Senior Cloud Engineer
- Vega Intellisoft
51 Days Ago
130000-150000 per Annum
NA
Princeton-NJ
9-12 Years
Required Skills: AWS Solutions Architect SAA-C02 Certification, Architecting cloud solutions using VPCs, Direct Connect, IAM, AWS Control Tower, RCPs, SCPs, Security Hub, AWS EKS, Load Balancers, EC2 Instances, S3 Storage, Direct Connect Gateways, VPCs, RDS, DynamoDB, Network Firewalls, ECS
Job Description
Role Description and Remit
This is a hands-on-keyboard, highly technical, IC role. In this role, you will own the buildout of applications and infrastructure in AWS and engineering of hybrid environments connecting our on-prem and cloud in a secure, resilient manner.
This role will work in close collaboration with network engineering, InfoSec and application teams with a remit of a cloud-first thinking and support both on-prem and cloud roadmaps.
Strong written and oral communication skills are essential and candidates should be self-directed and motivated to work in a fast paced, team-oriented environment.
Responsibilities ·
- AWS Solutions Architect SAA-C02 Certification required · Deep experience is expected on IAM
- Architecting cloud solutions using VPCs, Direct Connect, IAM, AWS Control Tower.
- Experience with multi-account implementations and RCPs/SCPs (Resource and Service Control Policies) is highly desirable.
- Working with Security Hub and establishing best practices around remediation and ongoing observability
- Partner with the software architects and network engineering in designing and improving CI/CD processes, and using infrastructure-as-code
- Troubleshoot incidents, identify root causes, fix and document problems, implement preventive measures
- Working with the AWS CDK IaC frameworks in Python or NodeJS is required
- Participate in applying SRE principles such as availability SLIs, error budgets, incident reviews, alerting and be part of an on-call ROTA Location Princeton, NJ
- Organizational Structure The “Senior Cloud Engineer – AWS” role will report directly to the Director of DevOps in Business Systems Development.
Qualifications Expected ·
- Three or more years of experience in architecting, designing, developing, and implementing cloud solutions on AWS platforms ·
- Familiarity with implementing a hybrid networking architecture in a highly regulated environment– such as establish data perimeters
- AWS EKS, Load Balancers, EC2 Instances, S3 Storage, Direct Connect Gateways, VPCs, RDS, DynamoDB, Network Firewalls, ECS
- Experience with Cloudwatch Logs and Alarms and building observability around the AWS solutions
- Experience with Kubernetes
- including familiarity with Networking and Storage
- Strong Linux background and containerization principles - OCI, Docker or packer/podman
- Experience with Kafka and managing Kafka clusters are desirable
- Experience with Jenkins or other CI/CD framework is desirable
- Knowledge of web services, APIs, REST and RPC calls
- Prometheus, Alert Manager, Splunk, Loki and Grafana is a plus
- Experience in GitOps for kubernetes – Flux, ArgoCD and tools like Kustomize and helm
- Experience with Shell Scripts, Python SDLC
- Java or NodeJS/React programming is a big plus
