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Senior Engineer (AWS)

Raise
Houston, TX Temporary
POSTED ON 4/26/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/20/2025

Job Description

We’re Hiring!

Our key client is hiring and looking to add a Senior Engineer (AWS) to their team. Please check the description below and reach out to us for more details if you are interested.

Pay Rate : $64.28 / hour on W2

Work Type : Hybrid – 4 days In-Office | 1 day Remote

Location : Houston, TX 77002

Work Schedule : 8 : 00 AM – 5 : 00 PM

Duration : 12-month contract (with possible extension)

Key Responsibilities :

  • Contributes strategic technology vision and integrates a broad range of ideas regarding applications and software development.
  • Presents, communicates, and articulates technical processes effectively to all levels within the organization (including technical and non-technical audiences, Senior Leadership, VPs and the C-level executives).
  • Undertakes complex applications development and maintenance projects involving multiple disciplines and multiple facets of the business.
  • Implements software engineering best practices.
  • Develops enterprise-level information technology solutions by analyzing, coding, testing, and
  • implementing new and by modifying existing software applications.
  • Leads design / coding sessions, develops and maintains solutions.
  • Articulates design and resolves technical / design conflicts as they occur.
  • Coordinates with business analysts and users to determine requirements.
  • Performs analysis of system requirements and existing business processes.
  • Works with customers and technical staff to resolve problems with software and responds to suggestions for improvements and enhancements.
  • Reviews systems under development and related documentation.
  • Participate in the development of software.
  • Should have a Product mindset and leads advanced systems planning, scheduling and implementation.

Qualifications :

  • Required : Bachelor's Degree (accredited) in Computer Science, MIS, or similar area of study in lieu of degree.
  • Required : High School Diploma or GED (accredited) and 4 years of relevant work experience.
  • Required : 10 years of previous experience required (in addition to education requirement).
  • Must-Haves :

  • All Cloud Technologies : AWS Services such as Lambda, IAM, S3, EFS, SQS, SNS, API Gateway, CLI, Kinesis, Glue, Elasticache (Redis), CloudWatch, CloudFormation, EC2
  • Experience working with Databases : Oracle, SQL, Server, PostgreSQL and NoSQL databases such as Cassandra and Dynamo DB
  • Containers : Docker / Kubernetes / ECS
  • Integrations : REST, API, Synch, Asynch, Realtime, Batch
  • Network : VPC, Subnet, SG, IP (CIDR)
  • MUST Have an understanding of network infrastructure as this is a Senior role!
  • Security : WAF, Encryption, Access Control, Identity, SSO, MFA
  • Performance / reliability : Auto-scale, ASG, ALB, NLB
  • Storage / Data warehouses : EFS, S3, Snowflake, SQL
  • Proficiency in Python- this person will be writing code in python daily!
  • Knowledge of enterprise coding standards
  • Ability to perform code reviews
  • Observability CloudWatch / CloudTrail, Event Bridge, Data Dog or any industry standard tools
  • Plus :

  • Experience with Big Data Technologies like Spark, Glue
  • Having an idea or exposure of Spark and Glue is good!
  • Good to Have- Shell (Unix) / Batch Script
  • Angular, Node JS
  • Knowledge of Service Oriented, Microservices and Event-driven design patterns
  • Super Plus :

  • Knowledge of Machine Learning foundations
  • Performance / Accuracy Metrics, Hyper-parameters, Training, Feedback, Inference
  • Understanding of MLOps
  • General Must-Haves for any AWS Software Engineer :

  • Ensure reusability using framework, Domain Driven Approach, Modular Coding, Analytical, Data Driven Approach.
  • Experience working on complex cloud-based software projects, web application development, security and open-source technologies.
  • Knowledge of software methodologies and agile development methodologies.
  • Good understanding of Enterprise DevOps practice.
  • Ability to estimate effort.
  • Be able to translate Business needs into technology goals.
  • Be able to troubleshoot issues using services / resources / platforms / logs.
  • Strategic thinker, innovative, responsible, confident, clear in thoughts, collaborative and has good communication skills.
  • Raise PBC is committed to a policy of nondiscrimination and equal opportunity for all employees and qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, genetics, gender identity, veterans' status, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by law. Raise PBC is an equal-opportunity employer encouraging diversity in the workplace.

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