AWS Cloud Engineer

Job Title: AWS Cloud Engineer

Job Location: Jersey City NJ (5 days onsite)

Project Duration: 8 months (Contract to Hire)

Industry experience required: Banking Financial Industry

Job responsibilities

• Cloud teams and external lines of business to determine enhancements to cloud capabilities and products
• Executes software solutions design development and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Creates secure and high-quality production code and maintains algorithms that run synchronously with appropriate systems
• Produces architecture and design artifacts for complex applications while being accountable for ensuring design constraints are met by software code development
• Gathers analyzes synthesizes and develops visualizations and reporting from large diverse data sets in service of continuous improvement of software applications and systems
• Proactively identifies hidden problems and patterns in data and uses these insights to drive improvements to coding hygiene and system architecture
• Contributes to software engineering communities of practice and events that explore new and emerging technologies
• Adds to team culture of diversity equity inclusion and respect

Required qualifications capabilities and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 3 years applied cloud experience
• Applied proficiency developing enhancing and supporting next-generation IaC cloud modules and functionality with Terraform
• Hands-on practical experience in system design application development testing and operational stability
• Demonstrable proficiency for coding Python Go or other automation scripting language
• Strong SDLC skills including configuration of build pipelines release management change management and GitOps model
• Solid understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD Applicant Resiliency and Security
• Designs and implements scalable secure and cost-effective AWS infrastructure solutions
• Develops and maintains infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform CloudFormation or AWS CDK.
• Automates infrastructure provisioning configuration and deployment processes
• Proficiency with cloud architecture design principles for security resiliency cost optimization observability
• Develops and maintain scripts and tools to enhance operational efficiency
• Participates in continuous learning and professional development opportunities
• Ability to triage and debug code to identify and resolve issues in automation scripts and frameworks
• Experience in using Cucumber for behavior-driven development (BDD) and test automation

Preferred qualifications capabilities and skills

• Demonstrable proficiency for coding Python Go or other automation scripting language
• Exposure to cloud technologies
• Experience with container technologies such as Kubernetes Docker AWS ECS and AWS EKS