Cloud Engineer

Principal responsibilities:

• Maintain the AWS resource library using the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) written in typescript
• Write tests and assertions to harden the resiliency of the code
• Administer cloud network resources including subnets, routes, DNS, load balancers and firewalls
• Troubleshoot Microsoft .NET application performance and functionality
• Identify and implement opportunities for quality improvement using test automation
• Administer and interpret results from performance tools such as X-Ray, CloudWatch Logs, and Dynatrace APM to promote continuous improvement of products to our customers
• Optimize cloud configuration from both a technical and budgetary perspective
• Review and enhance runbooks, knowledge base documentation, and log defects
• Enforce security tool actions for both short term remediation and prevent recurrence
• Identify and remediate application performance and database performance on AWS EC2, Lambda, and RDS (Relational Database Service) instances
• Assist with moving workloads from on premise data center to cloud
• Configure and maintain Microsoft .NET workloads running on both EC2 instances and AWS Lambda
• Learn and stay up to date with current AWS best practices and service offerings.

Required Skills:

• A Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college or university with a major in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or other related scientific or technical discipline or three (3) years of equivalent experience in a related field
• AWS Certification

Preferred Experience:

• At least five (5) years of experience administering Amazon Web Services
• At least two (2) years of experience administering serverless workloads
• AWS Certification in one or more of the following
• Advanced Networking
• DevOps Engineer Professional
• Solutions Architect - Professional
• At least one (2) year of writing and supporting AWS CDK code
• An advanced knowledge of typescript development
• An advanced knowledge of .NET application development
• At least two (2) years of experience building CI/CD automation processes
• Experience with software development life cycle (SDLC) and agile/iterative methodologies
• Experience in large-scale migrations such Data Center to Cloud
• Strong technical communication skills, both verbal and written
• Excel at being a team player who excels at knowledge sharing and understanding the interpersonal aspects of working in a team.