Senior Cloud Engineer

Role: Senior Cloud Engineer
Location: Remote
Job Type: Ongoing Contract
Rate: $14,000/month
Type: ship is Required due to Federal Project- Ability to pass enhanced background screen (criminal, financial, drug) for Public Trust clearance.

Description:

We are seeking a detail-oriented and proactive Senior Cloud Engineer to design, implement, and manage observability solutions across AWS-based cloud infrastructure. This role ensures system reliability and visibility through best-in-class monitoring, logging, and alerting practices. You ll collaborate across operations and compliance teams to ensure cloud workloads meet performance, security, regulatory, and cost-efficiency standards.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and implement health checks and probes for AWS infrastructure and applications

• Define and deploy readiness/liveness probes for containers (EKS/ECS)

• Write custom scripts for CloudWatch metrics and alarms

• Implement alerting and remediation automation

• Document monitoring strategies, configurations, and operational playbooks

• Manage observability tools (CloudWatch, Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog)

• Configure thresholds, dashboards, and system metrics

• Perform root cause analysis using observability tools

• Maintain inventory of licensed software (Windows, Oracle, Red Hat, SQL Server)

• Conduct license audits, compliance, and reconciliation

• Monitor and optimize performance of AWS services (EC2, RDS, Lambda, S3, ECS, EKS)

• Recommend and implement resource right-sizing

• Support capacity planning, disaster recovery, and performance benchmarking

• Generate reports on system trends, utilization, and cost-efficiency

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor s degree in IT, Computer Science, or equivalent experience

• 3+ years in cloud infrastructure with strong AWS expertise

• Deep experience with AWS CloudWatch (logs, metrics, Synthetics), Route 53 health checks

• Proficiency in scripting (Python, Bash, or Node.js)

• Familiar with CI/CD tools and container orchestration (GitHub, GitLab, Kubernetes, DevOps pipelines)

• Cloud certifications (e.g., AWS DevOps Engineer, Solutions Architect Associate)

• Experience with software license management and cloud cost optimization

• Strong communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with observability stacks (Grafana, OpenSearch, Datadog)

• Knowledge of FinOps principles and cost-performance optimization
  
  Our benefits package includes:

• Comprehensive medical benefits
• Competitive pay, 401(k)
• Retirement plan
• and much more!
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  About INSPYR Solutions
  Technology is our focus and quality is our commitment. As a national expert in delivering flexible technology and talent solutions, we strategically align industry and technical expertise with our clients business objectives and cultural needs. Our solutions are tailored to each client and include a wide variety of professional services, project, and talent solutions. By always striving for excellence and focusing on the human aspect of our business, we work seamlessly with our talent and clients to match the right solutions to the right opportunities. Learn more about us at inspyrsolutions.com.
  
  INSPYR Solutions provides Equal Employment Opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, INSPYR Solutions complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities.