AWS Cloud Engineer

Overview

Remote
Depends on Experience
Contract - Independent
Contract - W2

Skills

AWS CloudFormation
Amazon CloudWatch
Elastic Load Balancing
Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
Zabbix
Amazon EC2
AWS Security
Amazon S3
AWS CloudTrail

Job Details

AWS Cloud Engineer / REMOTE / Long term Contract

Our premium customer, a global Fortune 500 company & a leader in the Food Services Industry is looking for a Sr AWS Cloud Engineer with experience in building Cloud infrastructure, CI/CD Pipelines and provisioning of AWS resources, to achieve a high level of performance and quality in delivering / deploying cloud infrastructure and applications.

Qualifications:

  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Excellent critical thinking and problem solving skills.
  • Positive attitude and solutions oriented thinking.
  • Ability to communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and adapt to change.

Must Have Skills:

  • CloudFormation
  • EC2
  • S3
  • IAM
  • VPC
  • CI/CD
  • SSM
  • SG
  • CloudWatch
  • EBS
  • S3

Responsibilities:

  • Minimum 5 years experience developing infrastructure and platform pipelines for agile delivery to application teams
  • At least 3 years of AWS experience
  • AWS Certifications highly desired
  • Experience with AWS, VPC, AZs, Subnets, Route53, ALB/NLB, WAF, Stacksets, Security Groups, NACLs, EC2, Systems Manager, Azure Devops, Ansible, Jenkins
  • Strong knowledge of Windows and Linux operating systems. RHEL 7.x-9.x, SUSE and Windows Server 2016 and greater.
  • Fundamental networking/distributed computing environment concepts (Routing protocols, DHCP, DNS, TCP/IP)
  • Understanding of Monitoring tools like Splunk, CloudWatch and Zabbix
  • Troubleshooting software and hardware issues including root cause analysis
  • Strong developer mindset with experience developing in CloudFormation, Terraform, Python, YAML, JSON.
  • Strong platform engineering background automating provisioning of resources in AWS.
  • Experiences building infrastructure as code CICD pipelines using CloudFormation, Gold Images, configuration management automation.
  • Engineering automated, repeatable platform solutions on AWS that allow easy to use self-service capabilities for application teams.
  • Strong understanding of security constructs in AWS including LoadBalancers, WAF, SGs, NACLs, Patching, CloudTrail, Guard Duty, etc.
  • Strong background building automated self service capabilities in AWS