AWS Cloud Engineer

Overview:Our client, a software company provided SaaS based solutions focused on supplier diversity, labor compliance, and grant management, is seeking to hire an AWS Cloud Engineer to their team.Requirements:6+ years of experience as an AWS Cloud EngineerExperience managing large scale SaaS applications hosted in AWSExtensive experience with AWS, VPC, EC2 (Windows & Linux), S3, DNS Route 53, Lambda, RDSCI/CD experience with TeamCity, Jenkins, or Azure DevOpsApplication monitoring experience with Azure App Insights, Cloudwatch, New Relic, Dynatrace, DataDog, or Prometheus with GrafanaPlusses:AWS certificationsExperience with EKS, ECS, and CloudFormationExperience with scripting and IaC tools: Linux Shell Scripting, Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Python, Shell/PowerShell, etc.Experience migrating from Azure to AWSAWS certificationsExperience with Kubernetes including identifying and remediating vulnerabilities, performing patches and upgrades, and managing multiple clusters in a production environment.Experience implementing security related tooling and scanning (Web App Firewall, SAST, DAST).Responsibilities:Responsible for the day-to-day operations of Cloud production, pre-production and internal environments infrastructure, ensuring systems reliability, performance, high availability, and security through proper response to incidents, events, and problems reported by customers as well as monitoring & observability tools.Analyze observability data, monitor server and application logs and make recommendations to improve stability and performance of cloud environments.Participate in on-call rotation, monitor slack channels, monitoring systems generated alerts, dashboards and take necessary action to resolve requests in timely manner within defined SLAs.Document, influence, and implement change management, security compliance, backup strategies, disaster recovery, and incident management procedures that are compliant with product and industry best practices and adhere to regulations. Including managing tasks via JIRA tickets, Email approvals, reviews, etc.Participate in the design and execution of innovative and scalable architectures across areas of product expertise. Including infrastructure, data flow, build plans, pipelines, security, monitoring and alerting, standards and methods for large-scale systems. Document the implemented solution.Implement and manage end-to-end scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS, including AWS services such as EC2, S3, EKS, RDS, Lambda, VPC, Availability Zones, Security Groups, ELB/ALB, CloudFront, CloudWatch, and others in areas of product expertise. Learn and implement new technologies to support application innovation with Kubernetes and microservices. Follow technical specifications and directions from senior engineers.Design, implement, and maintain automated workflows to ensure cost efficiency and performance for cloud infrastructure provisioning, monitoring, and scaling using IaC tools like Terraform, or AWS CloudFormation.Identify and implement cost saving options.Implement best practices for cloud resource management, including resources allocations, cost tracking, and identity and access management.Optimize cloud costs by monitoring expenditures, identify cost-saving opportunities, and proposing adjustments to ensure efficient resource utilization.Utilize automation tools and continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment (CI/CD) processes. Coordinate deployments across multiple lower environments up to production in areas of product expertise.Implement and optimize security controls that follow SOC 2 procedures such as patch and software updates, key rotation, vulnerability scanning, Hardware/Software Inventory, Ports and Protocols review, vulnerability/threat assessment, maintaining and monitoring Cloudwatch, and Log management in areas of product expertise.Participate in SOC 2 audits, risk management initiatives and provide best practice guidance on customer implementations and security responses.Salary/Compensation:up to 150k base depending on experienceBenefits:Medical, dental and vision coverage effective on the first day of employmentMultiple plan options available for medical insurance. High deductible 5000 plan is 100% employer paid for employees and dependents. Alternate plans are offered with a small cost-sharing with employer and employee.401k retirement fund matches 100% up to 4% of employee pre-tax salary contributions. Eligibility after 3 months of service with an immediate employer vesting!Employer-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance.Employer-paid life insurance with an option to purchase additional coverage paid by the employee.Annual allowance of 15 PTO days. (prorated for new hires based on hire date).11 paid standard holidays during each calendar year and 1 floating holiday.