AWS Cloud Engineer

Position will be 4 days remote with 1 day (Thursdays) required to be onsite at the location listed above. Program will only accept LOCAL ONLY candidates for this position.

Description:

The Client is requires the services of 1 Systems Analyst 3, hereafter referred to as Candidate(s), who meets the general qualifications of Systems Analyst 3, Applications/Software Development and the specifications outlined in this document for the Client.

All work products resulting from the project shall be considered "works made for hire" and are the property of the Client and may include pre-selection requirements that potential Vendors (and their Candidates) submit to and satisfy criminal background checks as authorized by Texas law. Client will pay no fees for interviews or discussions, which occur during the process of selecting a Candidate(s).

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.

CANDIDATE SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience in cloud engineering with at least 5 years focused on core AWS services Required 8 -years
• Experience automating deployments using CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ansible and similar tools Preferred -5 - years
• Experience with serverless architecture- Preferred 4 - years
• Designing and implementing high availability and fault tolerant systems - Preferred- 4 -years
• Experience with monitoring tools, including cloudwatch, Prometheus, Grafana, and splunk -Preferred 4 -years
• Experience in containerization, proficient with ECS, EKS, and/or fargate -Preferred-4-years
• Strong skills in Python, Bash, or other scripting/programming languages-Preferred-2-years
• Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills -Preferred-1-year
• AWS certifications strongly preferred-Preferred-1-year
• 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. -Preferred-1-year

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