Cloud Engineer - AWS

PTR Global

Wilmington, DE, United States

2 days ago

Role details

Contract type

Permanent contract

Employment type

Full-time (> 32 hours)

Experience level

Expert

Experience required

5 years minimum

Compensation

$166,400.0 - $176,800.0

Working hours

Regular working hours

Job source

www.dice.com

Tech stack

Java (Programming Language) Agile Methodology Amazon Web Services Amazon Cloudfront Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Amazon S3 Microsoft Azure Cloud Computing Cloud Engineering Cloud Foundry Program Optimization Databases

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Continuous Delivery Continuous Integration DevOps Amazon DynamoDB Github Python (Programming Language) PostgreSQL Apache Maven Node.Js NoSQL Peering Performance Tuning Reliability Engineering Ansible Prometheus Scala (Programming Language) Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) Software Engineering SONAR (Symantec) SQL Databases Datadog Google Cloud Test-Driven Development (TDD) Spring-boot Safety Critical Systems Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Cloudformation Event Driven Architecture Amazon Relational Database Service Kubernetes Information Technology Route53 Cloudwatch Api Gateway Restful APIs Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) Terraform Splunk Dynatrace Docker Jenkins Artifactory Golang Programming Languages Microservices

Job description

Expert in in Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure technology and design technique as well as experience working across large environments with multiple operating systems/infrastructure for large-scale programs (e.g., Expert Engineers) starting to be firm-wide resources working on projects across Client
Is multi-skilled with expertise across software development lifecycle and toolset
May be recognized as a leader in Agile and cultivating teams working in Agile frameworks
Sought out as coach for at least one technical skill
Strong understanding of techniques such as Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Test Driven Development, Cloud Development, resiliency, security
Stays abreast of cutting-edge technologies/trends and uses experience to influence application of those technologies/trends to support the business; may give speeches and outside the firm, writes articles, * Lead complex public cloud migrations, proactively identify potential issues, and implement risk mitigation strategies to ensure the success of multiple cloud initiatives.
Collaborate with product and engineering teams to deliver robust, cloud-based solutions that improve customer experiences.
Take ownership of platform issues from end to end, resolve challenges related to platform build and performance on AWS Cloud, and ensure high-quality, bug-free deliverables.
Develop strategies and provide guidance to product teams on public cloud onboarding standards and best practices, ensuring migrations are successful and compliant with all regulatory requirements.
Drive the adoption and effective use of Amazon’s utility computing services (e.g., AWS EC2, S3, RDS, CloudFront, EFS, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, EKS, ECS, MFTS, API Gateway, VPC Peering).
Design resilient, secure, and high-performance platforms in the public cloud, following Client best practices.
Measure and optimize system performance, anticipate customer needs, and drive continuous innovation.
Provide operational support and engineering for the public cloud platform, troubleshoot and optimize systems, and automate routine tasks.
Work closely with cross-functional teams to develop practical solutions and ensure positive user experiences at every touchpoint.
Manage costs by designing and optimizing public cloud platforms and technologies. Organize and lead game days, resiliency tests, and chaos engineering exercises.
Apply expertise in programming languages such as Java, Python, SQL, Node, Go, and Scala; work with open source RDBMS and NoSQL databases; utilize container orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes; and leverage a wide range of AWS services.

Requirements

Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5 years applied experience
A strong understanding of business technology drivers and their impact on architecture design, performance and monitoring, best practices
Design and building web environments on AWS, which includes working with services like EC2, ELB, RDS, DynamoDB, EKS, ECS, MFTS, SQS/SNS, S3 and Route53
Proficiency in few modern technologies such as: Java version 8+, Spring Boot, Restful Microservices, AWS or Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes.
Experience using DevOps tools in a cloud environment, such as Ansible, Artifactory, Docker, GitHub, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Maven, and Sonar Qube
Experience using monitoring solutions like CloudWatch, Prometheus, Datadog, Splunk, Dynatrace
Experience and knowledge of writing Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), using tools like CloudFormation or Terraform
Experience with one or more public cloud platforms like AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Azure
Experience with high volume, SLA critical applications and their interdependencies with other applications and databases
Experience with high volume, mission critical applications, and building upon messaging and or event-driven architectures
Keen understanding of financial industry and their IT systems and optimization of Public Cloud expenses