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# Cloud Engineer

- **Company:** Strategic Staffing Solutions
- **Location:** St. Louis, MO, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, Proxy Servers, Bash Shell, Cyber Security, DevOps, Domain Name System (DNS), Github, Groovy, Identity and Access Management, Virtual Private Networks (VPN), Python (Programming Language), Lightweight Directory Access Protocols (LDAP), Linux System Administration, Routing, OpenID, Public Key Infrastructure, Role-Based Access Control, Azure Active Directory, Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), TCP/IP, Cloudbees, Scripting, Load Balancing, System Availability, Software Security, Firewalls (Computer Science), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Kubernetes, Route53, Terraform, Data Pipelines, Devsecops, Docker, Jenkins, Static Application Security Testing
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/25ade16c-edf3-49e2-ba9a-b4ce72e3b6dd

## About the Role

* 7+ years in DevOps / DevSecOps / platform engineering
 * Hands-on administration of an enterprise CI platform (Jenkins/CloudBees preferred) and pipeline development using shared/reusable libraries
 * Practical GitHub Actions experience workflows, reusable workflows, runners, secrets
 * Strong hands-on AWS (EKS, EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, Route 53, KMS, EFS) and production Kubernetes
 * Terraform at production scale modules, state management, multi-environment, pipeline-driven plan/apply; plus Helm and Docker
 * Pipeline security tooling: SAST, SCA, SBOM, container scanning, quality gates
 * Linux administration and troubleshooting
 * Networking TCP/IP, DNS, routing, firewalls, load balancing, proxies, VPN/Transit Gateway, packet-level diagnostics
 * Certificates and TLS PKI, issuance, and renewal, truststores, mTLS
 * Identity LDAP, Azure AD / SAML / OIDC, SSO, SCIM, RBAC
 * Scripting in Python, Bash, and Groovy
 * Ability to work independently with broad ownership; strong documentation discipline; participation in on-call rotation

Education

 * Bachelor's degree is required

*Beware of scams. S3 never asks for money during its onboarding process

## Description

* Support internal teams and provide ongoing production and operational support.
 * Investigate and resolve production issues, incident tickets, and operational requests.
 * Work with new teams to onboard them onto the organization's development platforms and standards.
 * Assist teams with adoption of CI/CD pipelines, GitHub, and other development tooling.
 * Collaborate closely with development teams to ensure proper setup and integration with platform services.
 * Partner with the Application Security (AppSec) and Cybersecurity teams to ensure security policies, standards, and compliance requirements are followed.
 * Support and maintain the existing platform and operational environment.
 * Work on continuous improvements related to platform reliability, development processes, and security practices.


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