Our client is hiring a AWS Cloud Engineer (DevOps) on a hybrid basis in Manassas, VA for $68/hour (W2).

Job Description
About the Role:
Cloud Engineering (contractor position) will work within the Cloud Center of Enablement team to design, implement, and manage the cloud computing framework that enables cloud solutions at client. This role will require the candidate to understand our business needs and provide effective solutions while following DevOps practices.
Responsibilities:

• Define and implement secure, compliant, scalable versions of cloud resources (e.g. EC2, Kubernetes clusters, Databases, Load-balancers, Backup, etc.) that are exposed as internal products or network based services
• Make cloud products available for self service via Infra-as-code using AWS CDK, Terraform and/or CloudFormation
• Standardize and automate creation of application workload environments and DevOps tooling
• Help app teams design secure and scalable infrastructure using approved cloud products, and support app DevOps teams from onboarding to Launch
• Deploy and manage central services using DevOps and Infra-as-code
• Build and maintain operational tools for deployment, monitoring, and analysis of AWS infrastructure and central services
• Implement automation for Cloud cost management, analysis and reporting

Technical skills & knowledge:

• Experience building and maintaining infrastructure using Infra-as-code tools such as AWS CDK, Terraform or CloudFormation
• Experience building automation using programming languages such as Python, Java or Node.js
• Working with Git/Bitbucket to manage code, and Jenkins or other CICD platforms to orchestrate
• Ability to learn/use a wide variety of open-source technologies and tools
• Collaborative work within a team as well as self-driven, in Agile environment

Desirable technical skills & knowledge:

• Deploying foundational AWS services (VPC, Subnet, Routes, EC2, Lambda, Step Functions, EKS, ELB, S3, EBS, RDS(Aurora), DynamoDB, CloudWatch, Cloudtrail etc) as IaC
• Deploying and managing infrastructure AWS Infrastructure using Terraform or CloudFormation through CI/CD pipelines
• Basic understanding of how to secure AWS environments and meet compliance requirements
• Managing Immutable Infra setups with EC2 is a plus
• Experience with AWS Landing Zone and underlying technology is a major advantage

Domains:

• Infrastructure
• Automation
• DevOps
• Cloud

Requirements:

• AWS Cloud (4-5 years)
• Cloud Security (4-5 years)
• IaaS / PaaS (4-5 years)
• Serverless Container deployment (4-5 years)
• Python / Java (4-5 years)
• Scripting / Automtion (4-5 years)