AWS CDK Engineer

AWS CDK Engineer

Location: Dallas, TX- Onsite

RESPONSIBILITIES AND QUALIFICATIONS

• You are a hands-on Cloud engineer who will focus on migrating workloads to the public cloud focusing on AWS
• You have working knowledge of AWS services and design principles
• You are a hands-on Typescript focused developer who will focus on implementing reference patterns in CDK / Typescript for use across the organization.
• You are a cloud enthusiast with a desire to learn how to architect production grade scalable AWS CDK patterns that clients can use across the organization to safely get to production and manage day 2 operations.
• You are passionate about developer experience and bringing new ideas, perspective and customer focused solutions to improve the cloud ecosystem.
• You thrive in a multi-project environment, dealing with different applications and teams to understand their challenges and goals in moving to the public cloud
• You are experienced in architecting and deploying multi-tiered applications which are highly available, resilient, with secure cloud architectures
• You are experienced in designing and building frameworks and utilities that help accelerate the adoption of cloud across the organization
• You proactively manage issues and risks through the delivery lifecycle
• You have exceptional analytical skills, able to apply knowledge and experience in decision-making to arrive at creative and commercial solutions
• You possess a strong desire to learn and contribute solutions and ideas to a broad team
• You are independent and comfortable in a fast paced, ambiguous and often multi-directional work environment
• Manage multiple tasks and use sound judgment when prioritizing
• Collaborate with a globally-distributed cross functional team in building customer-centric products
• Build services to integrate on-premises systems with public cloud providers and software libraries to provide consistent, secure, and ready-to-consume patterns for application development teams using public cloud services
• Collaborate across teams on feature design and problem solving
• Manage the full lifecycle of software components, from requirements through design, testing, development, release and demise
• Partner with colleagues from across Engineering to ensure an outstanding, useable, and unobtrusive experience for development teams building and deploying their applications and infrastructure
• Help to communicate and promote best practices for public cloud application development and infrastructure management across the firm

Basic Qualifications:

• 10 years of relevant professional experience (more experienced professionals are desired) with at least 2+ years of familiarity with AWS services
• Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• Familiarity with disciplines of enterprise software development such as configuration and release management, source code and version controls along with operating considerations such as monitoring
• Experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., GitLab CI/CD, AWS CodePipeline, Bazel, Gradle).
• Proficiency in infrastructure-as-code (IaC) methodologies utilizing AWS CloudFormation templates developed and deployed through AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) with TypeScript implementation.
• Familiarity with AWS services such as ECS Fargate, Lambdas, Step Functions, S3, RDS and MSK.
• Proficiency in scripting and automation using Python, Bash, or similar languages.
• Experience with JavaScript / Typescript / Node
• Proficient using relational and NoSQL database technologies such as DynamoDB, MongoDB and Aurora Postgres
• Experience building transactional systems and strong understanding of software architecture
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Basic understanding of monitoring, tracing and logging tools (e.g., CloudWatch, ELK Stack, Prometheus, Zipkin).
• General knowledge of networking, security, and system administration in cloud environments.
• Skilled in implementing architectural governance
• Ability to establish trusted partnerships with product leads, and executive level stakeholders
• Comfort with agile operating models

Additional Qualifications:

• AWS certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, AWS Solutions Architect Associate).
• Experience with Cloud migrations
• Understanding of Solution Engineering practices
• Fluency in AWS CDK, Typescript and CloudFormation
• Understanding of microservices architecture and serverless computing.
• Basic experience with performance tuning and cost optimization in AWS.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.
• Good communication and documentation skills.

Preferred Soft Skills:

• Willingness to learn and adapt to new tools and technologies.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Proactive mindset with a focus on continuous improvement