Sr. Cloud Engineer - AWS & Security

Sr. Cloud Engineer – AWS & Security

Location: Princeton, NJ (Hybrid 2 days) Experience level – 10+ years

Rate: $70/hr C2C

There will be 2 client interviews and, at least one interview is preferred to be in person with client in Princeton, NJ

The Senior Cloud Engineer will work closely with the other Cloud engineers and Developers in the Cloud engineering team to improve Kubernetes components and applications across multiple clusters and troubleshoot issues as needed.

The Senior Cloud Engineer will play a consultative role and collaborate with the Security and Development teams.

Responsibilities:

• Administrate our Kubernetes EKS clusters and their lifecycle, in order to guarantee a high degree of reliability, security, scalability, and confidence at any given time, provide support, improve and implement Kubernetes internal components and applications on top of multiple EKS clusters and troubleshoot and triage issues as they arise.
• Work closely with various teams across the organization, including the security team, development team, and operations team for any AWS infrastructure request.
• Be able to excel with minimal technical supervision, embrace reliability constraints, be proactive, contribute improvements to the platform.
• Encourage best practice policies, ability to adapt to various technologies and be willing to get involved with the Kubernetes and AWS community as needed.
• Assist in troubleshooting EC2, VPC networking, DNS and storage issues and make recommendations for cost saving options and growth.
• Participate in a shared on-call rotation.
• Lead and mentor junior team members.

Basic Qualifications:

• 5 - 7+ Years’ experience in infrastructure design/implementation that directly aligns with the specific responsibilities for this position. (Required).
• 2+ years administering a EKS Kubernetes cluster in a production environment
• Strong experience with identifying and remediating Kubernetes vulnerabilities.
• Experience with maintenance such as Kubernetes patches and upgrades.
• Experience managing multiple Kubernetes EKS clusters in a production environment
• Experience in AI technologies such as AWS bedrock, Azure OpenAI and GCP Vertex.
• Strong Implementation and architecture experience in AWS services (e.g. EC2, ECS, ELB, RDS, EFS, EBS, Route53, VPC, IAM, CloudFront, CloudWatch, Lambda, S3.
• Expertise hands on experience and knowledge of various AWS cloud on prem datacenter services.
• Strong experience in container platform infrastructure in AWS (EKS, ECS, Fargate)
• Clear understanding of container technologies and the tools/challenges around them.
• Ability to code/script in Python/Shell/PowerShell Language.
• Senior level experience managing and administering Linux/Windows based systems.
• Extensive AWS CloudFormation knowledge (YAML and/or JSON).
• Systems monitoring experience (Prometheus, Grafana preferred).
• Experience working with GitHub and supporting CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience delivering projects via Agile methodologies
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• AWS Certified Solution Architect – Associate
• GCP Or Azure Cloud engineer certification.