Overview
$$60-70/Hour C2C
Accepts corp to corp applications
Contract - Independent
Contract - W2
Contract - Term Contract
Skills
DMV
Leadership
Scalability
Management
Cloud Computing
Migration
Microservices
New Relic
AppDynamics
Reliability Engineering
Apache Velocity
Collaboration
Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Amazon SageMaker
Terraform
Ansible
DevOps
Jenkins
Bitbucket
Git
Continuous Integration
Continuous Delivery
Orchestration
Docker
Kubernetes
Python
Java
Groovy
Amazon Web Services
Amazon EC2
Virtual Private Cloud
Amazon S3
Amazon RDS
Remote Desktop Services
Job Details
Role: Lead AWS Cloud Systems Engineer
Location: DMV Area (DC, Maryland, Virginia)
Hybrid: Hybrid, 1 day/week onsite
Type: Long-term Contract | Open to Any Visa
Overview:
Client is seeking multiple Lead AWS Cloud Systems Engineers to support and expand its AWS infrastructure, automation, and platform engineering initiatives. Candidates must bring a minimum of 10 years of IT experience, including 5+ years in AWS Cloud engineering, strong leadership, and hands-on expertise with IaC, DevOps, and containerization. These are site reliability-focused roles with an emphasis on security, scalability, and automation.
Common Responsibilities:
- Design, implement, and manage secure, scalable AWS platforms
- Lead enterprise-wide cloud transformation/migration
- Leverage IaC tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible
- Administer AWS core services: VPC, EC2, S3, IAM, Lambda, CloudWatch, etc.
- Guide microservices deployment using containers (Kubernetes, EKS) and service mesh
- Build observability using tools like New Relic, Datadog, AppDynamics
- Apply SRE principles to improve system reliability and velocity
- Collaborate with stakeholders across DevOps, architecture, and security
- Stay updated with emerging AWS and GenAI technologies (SageMaker, Bedrock, Kendra)
Technical Skills Required:
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Ansible
- DevOps Toolchain: Jenkins, Bitbucket, Artifactory, Git, CI/CD pipelines
- Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, EKS, ECS
- Programming: Python (preferred), Java, Go, Groovy
- AWS Services: EC2, Lambda, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, S3, EKS, CloudTrail, RDS
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