Cloud Solutions Engineer

Greenwood Village, CO - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 11 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Description:

Cloud Solutions Engineer IV

Contract Duration: 6-12 months extensions

Interview Process: 2 rounds

Location: St. Louis or Denver Denver preferred

Greenwood Village CO 80111

Maryland Heights MO 63043

Hybrid: 4 days onsite 1 day remote

Must Haves:
- Kubernetes - solid understanding / experience
- AWS end to end - missing a few services not a big deal EKS specify policies implementing to production environment
- Gitlab Terraform
- Python or Shell is helpful
- WAF SECUIRYT GROUPS - SECURITY COMPONENT VERY IMPORTANT
- Implementing end to end observability and incident workflow - extremely important

This is a hands-on AWS Operations role responsible for full-lifecycle ownership of cloud infrastructure production support and end-to-end observability across a large-scale Kubernetes environment.

This team operates in a true 24/7 production operations model. The majority of time is spent responding to alerts isolating faults identifying trends and patterns and restoring service health across AWS-hosted applications. This is not a build-only engineering role - this is real-time operational ownership.

The team supports mission-critical customer engagement platforms and owns infrastructure security compliance and production stability from cradle to grave.

AWS Infrastructure Ownership

Own infrastructure build and teardown processes for production (up to 10 full rebuilds per week)
Build environments from scratch using the latest hardened base AMIs to reduce CVEs
Manage:
- EKS
- Security Groups
- WAF
- ALB/NLB
- Global Accelerator
- MFA compliance controls
Ensure lower environments mirror upper environments appropriately
Own GitLab infrastructure pipelines

Kubernetes & Deployment Support

Deploy Kubernetes objects and manage scaling strategies
Support application deployments without writing application code
Investigate deployment failures using logs and observability tools
Ensure environment consistency across pods and clusters

End-to-End Observability (Critical Requirement)

Implement and maintain full observability strategy
Use Datadog and Splunk for:
- Log analysis
- Metric correlation
- API monitoring
- Fault isolation
Integrate alerting workflows into xMatters
Drive actionable monitoring improvements

Security & Compliance

Manage WAF configurations and network security
Maintain secure AWS base AMIs
Monitor and remediate CPE/CVE vulnerabilities within required SLAs (60 days)
Maintain compliance with cyber metrics weekly
Participate in monthly governance reviews (9-box compliance process)
Ensure asset inventory accuracy and portfolio compliance across 27 applications

Required Experience

Strong hands-on AWS experience in production environments
Deep Kubernetes operational experience (EKS preferred)
Proven ability to perform fault isolation across distributed systems
Experience with:
- Datadog
- Splunk
- xMatters (or similar alert routing tools)
- GitLab pipelines (infrastructure-focused)
Strong understanding of:
- Security Groups
- WAF
- Load balancers (ALB/NLB)
- Global Accelerator
Experience owning production incidents from alert to resolution
Comfort operating in a 24/7 on-call environment

The CDS Ops role uniquely spans the full cloud delivery lifecycle owning both infrastructure and application automation on AWS via GitLab pipelines. It combines platform engineering DevOps SRE and SecOps skills: building AWS environments with Terraform and services like WAF Security Groups ALB/NLB Global Accelerator Kubernetes and databases; deploying applications with Kubernetes objects Helm charts and service mesh; and implementing end-to-end observability and incident workflows. The role delivers actionable monitoring with Datadog and Splunk-correlating API anomalies with infrastructure signals-and routes alerts through xMatters into a 24x7 SOC process. It also enforces security compliance by maintaining hardened AWS base AMIs to minimize CVEs managing exceptions and meeting cyber metrics. These capabilities are typically split across multiple departments which makes this single role uniquely valuable.

Description: Cloud Solutions Engineer IV Contract Duration: 6-12 months extensions Interview Process: 2 rounds Location: St. Louis or Denver Denver preferred Greenwood Village CO 80111 Maryland Heights MO 63043 Hybrid: 4 days onsite 1 day remote Must Haves: - Kubernetes - so...