Cloud Engineer

Location: Onsite 3 days a wk; Hybrid – Office location is Plano TX

Required Pay Scale: $60-65hr W2
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• Due to client requirements this role is only open to USC or GC candidates
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• Responsibilities
• Design and implement centralized observability and monitoring/alerting solutions in AWS environment.
• Manage AWS Cloud backup and recovery solutions for critical infrastructure
• Assist with implementation of AWS Cloud Security policies and guardrails
• Create and maintain Terraform IaC (Infrastructure as Code) to ensure architectural consistency and security
• Design and implement best practices for operational excellence, security, reliability, performance, efficiency, and cost optimization for AWS Cloud platform
• Experience in designing, analyzing and troubleshooting in AWS environment
• Ability to design and implement sending data in AWS environment to monitoring tools
• Operational Process and Routine: Strong adherence to operating controls, risk management, process review and creation, documentation, and collaborative knowledge sharing
• Inter-personal skills and communication skills
• Proven ability to work independently with minimal supervision and as part of a team with direct responsibilities
• Identify inefficiencies in current and implement improved solutions
• Assist in planning and implementing capacity and resource expansion to ensure scalability of cloud platform supporting applications

Must Haves:
• 3 + Experience in AWS Solution Architecture
• Hands on implementation experience with Kinesis Firehose, Lambda, Cloudwatch, SQS, SNS, S3 for transporting data and metric
• IaC Tools - Terraform and AWS CloudFormation
• Code management tools
• CICD tools - Code Pipeline, CircleCI, and Jenkins
• Configuration management tools - Ansible, AWS Systems Manager
• Experience working in Linux-based infrastructure
• Cloud operations and Support
• Cloud engineering. Operations and DevOps skills
• Experience in root cause analysis and help identifying the issue. Pros and Cons of options.

Required skills:
• 3 years + of full software development life cycle, including standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• Experience in AWS Solution Architecture
• Hands on implementation experience with Kinesis Firehose, Lambda, Cloudwatch, SQS, SNS, S3 for transporting data and metric
• IaC Tools. 3+ year experience in Terraform and AWS CloudFormation
• Code management tool. 3+years experience in Bitbucket
• CICD tools. 3+ year experience Code Pipeline, CircleCI, and Jenkins
• Configuration management tools 3+ years experience in Ansible, AWS Systems Manager
• Package Repository tools 3+ years experience with Artifactory and AWS ECR
• Experience working in Linux-based infrastructure
• High Code proficiency in High Level Language Python
• Cloud operations and Support
• Cloud engineering. Operations and DevOps skills
• Shell Scripting
• Experience in root cause analysis and help identifying the issue. Pros and Cons of options.

Preferred Certifications:
• AWS Certification for Developer Associate
• AWS Certification for DevOps Engineer
• AWS Certification for Solutions Architect

About Matlen Silver

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