Cloud Engineer Professional

Job#: 3033614

Job Description:

We are hiring Cloud Engineer Professional!

Role: Observability Engineer (DevOps / SRE Focus)

Supporting: Large Financial Services Client

Location: McLean, VA Onsite

Assignment Type: Contract to Hire

Duration: ~ 12 Months (Potential for extension)

Role Overview:

Step into a high-impact engineering role where your work directly improves system performance, reliability, and visibility at scale. You'll partner with a forward-thinking team to enhance observability and monitoring across both application and cloud infrastructure, driving meaningful results across enterprise systems.

This is an ideal opportunity for a hands-on problem solver who wants to build modern observability solutions, work with cutting-edge tools, and make a visible impact. If you're looking to grow your technical expertise while contributing to high-priority initiatives, this is a role worth exploring. Apply today!

Key Responsibilities:

Monitor and optimize application and infrastructure performance

Perform root cause analysis on system alerts, logs, and performance issues

Build and enhance observability frameworks, dashboards, and monitoring solutions

Improve alerting, logging, and system reliability practices

Collaborate with engineering teams on deployments and system enhancements

Support log analysis and performance tuning using observability tools

Contribute to automation and efficiency improvements through scripting

Work across cloud environments and CI/CD pipelines to support system health

Qualifications:

• Education Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or equivalent work experience (required)
• 3+ years of hands-on AWS experience, with strong knowledge of core services (EKS, EC2, S3, Landing Zone) and cloud infrastructure design
• Experience building and automating infrastructure using CloudFormation, CI/CD pipelines, and scripting (Python/Shell)
• Solid understanding of AWS networking, security, and access management (VPC, PrivateLink, Route53, IAM, KMS, SCPs)
• Proficiency with tools such as Jenkins, Git/Bitbucket, Artifactory, ServiceNow, Jira, and Confluence
• Experience supporting cloud-based platforms across systems like Linux, containers, databases, and networking, with a focus on performance, security, and data flow
• Strong communication skills with a self-motivated, solution-oriented mindset; AWS Networking or Bedrock experience is a plus

Compensation and Benefits: The pay rate for this position is between $55.00 and $65.49 per hour. Please note that the final rate may be contingent on experience and other factors.

This employer is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

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Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico. Everforth Apex uses a virtual recruiter as part of the application process. Click for more details.

Everforth Apex Benefits Overview: Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.