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TheStaffed

Senior Cloud Engineer

TheStaffed, Dallas, Texas, United States, 75215

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Our client, a top-tier IT consulting company, has partnered with a leading Financial Institution in Dallas to hire a

Senior Cloud Engieer .

Responsibilities

: • You are a hands on Cloud engineer who will focus on migrating workloads to the public cloud focusing on AWS • You have working knowledge of AWS services and design principles • You are a hands-on Typescript focused developer who will focus on implementing reference patterns in CDK / Typescript for use across the organization. • You are a cloud enthusiast with a desire to learn how to architect production grade scalable AWS CDK patterns that clients can use across the organization to safely get to production and manage day 2 operations. • You are passionate about developer experience and bringing new ideas, perspective and customer focused solutions to improve the cloud ecosystem. • You thrive in a multi-project environment, dealing with different applications and teams to understand their challenges and goals in moving to the public cloud • You are experienced in architecting and deploying multi-tiered applications which are highly available, resilient, with secure cloud architectures • You are experienced in designing and building frameworks and utilities that help accelerate the adoption of cloud across the organization • You proactively manage issues and risks through the delivery lifecycle • You have exceptional analytical skills, able to apply knowledge and experience in decision-making to arrive at creative and commercial solutions • You possess a strong desire to learn and contribute solutions and ideas to a broad team • You are independent and comfortable in a fast paced, ambiguous and often multi-directional work environment • Manage multiple tasks and use sound judgment when prioritizing • Collaborate with a globally-distributed cross functional team in building customer-centric products • Build services to integrate on-premises systems with public cloud providers and software libraries to provide consistent, secure, and ready-to-consume patterns for application development teams using public cloud services • Collaborate across teams on feature design and problem solving • Manage the full lifecycle of software components, from requirements through design, testing, development, release and demise • Partner with colleagues from across Engineering to ensure an outstanding, useable, and unobtrusive experience for development teams building and deploying their applications and infrastructure • Help to communicate and promote best practices for public cloud application development and infrastructure management across the firm

Basic Qualifications

: • 10+ years of relevant professional experience (more experienced professionals are desired) with at least 5+ years of familiarity with AWS services • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience). • Familiarity with disciplines of enterprise software development such as configuration and release management, source code and version controls along with operating considerations such as monitoring • Experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., GitLab CI/CD, AWS CodePipeline, Bazel, Gradle). • Proficiency in infrastructure-as-code (IaC) methodologies utilizing AWS CloudFormation templates developed and deployed through AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) with TypeScript implementation. • Familiarity with AWS services such as ECS Fargate, Lambdas, Step Functions, S3, RDS and MSK. • Proficiency in scripting and automation using Python, Bash, or similar languages. • Experience with Javascript / Typescript / Node • Proficient using relational and NoSQL database technologies such as DynamoDB, MongoDB and Aurora Postgres • Experience building transactional systems and strong understanding of software architecture • Strong written and verbal communication skills • Basic understanding of monitoring, tracing and logging tools (e.g., CloudWatch, ELK Stack, Prometheus, Zipkin). • General knowledge of networking, security, and system administration in cloud environments. • Skilled in implementing architectural governance • Ability to establish trusted partnerships with product leads, and executive level stakeholders • Comfort with agile operating models

Additional Qualifications: • AWS certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, AWS Solutions Architect - Associate). • Experience with Cloud migrations • Understanding of Solution Engineering practices • Fluency in AWS CDK, Typescript and CloudFormation • Understanding of microservices architecture and serverless computing. • Basic experience with performance tuning and cost optimization in AWS. • Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work collaboratively in a team environment. • Good communication and documentation skills.

Preferred Soft Skills

: • Willingness to learn and adapt to new tools and technologies. • Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.