Lead AWS Cloud Engineer

Role: Lead AWS Cloud Engineer

Location: Troy MI

3 Months role.

W2 Contract Onsite role.

Must Haves:

• 12 years of IT experience
• Bachelors degree (or foreign equivalent) in a Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• 7 years of handson Amazon Web Services cloud engineering and administration experience
• Strong experience supporting the Amazon Web Services stack VPCs EC2 S3 EKS Availability Zones Security Groups ELB/ALB Control Tower CloudFront Lambda IAM and similar technologies.
• 3 years handson experience working with Kubernetes and container orchestration.
• 3 years experience with automation and deployment tools (Jenkins GitHub Actions Argo CD)
• Understand concepts of security related tooling and scanning (Web App Firewall SAST DAST).
• Knowledge of Apache based Webserver or Nginx.
• Experience supporting Linux or *nix operating systems.
• Ability to break down work in manageable pieces to delegate to junior team members.

Nice to Haves:

• Strong understanding of cloud and infrastructure components (compute storage network data and applications) to deliver endtoend cloud Infrastructure architectures designs & recommendations
• Understanding of Infrastructure as Code approaches to infrastructure management
• Skilled in infrastructureascode languages such as CloudFormation or Terraform
• Skilled in task automation via scripting.
• Strong understanding of container security management deployment and orchestration in Amazon Web Services
• Experience managing and supporting Microservices designs and patterns
• Ability to drive innovation and work as an individual contributor in a fastpaced environment
• Application Performance Management (Dynatrace or similar).
• Knowledge of LDAP concepts and experience working with a LDAP Directory.
• Experience with Agile development and release practices.
• Take an active role in continuous improvement of software development tools methodologies and policies.