AWS Sr. Cloud Engineer

Job Title: AWS Sr. Cloud Engineer
Location: Onsite - Columbus, OH

***Certifications Required and obtained within the last three years****
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional This is for overall AWS knowledge / skills
HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate For Infrastructure Automation skills.




Top Skills
Overall AWS Services 5+ years
Terraform - IAC 3+ years
AWS ECS & EKS 2+ years
Jenkins 2+ years
Spinnaker 2+ years
Splunk 1+ years
Dynatrace 1+ years




Job Description/ Responsibilities
Build and operate container platforms using Amazon ECS/EKS (EC2 and/or Fargate) including clusters, services, task definitions, autoscaling, IAM roles, and ALB/NLB integrations.
Implement modern deployment strategies such as blue/green and controlled rollouts, with strong rollback mechanisms and environment consistency.
Create and govern Terraform modules/patterns for consistent provisioning (VPC, IAM, ECS, logging/monitoring, and shared services), including remote state, versioning, and promotion across environments
Understand the client process and implement CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins (CI) and Spinnaker (CD) to standardize build, test, artifact promotion, and deployments to ECS.
Implement end-to-end observability: APM, metrics, tracing, logging, dashboards, alerts, and SLO-style operational readiness using Dynatrace + Splunk integrated with ECS workloads.
Establish standards for telemetry collection (e.g., sidecar-based collection patterns where applicable) and ensure operations teams can diagnose issues rapidly