AWS infrastructure engineer

AWS infrastructure engineer
Greenwood Village, CO 80111 ( Candidate should be willing to attend a face-to-face interview with the client)
Hire Type: contract

Detailed Job Description:
Strong experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform preferred, CloudFormation acceptable)
Experience with production monitoring, alerting, and incident response at scale
Experience with cost monitoring and optimization in AWS environments
Experience with containerization (Docker) and CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI preferred)
Experience with event-driven architectures and messaging systems (e.g., Kafka, SNS/SQS, EventBridge)
Proficiency with Linux-based operating systems and shell scripting
Experience managing and mentoring engineering teams
Demonstrated ability to make independent technical decisions and triage production issues without escalation
Understanding of data pipeline architectures (batch and streaming) and common failure modes
Understanding of networking fundamentals: DNS, CIDR, NAT, VPC endpoints, firewalls, security groups
Proficiency in Python (or a comparable general-purpose language) for building automation, tooling, and applications
Solid software engineering fundamentals: Git-based workflows, code review, modular and reusable design, dependency management, and writing maintainable, documented code
Experience writing automated tests (unit/integration) for application and infrastructure code, and integrating those tests into CI/CD
Ability to write integration code against REST APIs and cloud SDKs (e.g., AWS SDK / boto3)