Principal Cloud Engineer

Job Title: Principal Cloud Engineer Location: Remote Mode : Contract (6 Months) Job Description: Seeking an experienced, lead level, cloud developer and solution architect with the ability to evaluate, estimate, design, implement and document cloud centric application architectures and deployment methodologies, and generally contribute to cloud enablement and cost optimization efforts while promoting cloud architecture and DevOps best-practices. The candidate must be able to materially contribute to the design and implementation of varied application solutions, infrastructure-as-code (IaC), operational capabilities and DevSecOps requirements. The candidate must understand development and deployment workflows and be capable of providing actionable guidance and executing on application re-factoring efforts. This candidate will be expected to lead delivery efforts, mentor team members, and work in collaboration with other teams to meet technical requirements and committed timelines. Required Skill Set / Experience: AWS - solutioning and deploying applications in AWS Lead Experience in a role demonstrating ability to own and drive deliverables with minimal technical guidance AWS Lambda / Step Functions (serverless architectures) AWS ECS / Fargate (proficiency with containerized deployments, e.g. Docker) AWS RDS (relational and NoSQL database design/management, data management) Networking (strong understanding of general and AWS virtual networking) Cloud security and recovery Web services and application programming interfaces (APIs) AWS data streaming/messaging services (e.g. Kinesis, Data Firehose, SQS, SNS) Terraform and CloudFormation CI/CD automation using GitHub/GitLab Implementation of auto-scaling, cost-management techniques, and operational monitoring Experience architecting for both Linux and Windows environments