Sr. AWS Cloud Engineer (Python/Terraform)

Location: Remote

 Eastern, Central and Mountain time zones.

US Citizenship is Required - Ability to pass enhanced background screen (criminal, financial, drug) for Public Trust clearance.

Description:

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

Responsibilities:

Deploy applications across multiple environments (dev, staging, prod) 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 custom 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 and improve pipeline performance and reliability

Proficient with Python, Bash, YAML/JSON, , Lambda functions

Perform daily health checks using AWS CLI or scheduled Lambda scripts to check health and log/report results

Set up monitoring thresholds, dashboards, and metrics for application and infrastructure

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

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

Maintain accurate documentation on infrastructure and procedures

Patch assessment and maintenance of infrastructure software, to include third party software patches

Develop a patch testing schedule and rollout plan to include rollback and recovery

Create and manage change records. Participate in PI planning/ 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 infrastructure 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 / production systems and respond to incidents as they arise

Required Qualifications:

BA/BS in IT, Computer Science or related field (or equivalent work experience may be accepted in lieu of the degree

+ years of IT experience. + years of experience in cloud support, infrastructure maintenance or IT operations.

Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation)

Strong proficiency in AWS Lambda (writing, deploying and, optimizing)

Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools (GibHub, GitLab, Kubernettes, 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

Must be a US Citizen.

Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance

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