Senior AWS Cloud Engineer (ONLY W2) ($52 PER HOUR ON W2)

Position: AWS cloud Engineer L3

Location -Jersey City, NJ, USA

Rate: $52/hr on W2

This resource will be part of our Cloud Infrastructure Team supporting our Investment Bank. This role will be key in working with various infrastructure teams (Security, Networking, Database, Unix) to develop, deploy and support applications. Due to the collaborative nature of the role, it will be important that this resource be senior in both DevOps / AWS / technical skills and interpersonal skills. Candidate should have strong communication, teamwork, customer service and leadership skills to partner with broader global technology engineering, information security and line of business teams

• Use Terraform and AWS to deploy highly available, scalable, and secure applications
• Assist in architecting, designing, and implementing cloud-based solutions
• Provide consulting and technical expertise on securely integrating additional cloud services and third-party solutions (such as Salesforce) into their application
• Collaborate with the Cloud Engineering, Cloud Security, and Identity Teams on the administration and engineering of Role-Based Access Controls and processes
• Help design and develop Governance of cloud infrastructure, including both technical controls and cost governance structures
• Create and update support documentation and standards.
• Develop automated methodologies for deployment activities, configuration management, supporting systems and business processes.
• Use Jira to track and manage all work through the development life cycle.
• Proactively analyze and contribute improvements to support our deployment processes
• Investigate and contribute to solving various issues in production environments.
• Drive compliance and security efforts related to systems managed by the team.

Skills / Experience

• Experience in designing and implementing highly resilient, cloud-native and multi-region solutions for public cloud infrastructure
• Strong proficiency with Kubernetes (EKS) and Kafka (MSK) in AWS
• Strong proficiency with High Availability and resiliency in the cloud
• AWS professional and/or specialty certifications, such as Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer
• Experience in implementing Secure Architectures for private and/or public internet facing systems
• Strong understanding of cloud computing concepts, infrastructure, and best practices. Such as Containers, Serverless, Microservices
• Strong understanding of IaC, CI/CD Pipelines, Terraform, Bitbucket, Bamboo etc.
• Strong understanding of networking and internet protocols and distributed systems
• Proficiency in Python, AWS CLI
• Working knowledge of Shared Responsibility models
• Prior experience building out CI/CD pipelines
• Experience working in Agile teams, and related tools (Jira, Confluence, etc)
• Background in software development a plus