AWS Cloud Engineer

BCforward is currently seeking a highly motivated AWS Cloud Engineer for an opportunity in Columbus, OH 43240

Position Title: AWS Cloud Engineer

Location: Wilmington, DE 19803

Anticipated Start Date: Tentative Start Date

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

Expected Duration:

Job Type: Contract, [On-Site]

Pay Range: [$75] to [$80]

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:

Position Description

Position: AWS Cloud Engineer

Location: Wilmington-DE- Onsite

Duration: 6 Months contract to Hire

Job responsibilities

• Lead complex public cloud migrations, proactively identify potential issues, and implement risk mitigation strategies to ensure the success of multiple cloud initiatives.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to deliver robust, cloud-based solutions that improve customer experiences.
• Take ownership of platform issues from end to end, resolve challenges related to platform build and performance on AWS Cloud, and ensure high-quality, bug-free deliverables.
• Develop strategies and provide guidance to product teams on public cloud onboarding standards and best practices, ensuring migrations are successful and compliant with all regulatory requirements.
• Drive the adoption and effective use of Amazon's utility computing services (e.g., AWS EC2, S3, RDS, CloudFront, EFS, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, EKS, ECS, MFTS, API Gateway, VPC Peering).
• Design resilient, secure, and high-performance platforms in the public cloud, following best practices.
• Measure and optimize system performance, anticipate customer needs, and drive continuous innovation. Provide operational support and engineering for the public cloud platform, troubleshoot and optimize systems, and automate routine tasks.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to develop practical solutions and ensure positive user experiences at every touchpoint.
• Manage costs by designing and optimizing public cloud platforms and technologies. Organize and lead game days, resiliency tests, and chaos engineering exercises.
• Apply expertise in programming languages such as Java, Python, SQL, Node, Go, and Scala; work with open source RDBMS and NoSQL databases; utilize container orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes; and leverage a wide range of AWS services.

  Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5 years applied experience
• A strong understanding of business technology drivers and their impact on architecture design, performance and monitoring, best practices
• Design and building web environments on AWS, which includes working with services like EC2, ELB, RDS, DynamoDB, EKS, ECS, MFTS, SQS/SNS, S3 and Route53
• Proficiency in few modern technologies such as: Java version 8+, Spring Boot, Restful Microservices, AWS or Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes.
• Experience using DevOps tools in a cloud environment, such as Ansible, Artifactory, Docker, GitHub, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Maven, and Sonar Qube
• Experience using monitoring solutions like CloudWatch, Prometheus, Datadog, Splunk, Dynatrace
• Experience and knowledge of writing Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), using tools like CloudFormation or Terraform
• Experience with one or more public cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, Azure
• Experience with high volume, SLA critical applications and their interdependencies with other applications and databases
• Experience with high volume, mission critical applications, and building upon messaging and or event-driven architectures
• Keen understanding of financial industry and their IT systems and optimization of Public Cloud expenses

Skills (required):

• Java (must) / Python (intermediate)
• DevOps experience with AWS - Should have experience with all AWS services
• IaC - Terraform / CloudFormation - needs to understand it
• Microservices

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.

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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