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# Cloud Engineer

- **Company:** Akaasa Technologies
- **Location:** Boston, MA, United States
- **Salary:** $87,100.0 - $157,450.0
- **Contract:** Temporary to permanent
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Amazon Web Services, Amazon S3, Software as a Service, Cloud Engineering, Computer Programming, Continuous Integration, Information Engineering, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Distributed Systems, Python (Programming Language), Software Engineering, Data Processing, Cloud Platform System, Snowflake, Software Troubleshooting, AWS Lambda, Event Driven Architecture, Containerization, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Deployment Automation, Api Gateway, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Terraform, Docker
- **Published:** August 23, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.com/jobad/us4b3b5677732f491f0c91d25f107cf6f4

## About the Role

Required

 * Strong hands-on programming experience with Python.
 * Strong experience with AWS services, including:

 * Amazon EKS
 * AWS Lambda
 * Amazon API Gateway
 * Amazon SQS
 * Amazon S3
 * AWS event-driven architectures and event triggers
 * Experience with Docker and containerization.
 * Strong knowledge of Kubernetes and kubectl for cluster management and troubleshooting.
 * Strong experience with Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code practices.
 * Understanding of CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and cloud-native application development.
 * Experience building and supporting scalable, resilient cloud-based applications.
 * Strong troubleshooting, problem-solving, and communication skills.

Others

 * Experience with Snowflake and cloud-based data platforms.
 * Knowledge of data engineering, ETL processes, and distributed systems.
 * Familiarity with AWS monitoring and observability tools.
 * Experience working in Agile development environments and cross-functional teams.
 * Experience supporting applications across Development, UAT, and Production environments.

The successful candidate will play a key role in building and operationalizing a modern, event-driven AWS platform that enables scalable data processing and seamless integration across multiple environments.

## Description

Our client is seeking an experienced Cloud Engineer / Software Engineer to design, develop, and implement an end-to-end event-driven data processing pipeline on AWS. The ideal candidate will have strong Python and AWS experience and will be responsible for building scalable, resilient, and production-ready solutions that process configuration-based messages, orchestrate data workflows, and integrate with downstream services running on AWS.


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