Principal AWS Cloud Engineer #951486

Principal Cloud Engineer (AWS)

Hybrid in Addison, IL (easy commute to the intersection of I355 and Rt.20)

Contract to perm hire or possible straight to permanent hire

No subcontractors, please. This employer cannot sponsor visas for this role

For a well-known eCommerce/distribution firm located in Chicago's Western Suburbs, this role is a long-term career move for an individual who will never need visa sponsorship and has senior-level experience in AWS Cloud engineering involving Kubernetes and Grafana. Please apply for more details.

Skills

• 7 years of relevant industry experience
• Proficiency in one or more major cloud platforms, Preferably AWS
• Containerization technologies: Kubernetes (K8S, K3S), container registries and artifact tools
• Administration of Kubernetes clusters
• Configuration management, Secrets Management (Consul, Vault, KMS systems, Consul Template)
• Experience with cloud monitoring and logging tools like AWS CloudWatch, EFK/ELK Stack, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Dynatrace, Datadog, New Relic etc
• Operational concerns: Disaster Recovery, Disaster Resilience, Monitoring, Alerting
• Understanding of microservices principles and best practices for designing scalable and modular architectures including API Gateway technologies and best practices
• Understanding of event-driven architecture principles and best practices and tooling
• Proficient in cloud networking concepts, including VPCs, subnets, routing, load balancing, Firewalling (including WAF), and security groups.
• Strong knowledge of cloud security best practices, including identity and access management (IAM), encryption, and security group configurations, SAST & DAST tooling (CrowdStrike, Qwiet.AI, Prisma Cloud etc)
• Knowledge of diagramming tools and methodologies (e.g. Miro, Diagrams.net, Figjam, Mermaid.JS etc)
• Educated to Degree level in Computer Science or equivalent

Responsibilities

• Help with and implement our Cloud Architectural Artifacts
• Network, Firewall, Routing
• Implementation level architecture for scalable IaC strategies (e.g. modularization etc)
• Platform Vs Service level scaling practices
• Contribute to and support our org wide Architecture Decision Records
• Support the delivery and maintenance of our Cloud Policies, Procedures and Standards
• Disaster Resiliency, Recovery and Availability Planning
• IaC tooling, use and quality gating
• Cloud technology stack/services consultancy and selection in accordance to technical and quality requirements (scalability, performance, security, compliance)
• Cloud infrastructure TCO optimization and focus
• Capacity planning by continuously monitoring utilized resources and demand trends
• Evangelize for our needs with cloud service providers/vendors to ensure smooth operations and support.
• Lead and ensure compliance with organizational security practices and auditing
• Ensure maximal uptime of our infrastructure and services through monitoring, alerting, golden signals and on-call support
• Knowledge transfer, training, mentoring of cloud practices across the engineering org

Dexian is an Equal Opportunity Employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, or veteran status.