AWS Cloud Engineer – Terraform – 100% Remote contract NEW

Location: 100% Remote

Term: 1 to 3 years

Contract Type: Must be W2 only (no c2c, no 1099)

Pay: DOE

We are looking for a Full Stack AWS Engineer with extensive technical breadth of experience in JPasS and cloud technologies. This will be a key position leading the development teams in the cloud strategy integration and execution.

Responsibilities:

• In this role, you will use your technological expertise to integrate highly scalable, flexible, and resilient cloud solutions that address customer needs while reflecting cloud principles and best practices. As a trusted advocate, you will help shape cloud strategies, and support with sizing, scope, and direction for new engagements. You will be a major contributor to innovation and help anchor Proof of Concept activities and guide technological direction for the cloud.
• The primary focus of this role will be to participate as a part of our dynamic and customer-focused team, developing an integration strategy for a client Team based web applications in the cloud. The position will focus on effective use of leading-edge technologies creating a foundation for resilient and effective environments.
• Engage with architects, developers, and technical support teams to achieve success in deployment of Cloud application services within a managed service environment.
• Work with business partners, architects, and other groups to identify technical and functional needs of systems and determine priority of needs.
• Collaborate with performing teams to deliver new capabilities in business applications and/or remediate issues.
• Analyze, define, and document requirements for data, workflow, and logical processes
• Analyze and translate business, information, and technical requirements to create patterns for solutions that integrate across applications, systems, and platforms to achieve business objectives.
• Assess foundational services, integration services, cloud operations and management capabilities.
• Champion, communicate and rationalize approaches with business leaders, organization management and within teams to develop structured outcome of proof of fit/proof of concept.
• Establish the direction for application development approaches, including tools, process, and frameworks.
• Support preparation of documentation including application designs, Assessments, Security Management, Implementation Plans, and post implementation documentation.
• Lead by example, demonstrating high performance in the areas of customer satisfaction, collaboration, teamwork, and reliability.
• Participate in the establishment of local standards, patterns, and practices for cloud integration, while providing input and influence to broader organizational standards and initiatives.
• Spearhead use of innovative new technology and best practices for new product and solution development initiatives.
• Participate in IT strategy development, including environmental analysis, opportunity identification, business cases, business innovation, and portfolio development.

Top 5 Skills:

1. Experience writing IAC code using Terraform to deploy AWS resources
2. Experience using Gitlab to build CI/CD pipelines
3. Experience using AWS services including EC2, IAM, Lambda and KMS, Rt 53
4. Experience writing Unix Shell scripts.
5. Experience with Python – Financial domain / data catalog experience is helpful

Additional Qualifications:

• 5+ years in designing and building data services with all aspects of cloud design, development, and implementation
• 3+ years of experience with full stack development, including application, API, testing, and automation experience using at least one of the following languages (Terraform, JSON, Python)
• 3+ years of experience designing, building, and supporting solutions hosted either on-prem or in the cloud, and experience with migrating data to the cloud
• Must be familiar with Agile methodologies and able to work in an Agile manner
• Must have a very strong application development background
• Experience with using AWS EKS.
• Demonstrates analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience in designing and building large-scale solutions in an enterprise setting in both On-Prem/AWS
• Experience with other AWS data related services including various compute and storage offerings
• Experience with RDS, NOSQL Databases, RDBMS and in-memory databases.
• Experience with data catalogs such as Collibra, Alation, IBM IGC and Informatica is strongly preferred.
• Experience with data structures, networking, performance, and scalability.
• Knowledge of cloud specific solutions related to gateways, streaming services, or file and database migration services
• Hands on experience in one or more programming languages
• Advanced Python for AWS SDK and Terraform

Education:
•Bachelor of Computer Science or equivalent. Graduate level work in computer engineering is a plus

Note:
United States Citizenship required due to Federal Requirements.
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