AWS Cloud Engineer

Job Title

Duration: 6-12 month contract

Locations: Must be able to onsite once or twice a quarter immediately upon hire in one of the three locations of Tampa, FL, Dallas, Texas, or Jersey City, New Jersey.

Required Skills

• AWS-EC2, S3, RDS, KMS, Lambda, IAM, Kinesis, ECS, AWS CLI, Data pipeline
• Terraform
• IaC

Principle Responsibilities

• Contributes to and supports the corporate enterprise cloud strategy, standards and best practices associated with all aspects of cloud offerings
• Contributes to and supports the corporate adoption of the DevOps methodology and Agile project management
• Provides expert level design and engineering support towards the successful delivery of IT’s cloud project portfolio
• Contribute towards continual service improvement activities related to the delivery of cloud services
• Develop and implement internal systems, processes, and best practices to be used by other teams designed to increase productivity
• Participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment, security, cost effectiveness and high availability in the cloud
• Recommend architecture to meet business requirements
• Design, implement, and test disaster recovery and business continuity architecture
• Create and implement automation for cloud platforms as well as monitoring and alerting purposes
• Ensure all infrastructure components meet proper performance and capacity standards

Experience (Mandatory)

• Minimum of 6 years’ experience in IT platform, storage, and network virtualization architecture or engineering
• Basic working knowledge of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Microsoft Windows Server Operating platform
• Experience with Business Continuity and Disaster Recover design, planning and implementation for virtualized infrastructures
• 4+ years practical experience designing and building solutions utilizing AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, KMS, Lambda, IAM, Kinesis, ECS, AWS CLI, Data pipeline.