AWS Cloud Engineer-Systems Analyst (Required Local Cand & Prefer with Healthcare/Public Sector Exp)

Respond by : 02/12/24

Rate: DOE

Type: Contract

Work Mode: 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.

Please respond with resume and 3 references preferably supervisor (name, title, company, email, phone number)

Preference will be given to candidates who meet all preferred skills and have public sector experience

Background Check will be performed if a candidate is selected for placement and will have to be passed'

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.

II. CANDIDATE SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

Minimum Requirements: Candidates that do not meet or exceed the minimum stated requirements (skills/experience) will be displayed to customers but may not be chosen for this opportunity.
Years	Required/Preferred	Experience
8	Required	Experience in cloud engineering with at least 5 years focused on core AWS services
5	Preferred	Experience automating deployments using CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ansible and similar tools
4	Preferred	Experience with serverless architecture
4	Preferred	Designing and implementing high availability and fault tolerant systems
4	Preferred	Experience with monitoring tools, including cloudwatch, Prometheus, Grafana, and splunk
4	Preferred	Experience in containerization, proficient with ECS, EKS, and/or fargate
2	Preferred	Strong skills in Python, Bash, or other scripting/programming languages
1	Preferred	Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills
1	Preferred	AWS certifications strongly preferred
1	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.

III. TERMS OF SERVICE

Services are expected to start 03/17/2025 and are expected to complete by 08/31/2025. Total estimated hours per Candidate shall not exceed 1176 hours. This service may be amended, renewed, and/or extended providing both parties agree to do so in writing.

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