AWS Engineer

AWS Engineer1

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Job Overview:

We are seeking a skilled AWS Engineer to support the buildout and scaling of CodePulse, an internal engineering metrics platform. This is a contract position for 3-6 months, focused on implementing AWS infrastructure for high-throughput metric ingestion and analytics.

The ideal candidate has a strong track record of building scalable, event-driven systems using core AWS services such as ECS Fargate, SQS, API Gateway, RDS, S3, and Elasticache. Experience working on similar data processing or pipeline-based platforms is highly desirable.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and maintain secure, auto-scaling AWS infrastructure for a container-based microservice application.
• Deploy ECS (Fargate) workloads that process messages from SQS queues and write results to RDS and S3.
• Set up and tune CloudWatch alarms, logs, and metrics for system observability and alerting.
• Configure and optimize infrastructure components: SQS, SNS, API Gateway, RDS (PostgreSQL), ElastiCache (Redis), and S3.
• Support integration with GitHub and Jira by securely handling API credentials, tokens, and webhook flows.
• Write and manage infrastructure-as-code using Terraform or AWS CDK, with support for versioning and team hand-off.
• Work with internal engineers to troubleshoot issues, optimize performance, and manage deployment workflows.

Qualifications:

• 4-6 years of hands-on experience working as an AWS DevOps or Cloud Engineer.
• Proven experience deploying and scaling services using ECS Fargate, SQS, API Gateway, RDS (Postgres), and S3.
• Experience with Redis caching using Elasticache and familiarity with tuning cache strategies.
• Strong experience with CloudWatch, including logs, alarms, and dashboard setup.
• Proficient with Terraform or AWS CDK for infrastructure automation.
• Strong understanding of VPCs, IAM roles and policies, TLS, and secure communication patterns.
• Demonstrated experience building or supporting event-driven microservices in a production setting.
• Ability to work independently in a remote, distributed team and communicate clearly.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience building internal tools or platforms with metric processing, workflow orchestration, or CI/CD integration.
• Familiarity with GitHub Actions, Docker, and container image deployment via ECR.
• Experience optimizing AWS infrastructure for cost efficiency and auto-scaling under burst loads.
• Prior experience integrating with third-party APIs like GitHub, Jira, or ServiceNow (optional but a plus).