Sr Cloud Engineer - AWS

Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior AWS Engineer with deep expertise in EC2 instances EKS and containerization AMIs Lambda and disaster recovery. The ideal candidate will play a critical role in designing implementing and maintaining scalable secure and resilient solutions in the AWS cloud environment. This is a key position for driving our cloud initiatives enhancing infrastructure reliability and ensuring disaster recovery preparedness.

Why Jewelers Mutual

We are a financially secure exceptionally positioned and intellectually curious company driven by our core values of Agility Accountability and Relevancy! We continue to raise the tide of the jewelry industry weve served since 1913 through our innovative people our unyielding customer commitment and evolution of our products and services to be the most trusted advisor to all we serve.

With a generous benefits package office locations throughout the United States and a mantra of making your mark today consider evolving your career and shining bright with Jewelers Mutual Group!

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Design deploy and manage AWS EC2 instances for optimal performance and cost efficiency.
• Develop and manage Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) to support scalable deployments.
• Deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters using Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS).
• Design containerized solutions for applications ensuring efficient orchestration and scaling.
• Implement best practices for container security monitoring and lifecycle management.
• Develop and manage serverless solutions using AWS Lambda for eventdriven architecture.
• Optimize Lambda functions for performance scalability and cost efficiency.
• Design and implement disaster recovery strategies and backup solutions in AWS.
• Perform regular DR drills to ensure readiness and minimize recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO).
• Create and manage infrastructure using tools like CloudFormation AWS CDK or Terraform.
• Automate provisioning scaling and configuration of resources using Python Bash or similar scripting languages.
• Implement monitoring and alerting solutions using AWS CloudWatch CloudTrail and other tools.
• Continuously optimize cloud resources for performance reliability and cost.
• Collaborate with development DevOps and security teams to align cloud solutions with business goals.

To perform this job successfully an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential function.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in IT a related field or equivalent experience.
• Must have at least 4 6 years of related experience in Information Technology.
• Must have at least 3 4 years of experience in AWS.

• Extensive handson experience with AWS services including EC2 EKS Lambda and AMI management.
• Understanding of containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Strong knowledge of disaster recovery principles and AWSnative tools (e.g. AWS Backup AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery).
• Proficiency in scripting and automation using Python Bash or PowerShell.
• Deep understanding of AWS IAM VPC security groups and network configurations.
• Property/casualty insurance background and jewelry industry experience are helpful but not required.
• Experience with multiregion AWS architectures and hybrid cloud setups.
• Knowledge of infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform or AWS CDK.
• Understanding of cost management and optimization strategies in AWS.
• Familiarity with logging and analytics tools like Splunk Datadog or ELK stack in an AWS environment.

Certificates Licenses Registrations

AWS Certifications in Operations Networking and Security at the associate or above level are a plus.

Physical Requirements

• Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• Occasionally required to stand; walk; use hands to finger handle or touch objects or controls; and talk or hear.

Required Experience:

Senior IC