What are the responsibilities and job description for the AWS Cloud Engineer position at Vector Consulting, Inc?
Our government client is seeking an experienced AWS Cloud Engineer on a hybrid 6 months renewable contract opportunity in Austin, TX.
Role: AWS Cloud Engineer
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.
Requirements
II. CANDIDATE SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE 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.
About Vector
Vector Consulting, Inc., (Headquartered in Atlanta) is an IT Talent Acquisition Solutions firm committed to delivering results. Since our founding in 1990, we have been partnering with our customers, understanding their business, and developing solutions with a commitment to quality, reliability and value. Our continuing growth has been and continues to be built around successful relationships that are based on our organization's operating philosophy and commitment to ** People, Partnerships, Purpose and Performance - THE VECTOR WAY
www.vectorconsulting.com
“Celebrating 30 years of service.”
Role: AWS Cloud Engineer
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.
Requirements
II. CANDIDATE SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE 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.
About Vector
Vector Consulting, Inc., (Headquartered in Atlanta) is an IT Talent Acquisition Solutions firm committed to delivering results. Since our founding in 1990, we have been partnering with our customers, understanding their business, and developing solutions with a commitment to quality, reliability and value. Our continuing growth has been and continues to be built around successful relationships that are based on our organization's operating philosophy and commitment to ** People, Partnerships, Purpose and Performance - THE VECTOR WAY
www.vectorconsulting.com
“Celebrating 30 years of service.”
