AWS Cloud Engineer

Duration:

6 months

Location:

Remote

We are seeking an experienced

AWS Cloud Engineer to support a cloud maturity initiative focused on improving, automating, and optimizing AWS cloud infrastructure and container environments.

Key Responsibilities

- Design, deploy, and manage

AWS container orchestration environments

, including Amazon EKS and Kubernetes.

- Manage Docker containers, container images, registries, and application deployments.

- Implement and maintain

CI/CD pipelines for automated builds, testing, and deployments.

- Build and manage pipelines using

AWS CodePipeline and/or GitLab Runner

.

- Implement Kubernetes autoscaling, load balancing, resource optimization, and performance improvements.

- Develop

Shell and Python scripts

, AWS Lambda functions, and CloudFormation templates to automate AWS resource provisioning.

- Automate the creation and management of AWS accounts, networking services, and firewall rules.

- Implement monitoring and logging solutions using tools such as

Prometheus and Grafana

.

- Support AWS networking services including VPC, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect Gateway, Route 53, API Gateway, and Gateway Load Balancer.

- Troubleshoot and optimize production cloud and container environments.

- Maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams, procedures, and runbooks.

- Provide project updates, technical briefings,



and communicate risks and challenges to project leadership.

Must-Have Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

- 3+ years of hands-on AWS Cloud Engineer or DevOps experience

.

- Experience working with

AWS in a multi-account production setting

.

- Strong hands-on experience with

Kubernetes and Amazon EKS

.

- Solid experience with

Docker and containerized application environments.

- Experience with

ECS and/or Fargate

.

- Solid understanding of

CI/CD and DevOps practices

.

- Experience with

AWS CodePipeline, GitLab Runner, and/or Ansible

.

- Hands-on experience developing

AWS Lambda functions.

- Experience with

CloudFormation/IaC

.

- Strong scripting skills using

Python and Shell

.

- Knowledge of AWS networking, including

VPC, Transit Gateway, Route 53, Direct Connect Gateway, API Gateway, and Gateway Load Balancer

.

- Experience with container monitoring and observability tools such as

Prometheus and Grafana

.

- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills.

Ideal Candidate The ideal candidate is a hands-on

AWS Cloud/DevOps Engineer with strong

EKS/Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, CloudFormation, scripting, AWS networking, and production cloud automation experience.

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