Application-Cloud Engineer

Application - Cloud Engineer

• Location: Remote
• Eastern, Central and Mountain time zones.
• ship is Required - Ability to pass enhanced background screen (criminal, financial, drug) for Public Trust clearance.

Description:

Client is seeking a skilled and motivated Application Cloud Engineer to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for maintaining cloud-based applications and infrastructure on AWS. You will work closely with development, operations and security teams to ensure the scalability, performance and security of cloud applications.

Responsibilities:

• Provision and manage AWS infrastructure using infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform and CloudFormation
• Monitor and troubleshoot production systems using AWS CloudWatch and other observability tools
• Collaborate with developers to containerize and deploy applications using ECS and Lambda
• Deploy applications across multiple environments (dev, staging, prod) and ensure consistency and stability
• Monitor deployments and system health using CloudWatch and other tools
• Implement rollback strategies and manage version control during deployments
• Troubleshoot and resolve deployment issues and improve pipeline performance and reliability
• Proficient with Python, Bash, YAML/JSON, Node.js, Lambda functions
• Perform daily health checks using AWS CLI or scheduled Lambda scripts to check health and log/report results
• Document deployment processes and infrastructure architecture
• Familiarity with image registries like Amazon ECR and CI/CD pipelines for container deployment
• Collaborate with development team and DevOps teams to ensure applications are stateless and fault-tolerant
• Implement enhancements to containerized environments on ECS, focusing on scalability, performance and observability
• Enhance container orchestration strategies, including auto-scaling, rolling deployments and upgrades
• Support feature branch testing, merge request validation and artifact promotion workflows
• Ensure pipeline security and compliance through automated code scanning and approval gates
• Responsible for remediation of OS-level, container and dependent vulnerabilities
• Orchestrate failover and restoration of ECS/ EKS services, Lambda functions, databases and other infrastructure components
• Test and document regional failover playbooks and recovery runbooks
• Ensure compliance with RTO (Recovery Time Objective) and RPO (Recovery Point Objective) requirements
• Participate in on-call rotations to support 24/7 production systems and respond to incidents as they arise
• Diagnose and resolve production issues related to cloud services, container orchestration, databases and CI/CD pipelines
• Follow and improve incident response playbooks, escalation procedures and communication workflows
• Automate common operational tasks and improve alert accuracy to reduce on-call fatigue
• Log incidents, changes, and operational metrics in tracking systems

Required Qualifications:

• BA/BS in IT, Computer Science or related field (or equivalent work experience may be accepted in lieu of the degree)
• 5+ years of IT experience. 2+ years of hands-on experience with AWS and cloud-based deployment strategies
• Proficient in scripting languages like Python, Bash and Node.js.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools (GibHub, GitLab, Kubernettes, DevOps, CI)
• Knowledge of disaster recovery planning and implementation
• AWS or relevant Cloud certifications (AWS DevOps Engineer, Solutions Architect Associate)
• Solid understanding of cloud architecture principles, autoscaling strategies and load balancing
• Proficient with monitoring, alerting and logging tools
• Strong written and verbal communication skills for technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with container orchestration (Docker, ECS, Kubernetes)
• Knowledge of ITIL practice or incident management frameworks