AWS Cloud Operations SME

  • Rockville, MD
  • Posted 1 day ago | Updated 20 hours ago

Overview

On Site
Depends on Experience
Contract - W2
Contract - Independent
Contract - 6 Month(s)

Skills

AWS(Kubernetes
EC2
S3
VPC
IAM
Lambda
RDS
CloudFormation
CloudWatch
etc.).
cloud infrastructure management
automation (IaC)
Terraform
Ansible
AWS Certifications

Job Details

Technical Skills:

  • Strong expertise and hands-on experience with AWS (Kubernetes, EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, Lambda, RDS, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, etc.).
  • Solid background in cloud infrastructure management, automation (IaC), and monitoring.
  • Deep troubleshooting skills across compute, network, and storage in AWS.
  • Experience with incident management and problem resolution in cloud environments.
  • Familiarity with tools like CloudWatch, Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, or similar.

Leadership & Soft Skills:

  • Demonstrated experience in functional team leadership task planning, mentoring, and team development.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills to engage effectively with technical and business stakeholders.
  • Ability to guide team members and promote cloud best practices across the organization.
  • Comfortable working under pressure in a fast-paced, critical operations environment.

Other Requirements:

  • Must be available onsite in Rockville, MD from Day 1.
  • Experience in regulated environments (e.g., healthcare, finance) is a plus.
  • AWS Certifications (e.g., AWS SysOps Admin, DevOps Engineer, Solutions Architect) are highly preferred.
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