AWS Cloud Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Ensure the efficiency, reliability, and scalability of essential platforms that facilitate data-driven decision-making.

• Deliver day-to-day customer application support.

• Maintain infrastructure and supervise systems.

• Address incidents and implement automation to enhance operational efficiency.

• Collaborate with data engineers, analysts, development, security, and infrastructure teams.

• Design and establish AWS cloud infrastructure utilizing Terraform and GitLab CI/CD pipelines.

• Advise ADTs on cloud solution patterns, deployment strategies, and architectural decisions.

• Take ownership of automation from end-to-end, including IaC authorship, pipeline design, and production operations.

• Participate in an on-call rotation while contributing to observability and monitoring practices.

• Provide technical assistance and guidance to AWS and managed service users.

• Design, implement, and maintain secure, scalable, and highly available AWS cloud infrastructure.

• Monitor AWS environments and troubleshoot performance, availability, and other incidents.

• Keep configuration documentation, diagrams, and SOPs updated for all environments.

• Execute backups, scheduled upgrades, and maintenance during designated windows.

• Monitor security vulnerabilities and carry out ad-hoc upgrades and maintenance.

• Support audits by supplying logs, reports, and system configurations.

• Manage and support AWS IAM, including roles, policies, permissions, and access controls.

⛳️ Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship is required.

• Ability to obtain and maintain the necessary Public Trust level clearance.

• Must be willing to undergo a pre-employment credit check as mandated by the Customer.

• Bachelor's Degree with 8 years of experience; a Master's Degree with 6 years of experience; or a High School Diploma or equivalent with 12 years of experience.

• Extensive, hands-on knowledge of AWS architecture, networking, security, serverless/microservice architectures, and containerization.

• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC), particularly advanced Terraform skills.

• Demonstrated experience in designing and maintaining GitLab CI/CD pipelines, including reusable/shared components for enterprise-scale delivery.

• Practical experience in monitoring, analyzing, and troubleshooting SaaS application logs.

• Strong scripting capabilities in Python and Bash.

• Proficient in configuration management, observability (CloudWatch, Grafana), reliability, and disaster recovery practices.

• Skilled in cloud engineering processes using automation tools like Terraform, Python, and GitLab CI for AWS workloads.

• Strong proficiency in Git, including familiarity with common branching/release strategies (GitFlow, etc.).

• Experience with incident management, root cause analysis, and addressing high-priority incidents in large, multi-tenant environments.

• Experience working in an Agile environment.

• Ansible experience is a plus.

• Familiarity with CloudFormation, PowerShell, JavaScript/Node.js, or other scripting languages is preferred.

• Exceptional communication, analytical skills, and technical knowledge across the client environment.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical insurance.

• Dental insurance.

• Vision insurance.

• Life insurance.

• Health savings account.

• Short-term disability.

• Long-term disability.

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

• Parental leave.

• 401(k).

• Paid time off (PTO) for vacation.

• Company paid holidays.

• Eligible employees may receive overtime.

• Eligible employees may receive shift differential.

• Eligible employees may receive a discretionary bonus.