What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. AWS Cloud Engineer position at American Unit, Inc?
Sr. AWS Could Engineer
Location : 4 days remote Hybrid - Austin, TX
Contract: Long-Term
Job Description:
Understands business objectives and problems, identifies alternative solutions, performs studies and cost/benefit analysis of alternatives. Analyzes user requirements, procedures, and problems to automate processing or to improve existing computer system: Confers with personnel of organizational units involved to analyze current operational procedures, identify problems, and learn specific input and output requirements, such as forms of data input, how data is to be; summarized, and formats for reports. Writes detailed description of user needs, program functions, and steps required to develop or modify computer program. Reviews computer system capabilities, specifications, and scheduling limitations to determine if requested program or program change is possible within existing system.
We are seeking a candidate with extensive experience in implementing highly available, fault tolerant cloud systems, and who have experience with monitoring tools, containerization and implementing CI/CD pipelines.
The job will require the candidate to be on site one day a week, but this may increase in the future.
We prefer candidates with an active Linked In profile.
Skills Required
- Experience in cloud engineering with at least 10 years focused on core AWS services.
- Experience automating deployments using CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ansible and similar tools.
- Experience with serverless architecture.
- Designing and implementing high availability and fault tolerant systems.
- Experience with monitoring tools, including cloudwatch, Prometheus, Grafana, and splunk.
- Experience in containerization, proficient with ECS, EKS, and/or fargate.
- Strong skills in Python, Bash, or other scripting/programming languages.
- Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills.
- AWS certifications strongly preferred.
- Ability to be adaptable and succeed in an environment where you may be given tasks that have clear goals but require you to find answers, understand the situation, and determine the steps and process to complete.
