What are the responsibilities and job description for the AWS Cloud Engineer position at ACL Digital?
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
