

AWS Engineer
Pay Range:: $60/hr - $62/hr
Location: Houston, TX 77002
Local candidates or those willing to come Onsite (4 times a week)
10 Years of Experience Minimum
Primary Responsibilities:
• Contributes strategic technology vision and integrates a broad range of ideas regarding applications and software development. Presents communicates, and articulates technical processes effectively to all levels within the organization (including technical and non-technical audiences, Senior Leadership, VPs, and the C-level executives).
• Undertakes complex application development and maintenance projects involving multiple disciplines and multiple facets of the business. Implements software engineering best practices.
• Develop enterprise-level information technology solutions by analyzing, coding, testing, and implementing new and modifying existing software applications.
• Lead design/coding sessions, and develop and maintain solutions.
• Articulates design and resolves technical/design conflicts as they occur.
• Coordinates with business analysts and users to determine requirements. Performs analysis of system requirements and existing business processes.
• Works with customers and technical staff to resolve software problems and responds to suggestions for improvements and enhancements.
• Reviews systems under development and related documentation. Participates in the development of software.
• Should have a Product mindset and Lead advanced systems planning, scheduling, and implementation.
Must Haves:
• All Cloud Technologies: AWS Services such as Lambda, IAM, S3, EFS, SQS, SNS, API Gateway, CLI, Kinesis, Glue, Elasticache (Redis), CloudWatch, CloudFormation, EC2
• Experience working with Databases: Oracle, SQL, Server, PostgreSQL, and NoSQL databases such as Cassandra and Dynamo DB
• Containers: Docker/Kubernetes/ECS
• Integrations: REST, API, Synch, Asynch, Realtime, Batch
• Network: VPC, Subnet, SG, IP ( CIDR )
• MUST Have an understanding of network infrastructure as this is a Senior role!
• Security: WAF, Encryption, Access Control, Identity, SSO, MFA
• Performance/reliability: Auto-scale, ASG, ALB, NLB
• Storage/Datawarehouese: EFS, S3, Snowflake, SQL
• Proficiency in Python- this person will be writing code in Python daily!
• Knowledge of enterprise coding standards
• Ability to perform code reviews
• Observability CloudWatch/CloudTrail, Event Bridge, Data Dog, or any industry standard tools
Plus:
• Experience with Big Data Technologies like Spark, Glue
• Having an idea or exposure to Spark and Glue is good!
• Good to Have- Shell (Unix) /Batch Script
• Angular, Node JS
• Knowledge of Service Oriented, Microservices, and Event-driven design patterns