Senior Cloud Engineer

Post Date

Apr 18, 2024

Location

Bloomfield,
Connecticut

ZIP/Postal Code

06002
US
Jul 18, 2024 Insight Global

Job Type

Contract-to-perm

Category

Software Engineering

Req #

HTD-698418

Pay Rate

$63 - $95 (hourly estimate)

Job Description

An employer is looking for a Senior Cloud Engineer to sit remotely. The candidate will be responsible for research and development of a Data Retention Application within the Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) team by leveraging industry and big data platform tools.

Candidate is expected to be an expert-level professional providing expert content/professional leadership on complex Cloud Engineering assignments/projects; exercising considerable creativity, foresight, and judgment in conceiving, planning, and delivering initiatives; uses deep professional knowledge and acumen to advise functional leaders; focuses on providing thought leadership within own discipline but works on broader projects, which require understanding of wider business; recognized internally as a subject matter expert. Implements organization's cloud strategy from a technical perspective, including design, planning, integration, maintenance and support of cloud architecture. Supports development and execution of cloud implementation strategy within organization's existing IT infrastructure. May work with stakeholders across organization to evaluate cloud systems and identify appropriate solutions.



Responsibilities:

Function as a hands-on developer of the ILM-Data Retention team - participating in design, document, develop, deploy, and maintenance of processes using Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe); Build solid and robust technical solutions to support the delivery of Enterprise Data Retention functions on-premise and cloud environments (AWS); Ensure adherence to existing strategic direction and architectural strategies; Work with engineers and developers to design and build scalable, automated CI/CD pipelines with latest open source resources; Develop automated processes for infrastructure builds, monitoring, deployments and integration. Ensure application observability patterns and site reliability practices; Develop AWS cloud platform using AWS EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, ECS/EKS, RDS, Lambda, Glue, Step Functions and others resources; DevOps IAC development using Terraform, Jenkins, Ansible, and others

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Required Skills & Experience

5+ years of recent experience in designing, developing, deploying, and supporting enterprise applications in a distributed environment and cloud (AWS)

Python or Java development on AWS cloud platform using AWS EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, ECS/EKS, RDS, Lambda, Airflow, Glue, Step Function and others resources

IAC development using Terraform, Jenkins, Ansible, and others

Experience with developing complex applications with relational database systems (RDBMS). SQL Proficiency

Strong automation background: emphasis on CI/CD, TDD

AWS (EMR/Spark, S3, EC2, Lambda, API Gateway, Airflow, Glue, Athena, Step Functions) CI/CD - GIT, Jenkins, Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift Agile Tools (Rally/Jira) API Frameworks (Flask, Fast API, Spring)

Nice to Have Skills & Experience

Background in systems architecture

Proficient in developing API's and micro services architecture

Open source savvy, possessing experience using common open source libraries/frameworks

Benefit packages for this role will start on the 31st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.