AWS Cloud Engineer

Job Title Senior Cloud Engineer

Location Atlanta, GA 30354

Duration: 12 Months

Qualifications:

4+ years of experience in design and implementation of large enterprise public cloud environments

- AWS Certified Professional preferred

- 2+ years of hands-on experience integrating mission critical applications into AWS

- Deep understanding of AWS services (IAM, VPCs, Landing Zone, EC2, ECS, KMS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Systems Manager, S3, RDS, Route53, Lambda, AWS Config, etc.)

- Experience building and securing infrastructure as code using CloudFormation, Ansible, SAM and/or similar tools

- Fluency with one or more scripting/coding languages such as Java, Javascript, REST, JSON, Python, bash

- Experience implementing and leveraging the logging and monitoring solutions

- Experience in cloud native architectures and micro-services design

- Understanding of the shared responsibility model in AWS

- Proven record of accomplishments in major enterprise level projects

- Experience in design of complex distributed systems environments

- Demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges

- Ability to clearly communicate and present to various levels of the organization

- Strong organizational and analytical skills with attention to detail

- Independent and self-motivated and very thorough worker WHAT ELSE?

- Candidate must have excellent communication skills (both written and verbal), demonstrated teamwork skills, be innovative, creative and have strong problem-solving abilities.

Responsibilities:

- Provide technical leadership and design expertise for AWS Foundation integration

- Define standards and patterns for when and how to efficiently leverage AWS services

- Lead automation of AWS integration processes and tasks

- Aid development of Public Cloud Usage Statistics and Reporting dashboards for account owners

- Develop frameworks and tools to enable dev teams to consume authorized AWS services

- Partner with the DevTools team to develop and deploy a CI/CD pipeline leveraging tools such as Gitlab, Maven and Jenkins

- Lead automation development using Ansible or CloudFormation to support acceleration of application delivery into AWS

- Ensure Security-by-Design is a foundational component of every app deployed into AWS

- Ensure enterprise monitoring standards are applied to each AWS app deployment

- Contribute to creation, management and upkeep of Intranet FAQs, User guides and Knowledgebase, standards and build documents for AWS Foundations integration

- Provide leadership in identifying new concepts, ideas, techniques, and technology assistance (best practices, guidelines and design patterns for supported technologies)

- Perform cost benefit analysis to determine best system architecture via software, hardware, internal cloud, externally hosted or other defined model

- Mentor engineering and development staff on public cloud integration design and hygiene, driving quality, consistency, resiliency, security and supportability into designs

- Partner with peer Infrastructure teams to provide enterprise class AWS integration

- Design and maintain standard templates, reference architectures, and design patterns that aid other Cloud Engineers in development of standards-based designs