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# AWS Sr. Cloud Engineer

- **Company:** Swanktek, Inc
- **Location:** Columbus, OH, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** 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, Hashicorp, AWS Fargate, BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM), Terraform, Splunk, Dynatrace, Jenkins
- **Published:** August 14, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/fe283fb3-07d8-4c2e-910d-4d845d870cf4

## About the Role

* 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

## 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


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