AWS Sr. Cloud Engineer

Swanktek, Inc
Columbus, OH, United States
23 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
1 year minimum
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Amazon Web Services Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Identity and Access Management Spinnaker Management of Software Versions Data Logging Autoscaling Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) AWS ECS Containerization Infrastructure Automation Frameworks Deployment Automation
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Hashicorp AWS Fargate BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) Terraform Splunk Dynatrace Jenkins

Job description

  • Build and operate container platforms using Amazon ECS/EKS (EC2 and/or Fargate) including clusters, services, task definitions, autoscaling, IAM roles, and ALB/NLB integrations.
  • Implement modern deployment strategies such as blue/green and controlled rollouts, with strong rollback mechanisms and environment consistency.
  • Create and govern Terraform modules/patterns for consistent provisioning (VPC, IAM, ECS, logging/monitoring, and shared services), including remote state, versioning, and promotion across environments
  • Understand the client process and implement CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins (CI) and Spinnaker (CD) to standardize build, test, artifact promotion, and deployments to ECS.
  • Implement end-to-end observability: APM, metrics, tracing, logging, dashboards, alerts, and SLO-style operational readiness using Dynatrace + Splunk integrated with ECS workloads.
  • Establish standards for telemetry collection (e.g., sidecar-based collection patterns where applicable) and ensure operations teams can diagnose issues rapidly

Requirements

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional - This is for overall AWS knowledge / skills
  • HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate - For Infrastructure Automation skills.

Top Skills Overall AWS Services 5+ years Terraform - IAC 3+ years AWS ECS & EKS 2+ years Jenkins 2+ years Spinnaker 2+ years Splunk 1+ years Dynatrace 1+ years

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