Aws Cloud Engineer
NextGen Information Services, Inc.
Chicago, IL, United States
3 days ago
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Role details
Contract type
Contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source
Tech stack
Microsoft Access
Amazon Web Services
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
Amazon S3
Configuration Management
Cyber Security
DevOps
Monitoring of Systems
Identity and Access Management
Intrusion Detection and Prevention
Systems Integration
Datadog
+7 more
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Cloudformation
Route53
Functional Programming
Cloudwatch
Terraform
Pagerduty
Job description
- Monitor and respond to AWS infrastructure alerts using PagerDuty and customer support tickets.
- Troubleshoot AWS services, including EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, Lambda, S3, CloudWatch, Route 53, ALB/NLB, and VPC networking.
- Resolve incidents within defined SLAs and follow runbooks and escalation procedures.
- Manage AWS Support cases and provide timely customer updates.
- Configure and maintain Datadog/CloudWatch monitoring, dashboards, and alerts.
- Document incident timelines, troubleshooting steps, and root causes.
- Identify recurring issues and recommend operational improvements.
- Collaborate with architecture teams and potentially expand into security operations.
Requirements
- AWS Solutions Architect Associate or Professional certification.
- Hands-on AWS infrastructure operations experience.
- Multi-account AWS environments and cross-account IAM role assumption.
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or CloudFormation).
- Incident management, alert triage, severity classification, and SLA-driven support.
- Troubleshooting AWS compute, networking, storage, and database services.
- Monitoring tools such as Datadog, CloudWatch, and PagerDuty.
- Strong written and verbal communication during incidents.
Preferred Skills
- Datadog administration: agents, custom metrics, monitors, dashboards, integrations, and alert routing.
- CrowdStrike Falcon deployment, policy configuration, and detection/response.
- SOC or security operations experience, including threat detection and incident response.
Nice-to-Have Skills
- AWS SysOps Administrator, DevOps Engineer, or Security Specialty certifications.
- ECS/EKS container orchestration.
- FinOps and AWS cost optimization.
- NOC or operations center experience.
- AWS security services: GuardDuty, Security Hub, CloudTrail, and IAM Access Analyzer., Look for a hands-on AWS Cloud Support/Operations Engineer with strong incident response and troubleshooting skills, Terraform or CloudFormation experience, and an AWS Solutions Architect certification. Important screening criteria
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