AWS Cloud Engineer

Senior AWS Cloud Engineer

Location: Dallas TX

DLRdmv delivers innovative Title & Registration technology solutions to the Automotive Industry. DLRdmv offers an exciting entrepreneurial work environment for individuals interested in being part of a growing company that is fully committed to serving its customers. Our mission is to provide best-in-class products and services to our clients and earn their business every day. As an AWS Cloud Engineer youre a critical part of that mission; building delivering and supporting the cloud solutions underpinning the services our customers depend on daily.

Job Description: The AWS Cloud Engineer is hands-on and responsible for managing and maintaining DLRdmvs cloud environments. Specifically this role collaborates closely with technology and product teams to understand needs and requirements before translating them into action from design and documentation to monitoring and support. For existing solutions the AWS Cloud Engineer monitors environments to identify and implement enhancements or improvements as technologies standards and best-practices evolve.

This role is a key technical authority for cloud architecture and security and as such requires staying current on the latest industry technology and standards and maintaining an intimate familiarity with our obligations for security data handling and risk management.

The AWS Cloud Engineer reports to the Director of IT and may be tasked with special projects as assigned by senior leadership.

Responsibilities:

Maintain technical expertise in AWS and related technologies

Develop implement and support secure AWS solutions in accordance with best practices participating in all aspects of the software development lifecycle

Monitor the cloud environment for efficient operation enhancing and improving as needed

Design and maintain monitoring logging and alerting strategies to ensure reliability performance and rapid incident response

Identify analyze and resolve infrastructure or configuration vulnerabilities

Troubleshoot incidents identify root causes fix and document solutions and implement preventive measures

Own backup restoration and recovery/failover processes

Conduct regular reviews of cloud environments for monthly / quarterly audit making recommendations for improvements and participating in Security Risk Assessments

Recommend improvements for existing cloud infrastructure and lead any modernization efforts that may be required

Demonstrate exceptional problem-solving skills with an ability to see and resolve issues before they impact productivity

Work with peers throughout the organization to define implement and document best practices and standards

Experience & Qualifications:

Bachelors degree in information systems computer science or related field of study or equivalent in education and work experience

AWS certification strongly preferred (Solutions Architect Advanced Networking Security)

Demonstrated experience owning and operating production AWS environments including responsibility for reliability security and ongoing improvement

Experience designing implementing and operating AWS VPC architectures including routing security controls and service connectivity

Hands-on expertise with core AWS services including compute storage databases containers serverless and integration services (EC2 S3/EBS RDS/DynamoDB EKS/ECS/ECR Lambda Glue)

Experience managing Windows and Linux servers in a production environment

Command of AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) security controls and compliance frameworks (CIS SOC ISO)

Strong automation and scripting skills (Terraform Bash PowerShell Python)

Exceptional problem-solving and empirical skills with the ability to work collaboratively communicate clearly and operate independently in a fast-paced environment

Familiarity with and modern web application architectures

DLRdmv offers a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package including life medical dental vision and more.

DLRdmv is an EEO Employer. We sincerely appreciate your interest and will carefully evaluate your qualifications for employment. Be assured your opportunity for employment with our company will be based only on your merit without regard to race color religion sex age national origin mental or physical disability or any other factor unrelated to job requirements.