Cloud Engineer

Overview

On Site
Depends on Experience
Contract - W2
Contract - 12 Month(s)

Skills

Amazon CloudFront
Amazon EC2
Amazon S3
Firewall
Python

Job Details

Location Charlotte, NC (Onsite)

Required Qualifications:

* 3+ years of IT infrastructure and/or platform engineering experience focused on AWS/Azure.

* Expert in AWS IAM, AWS Organizations, SCP, RCP, and platform controls

* Experience with cloud networking and security including transit gateways, hybrid connectivity (VPN, Direct Connect), security groups, NACLs, and firewall policies.

* Deep hands-on experience with AWS/Azure core services (EC2, EBS, S3, VPC, Direct Connect, Route53, ELB, CloudFront, WAF, or similar).

* Expertise designing and delivering multi-account architectures/Landing Zones. Utilizing concepts such as Account vending, Control Tower, or similar.

* Proven expertise in Terraform Infrastructure-as-Code, or cloud-native automation patterns.

* Strong background in CI/CD tooling (GitLab, Jenkins, CodePipeline, or similar.) and DevOps practices.

* Strong knowledge of observability tooling (CloudWatch, Dynatrace, Grafana, Splunk, or similar.) and SRE methodologies.

* Proficiency in Python boto3 library and AWS SDK programming for automating cloud resource management, infrastructure provisioning, and operational tasks across AWS services.

* Experience with backup and data protection strategies in cloud environments, including automated backup policies and cross-region replication.

* Demonstrated ability to create and maintain technical documentation including architecture diagrams, runbooks, and standard operating procedures for enterprise audiences.

* Exceptional communication and customer management skills with the ability to influence executives, engineers, and business leaders.

Preferred Qualifications

* AWS Professional Certifications: AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional, AWS

Certified DevOps Engineer.

* Experience with ServiceNow, Secrets Management, and Privileged Access Management solutions.

* Knowledge of containerized platforms (EKS, ECS, Kubernetes) and serverless services (Lambda, Step Functions).

* Familiarity with regulatory frameworks and security standards applicable to financial institutions.

* Demonstrated success operating in a large, regulated enterprise, ideally financial services, with deep understanding of compliance and governance requirements (e.g.,

* PCI-DSS, SOX, FFIEC).

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