AWS Cloud Engineer

RESPONSIBILITIES AND QUALIFICATIONS

HOW YOU WILL FULFILL YOUR POTENTIAL

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