AWS Cloud Engineer - McLean, United States - Tandym Group

    Tandym Group
    Tandym Group McLean, United States

    2 weeks ago

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    Description

    An education tech company in Virginia is currently seeking a new AWS Cloud Engineer to join their growing team in McLean. In this role, the AWS Cloud Engineer will be responsible for managing cloud-based infrastructure and various AWS services, including networking, security, compute, resource/stack and monitoring.

    ***This is a Hybrid opportunity requiring the qualified professional to work onsite at least 2 days a week.***

    ***Candidates from Colorado, New York, and California WILL NOT be considered.***

    ***VISA sponsorship is not available ***
    Responsibilities:

    The AWS Cloud Engineer will:

    • Maintain and monitor AWS infrastructure
    • Work closely with system and software architects to create new cloud infrastructure for new applications
    • Implement and maintain AWS securities in all production and development environments
    • Assist development team in capacity planning across all environments
    • Work with DevOps on deployment strategies
    • Implement and provide monitoring capabilities for all AWS
    • Set up alerts and reports used by other teams for operation support
    • Provide and maintain appropriate level of cloud infrastructure access to other roles like Developer, DevOps and QA
    • Work collaboratively with other roles like DevOps, Architects, Developers and QA
    • Work with development teams to understand the code, its dependencies, and the infrastructure on which they run
    Qualifications:
    • 7+ years in Cloud experience; 5+ years of AWS experience.
    • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and/or a related ifeld
    • AWS Certification or Solution Architecture certification
    • Experience with Unix/Linux environment.
    • Experience with Git source control service such as CodeCommit
    • Experience deploying and administering CI/CD tools such as CodeBuild, CodePipeline, Jenkins
    • Experience with relational database, e.g. PostgreSQL, Redshift and NoSQL document database (e.g. MongoDB, DynamoDB)
    • Experience with AWS Lambda, Step Functions, EventBridge, RDS, S3, SQS, CloudWatch, CodeCommit, ECS
    • Solid understanding of Infrastructure as Code
    • Solid understanding of strategies for providing high availability and security
    • Solid understanding of Docker for containerization
    • Strong understanding and experience operating in an agile development environment
    • Great interpersonal skills
    • Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
    • Strong attention to detail
    • Highly organized
    Desired Skills:
    • Multi cloud experience
    • CDK experience in JavaScript or Typescript