Cloud DevOps Engineer

Cloud DevOps Engineer

BCforward is currently seeking a highly motivated Cloud DevOps Engineer for an opportunity- 100% Remote

Position Title: Cloud DevOps Engineer

Location: 100% Remote

Anticipated Start Date: 04/14/2025

Please note this is the target date and it is subject to change. BCforward will send official notice ahead of a confirmed start date.

Expected Duration: 6+ months contract with strong possibility of extension

Job Type: [FULL TIME (>%3D40 HRS WEEKLY) [CONTRACT], [REMOTE]

Pay Range: $45/hr. - $50/hr.

Please note that actual compensation may vary within this range due to factors such as location, experience, and job responsibilities, and does not encompass additional non-standard compensation (e.g., benefits, paid time off, per diem, etc.).

Job Description:

• With a strong working knowledge of both Private and Public Cloud, you will be the expert in these areas and work closely with clients and other parts of the business to design, implement and support innovative solutions.
• As the Cloud SME you will be expected to have either an AWS Solution Architect Associate level certification or Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer: Azure Solutions Architect accreditation.
• You'll have an expert knowledge of either AWS / Azure Cloud platforms or a good working knowledge of Cloud solutions.

Responsibilities

• Provide direct analysis and recommendations associated with the implementation or migration of specific applications to cloud services
• Implementing and maintaining cloud management solutions including initial and ongoing configuration of related automation, notifications, and reporting capabilities.
• Work with a variety of legacy applications and platforms and work with application teams to implement or migrate associated components to cloud services.
• Identify and troubleshoot cloud service events and issues as well as work with cloud service providers to efficiently solve issues or implement workarounds.

Skills & Experience

• Deep experience with targeted cloud environment (AWS, Azure or GCP), Infrastructure as a service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and other native capabilities.
• Hands-on experience architecting, designing, implementing, and supporting targeted cloud-based applications and solutions.
• Hands-on experience in all aspects of targeted cloud computing (compute, CI/CD, containers, storage, platforms, data, networking and security)
• Knowledge of networking and web standards such as DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, HTTP, web security, switches, routers, load balancers, firewalls are desired
• Minimum 3+ years of hands-on experiences in provisioning and high level of understanding on AWS related services. (especially ECS, SQS, MQ, Lambda).
• Deep understanding of AWS/Azure/GCP network components.
• High level understanding on Terraform.
• CI/CD Tools - any industry standard tool is acceptable but knowledge in YAML scripting is a must.
• Microservices provisioning and application deployments using EKS, ECS (any of these).
• Experience with Serverless components, especially Lambda
• Experience of configuration management - Ansible, Puppet, Chef or Salt stack.
• Programming experiences (Python with boto3 preferred)

Nice to Have:

• API experience (Kong / API Gateway)
• Experience with Kafka / Solace message brokers.

Benefits:

BCforward offers all eligible employees a comprehensive benefits package including, but not limited to major medical, HSA, dental, vision, employer-provided group life, voluntary life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, and 401k.

Keywords:

AWS, Azure, Microservices

About BCforward:

Founded in 1998 on the idea that industry leaders needed a professional service, and workforce management expert, to fuel the development and execution of core business and technology strategies, BCforward is a Black-owned firm providing unique solutions supporting value capture and digital product delivery needs for organizations around the world. Headquartered in Indianapolis, IN with an Offshore Development Center in Hyderabad, India, BCforward' s 6,000 consultants support more than 225 clients globally.

BCforward champions the power of human potential to help companies transform, accelerate, and scale. Guided by our core values of People-Centric, Optimism, Excellence, Diversity, and Accountability, our professionals have helped our clients achieve their strategic goals for more than 25 years. Our strong culture and clear values have enabled BCforward to become a market leader and best in class place to work.

BCforward is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against based on disability.

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This posting is not an offer of employment. All applicants applying for positions in the United States must be legally authorized to work in the United States. The submission of intentionally false or fraudulent information in response to this posting may render the applicant ineligible for the position. Any subsequent offer of employment will be considered employment at-will regardless of the anticipated assignment duration.

Interested candidates please send resume in Word format Please reference job code 237310 when responding to this ad.

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