bill Rate: $67/hour
Job Type: C2C/1099 Contract
Client: To Be Discussed Later
Work Authorization: US-Citizen, H-1B, OPT-EAD, GC-EAD
Job Summary:
A Senior Software Engineer on the Cloud Account Management (CAM) team is a security-focused cloud engineer responsible for designing, building, and supporting automation and tooling initiatives that further enable secure, compliant, self-service ways of working for both the team and the developer base. In addition, this role will provide operational and technical guidance to Application Development (DevOps) teams that are utilizing the AWS environment at Disney Streaming. This position will report to the Engineering Manager and will interact with other Software Engineers in the Cloud Account Management (CAM) team
What you\'ll be doing
- Write automation tools for your team and other internal teams to self-service, deploy, detect, alert, and mitigate in our AWS environments
- Build on AWS, including hands-on work with IAM, security policies, and cloud-native services
- Champion and execute best practices and security standards for operating in the cloud
- Troubleshoot and implement appropriate IAM permissions for user access and workloads running in AWS
- Provide guidance and recommendations to development teams on service design and deployments
- Own initiatives and contribute to future solution designs and planning
- Be a go-to technical resource on the team, spanning across levels and cross functional teams
- Monitor and work on inbound issues
Qualifications:
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, or equivalent practical experience
- Strong Python development skills, you write production-quality code, not just scripts
- Experience with deployment and CI/CD tools - Terraform, GitHub Actions, Spinnaker, and Jenkins.
- Experience with platform engineering, primarily backend development using Python
- Experience developing APIs and designing database schemas
- Hands-on AWS Security/IAM administration and policy-creation experience for many users and workloads
- Familiarity with Docker and containerization concepts
- Experience with Unix/Linux systems
- Exhibit clear, succinct written and verbal communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders. Taking a practical, collaborative approach when working with engineers.
- Familiarity with operational troubleshooting tools and techniques
Nice to have, but not required
- Experience leveraging AI as a productivity multiplier
- AWS Certifications
- Experience supporting DevOps teams in mid-to-large-sized organizations, especially in multitenant environments
- Familiarity with SSL Certificate management
- Familiarity with general and AWS-specific networking concepts, including VPC constructs, Firewalling, and DNS
Equal Opportunity Employer: We are an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, citizenship/ immigration status, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.
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