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# Senior AWS Cloud Engineer

- **Company:** Akaasa Technologies
- **Location:** Chicago, IL, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Temporary to permanent
- **Skills:** .NET Framework, Algorithmic Trading, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, Bash Shell, C Sharp (Programming Language), Cloud Computing Security, Cloud Engineering, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Disaster Recovery, Github, Monitoring of Systems, Identity and Access Management, Python (Programming Language), Linux System Administration, Windows PowerShell, Prometheus, Scripting, Cloud Platform System, System Availability, Grafana, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Cloudformation, Amazon Relational Database Service, Gitlab-ci, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Route53, Cloud Migration, Cloudwatch, Api Gateway, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Terraform, OpenSearch, Docker, Jenkins
- **Published:** November 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.com/jobad/us1b5e1e82abd0fcc8edda737d04a963fb

## About the Role

The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in AWS cloud architecture, DevOps engineering, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and automation. The role involves designing and implementing scalable, secure, highly available cloud-native platforms, modernizing legacy applications, automating infrastructure, and improving deployment and operational processes., * 7+ years of overall cloud engineering experience, with at least 5 years of hands-on AWS experience.

 * Strong hands-on experience with AWS services, including EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, Route 53, RDS/Aurora, Lambda, CloudWatch, ECS/EKS, API Gateway, SNS/SQS, Secrets Manager, and KMS.
 * Strong experience with Terraform (Mandatory) and AWS CloudFormation.
 * Experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, and Jenkins.
 * Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes/EKS.
 * Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills.
 * Scripting experience with Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
 * Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as CloudWatch, Grafana, Prometheus, and ELK/OpenSearch.
 * Strong understanding of cloud security, high availability, disaster recovery, and infrastructure automation.
 * Experience with application migration, modernization, and production support.
 * Experience in financial services, capital markets, investment management, ETF platforms, or trading systems. Familiarity with legacy .NET/C# application modernization is highly desirable.

## Description

We are seeking a hands-on Senior AWS Cloud Engineer to support our client's ETF platform modernization, operational resiliency, and cloud transformation initiatives.