Cloud Engineer

DBHDS - Cloud Engineer 4 (774629)

Location: Richmond, VA- Remote

Contract

DBHDS - Senior Cloud Engineer
100% Remote **Must adhere to EST Hours during the week

MUST pick up equipment IN PERSON if selected

Expected duration: Current end date is 2/27/26 (based on hrs available on current PO). No extension past this date expected.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

The Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (DBHDS) is seeking a highly skilled Senior Cloud Engineer with advanced expertise in building full-stack applications leveraging AWS/React/NodeJS. A key component of this role is also to build the CI/CD pipelines using services/tools like AWS CodeBuild/CodeDeploy/CodePipeline, AWS CDK, Terraform etc needed to deploy full-stack applications in the cloud environment. This role involves implementing technology solutions that enhance business decision-making and processes across all business units, in alignment with the agency's architectural roadmap and enterprise goals.

The Senior Cloud Engineer will engage in a broad range of tasks related to the development, deployment, and maintenance of cloud-based infrastructure and applications. Responsibilities include enabling collaboration, automation, and efficiency in the development of cloud-based micro frontend applications, thereby facilitating the rapid delivery of high-quality software and services to customers.

This position requires technical proficiency in AWS Cloud, React, TypeScript, NodeJS, Single-spa or similar frameworks, adherence to software engineering best practices, and alignment with the agency s technical direction. Additionally, the role involves collaboration with teams on leveraging the possibilities of common components and technology solutions to ensure successful adoption and implementation.

Additional responsibilities include:

Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business requirements and convert them into actionable solution components aligned with DBHDS s Enterprise Solution architecture patterns, procedures, and policies.

Design and develop scalable, resilient AWS micro frontends and engineering solutions using cloud-native services and technologies.

Develop front-end components and back-end services to create cohesive applications within cloud and hybrid infrastructures.

Build and maintain continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to automate updates and feature deployments.

Manage configuration drift and ensure consistency across different environments, using tools like AWS Code Build/Deploy and AWS CloudFormation.

Create comprehensive solution documentation detailing the design, testing, and production support processes and procedures.

Ensure solution completeness through thorough testing and quality assurance processes, ensuring compliance with security policies and best practices.

Apply DevOps principles to streamline the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and enhance automation.

Deploy solutions to various environments, establish monitoring processes, and ensure ongoing operational stability and application resiliency through system stress testing and feature enhancements.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand change requirements, provide technical expertise, and ensure solutions align with business needs.

Lead the other full stack developers on the team.

Qualifications include:

Expertise in developing AWS full stack applications: Translate business requirements into fully tested applications workflows by designing, implementing, and maintaining technology assets using approved tools and plugins for AWS for NodeJS and react.

Proficiency in Micro-frontends orchestrion: Strong proficiency in cloud platforms, leveraging native cloud services for micro front-end orchestration solution.

API Development: Expertise in designing, developing, and maintaining APIs specifically tailored for cloud environments including AWS API Gateway.

Cloud Networking and Security: Understanding of cloud networking concepts including VPCs, subnets, security groups and cloud security best practices, including identity and access management (IAM). Securing application through role-based authorization, single sign on, and Cognito.

Serverless Computing: Experience with serverless computing concepts, event-driven architecture, and serverless platforms.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Automate the provisioning and management of cloud infrastructure using tools like AWS CloudFormation and Terraform.

Scripting and Automation: Ability to write scripts and automate tasks using scripting languages including NodeJS and Python.

Monitoring and Logging: Experience in setting up alerts, dashboards, and logs for cloud infrastructure and applications.

DevOps Practices: Strong understanding of DevOps practices, including building and optimizing CI/CD pipelines leveraging AWS CodeBuild/Deploy or Terraform.

End-User Training and Support: Provide support and training to end-users for improved solution literacy and tool usage in a cloud ecosystem.

Business Process Automation: Analyze business process life cycles to identify opportunities for automation and simplification, implementing appropriate solutions.

Collaboration and Communication: Collaborate with product and business owners to deliver robust cloud-based solutions, demonstrating excellent communication skills (both written and verbal).

Compliance: Adhere to all policies and procedures of the Agency.

Additional Considerations:

AWS Solution Architect Professional Certification is desired.

Experience in Single-SPA with React JS is required.

Experience building CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodeBuild/CodeDeploy leveraging AWS CDK or Terraform.

Experience building full-stack applications using AWS Lambdas and NodeJS for backend.

Experience building applications leveraging No-SQL database for eg, AWS DynamoDB.