Cloud Engineer Jobs

Position: Sr. Cloud Engineer
Contract: 6m C2H
Location: Denver, CO.
Must have skills: Terraform, AWS, Lambda, Kubernetes, Scripting, Docker and CiCd. AWS Control tower is a plus.
Client building out its Cloud capabilities for supporting Network Data Applications and Pipelines in the AWS cloud. This initiative within the Network Data and Analytics department aims to automate, design, deploy and test the various CI/CD pipelines, and implement application and data security controls in the cloud. The AWS Senior Cloud Engineer is responsible for developing automated tools and processes, deploying, securing, and monitoring containerized and serverless applications, and automating repetitive processes and jobs in an AWS Cloud Environment.
Job Duties And Responsibilities
Provide AWS Infrastructure and Systems Administration functions to include support of products and services such as IAM, EC2, S3, AWS Networking & Content delivery (VPC, IGW, NGW, ALB, NLB, CloudFront, etc.) and core Security: Security Groups, Cloud Trail and WAF
Assist with the design and development of a multi-account, multi-region, highly available and highly automated AWS environment to support full software development life cycle and production of mission-critical applications (LakeFormation, CodePipelines, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CloudFormation / Terraform / AWS CDK)
Understand and contribute to the creation of system support documents and operational procedures
Reactively troubleshoot outages, perform root cause analysis, and execute continual service improvements.
Drive automation and monitoring of containerized and serverless deployments
Implement MLOps for existing and new analytics applications
Skills, Experience And Requirements

• Excellent verbal and writing skills and the ability to communicate effectively with all levels
• Experience in Agile / Scrum Methodologies
• Will have considerable AWS and Linux skills, and DevOps skills around CI/CD and experience with tools such as GitLab (deploying using runners, etc.)
• Strong Cloud Native Fundamentals
• Extensive experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and Containers
• Awareness of critical concepts in DevOps and Agile principles

Education And Work Experience

• Scripting language experience (Python, Javascript, etc.), Strong working knowledge of AWS automation tools such as CloudFormation / Terraform / AWS CDK
• Spark, ElasticSearch, Kibana, Airflow, AWS Kinesis, AWS Lambda, ElastiCache
• Experience centrally monitoring systems for alerts and incident management functions
• 5+ years working with all core AWS Infrastructure Services
• Strong knowledge of AWS & Big Data Engineering Technologies
• Experience implementing /maintaining security for cloud-based systems /applications in AWS
• Configuration and managing databases such as PostgreSQL, Druid, Redis, Etc.
• 2-3 years working with AWS Security, and fluency with the AWS APIs/command-line tools
• Should possess one or more of the following certifications AWS Certification(s) Solutions Architect, DevOps, SysOps and/or Security Architect

High Energy, Problem Solving & Curious Attitude