Role: Sr. Cloud Engineer

Rate: $12,000/month

Location: Remote (Eastern, Central, and Mountain time zones)

Requirements: U.S. Citizenship required; ability to pass an enhanced background check (criminal, financial, drug) for Public Trust clearance
Duration: Ongoing Contract

Job Description:

We are seeking a highly skilled Sr. Cloud Engineer to support the daily operations and long-term reliability of cloud-based infrastructure. This role is critical for ensuring uptime, performing proactive maintenance, troubleshooting issues, and implementing fixes across cloud environments. The candidate will work closely with development, operations, and security teams to ensure scalability, performance, and security of cloud applications.

Responsibilities:

• Deploy applications across multiple environments (development, staging, production) and ensure consistency and stability

• Build reusable pipeline templates, jobs, and stages for CI/CD consistency across teams

• Collaborate with developers to containerize and deploy applications using ECS and Lambda

• Configure GitLab Runners and manage environment-specific variables and secrets

• Define and deploy readiness and liveness probes for containers running in EKS/ECS

• Write custom scripts for CloudWatch metrics and alarms based on application-specific probes

• Monitor deployments and system health using CloudWatch and other tools

• Implement rollback strategies and manage version control during deployments

• Troubleshoot and resolve deployment issues; improve pipeline performance and reliability

• Perform daily health checks using AWS CLI or scheduled Lambda scripts; log and report results

• Set up monitoring thresholds, dashboards, and metrics for applications and infrastructure

• Perform root cause analysis and incident correlation using monitoring and performance tools

• Maintain a central inventory of all licensed software deployed in AWS environments

• Maintain accurate documentation on infrastructure and procedures

• Assess and patch infrastructure software, including third-party software

• Develop a patch testing schedule and rollout plan with rollback and recovery procedures

• Create and manage change records; participate in PI planning and Agile ceremonies

• Keep cloud environments compliant with security standards and best practices

• Orchestrate failover and restoration of ECS/EKS services, Lambda functions, databases, and other components

• Test and document regional failover playbooks and recovery runbooks

• Ensure compliance with RTO (Recovery Time Objective) and RPO (Recovery Point Objective) requirements

• Participate in on-call rotations to support 24/7 production systems and respond to incidents

Required Qualifications:

• BA/BS in IT, Computer Science, or related field (or equivalent work experience)

• 8+ years of IT experience, including 5+ years in cloud support, infrastructure maintenance, or IT operations

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation)

• Strong proficiency with AWS Lambda (writing, deploying, optimizing)

• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools (GitHub, GitLab, EKS, Kubernetes, DevOps)

• Scripting skills for automation and maintenance tasks (Bash, Python)

• Cloud certifications (AWS DevOps Engineer, Solutions Architect Associate)

• Strong written and verbal communication skills for technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

• U.S. Citizen; able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ability to diagnose performance issues in cloud environments

• Experience with pre-check and post-check scripts for system health validation

• Familiarity with container orchestration (Docker, ECS, Kubernetes)

• Knowledge of ITIL practices or incident management frameworks

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