

Cloud Engineer - AWS
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This role is for a Senior Cloud Engineer - AWS in Atlanta, GA, for 12 months at a competitive pay rate. Key skills include Java, Python, AWS services, CI/CD, containerization, and preferred AWS certifications. Requires 4+ years in enterprise cloud environments.
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United States
π± - Currency
$ USD
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π° - Day rate
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ποΈ - Date discovered
July 13, 2025
π - Project duration
More than 6 months
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ποΈ - Location type
On-site
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π - Contract type
Unknown
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π - Security clearance
Unknown
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π - Location detailed
Atlanta, GA
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π§ - Skills detailed
#Agile #EC2 #Kafka (Apache Kafka) #Python #S3 (Amazon Simple Storage Service) #Deployment #Security #Infrastructure as Code (IaC) #Leadership #Microservices #RDS (Amazon Relational Database Service) #JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) #GitLab #Jenkins #Ansible #Logging #Scripting #JavaScript #Scrum #Kubernetes #DevOps #Maven #Statistics #Lambda (AWS Lambda) #Bash #Automation #Monitoring #IAM (Identity and Access Management) #Java #Public Cloud #AWS (Amazon Web Services) #Docker #Cloud #REST (Representational State Transfer)
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Title: Senior Cloud Engineer - AWS
Location: Atlanta, GA 30354
Duration: 12 Months
Top Requested skillsets:
β’ Java and Python
β’ experience with AWS services such as EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS, CloudWatch, and IAM
β’ Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tools (e.g., GitLab CI, CodePipeline)
β’ Familiarity with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
β’ Preferred AWS certifications (e.g., AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Developer, Solutions Architect β Professional)
β’ Experience with event-driven architectures and serverless computing
β’ Knowledge of data streaming technologies (e.g., Kafka, Kinesis)
β’ Exposure to Agile/Scrum methodologies
4+ years of experience in design and implementation of large enterprise public cloud environments
- AWS Certified Professional preferred
- 2+ years of hands-on experience integrating mission critical applications into AWS - Deep understanding of AWS services (IAM, VPCs, Landing Zone, EC2, ECS, KMS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Systems Manager, S3, RDS, Route53, Lambda, AWS Config, etc.)
- Experience building and securing infrastructure as code using CloudFormation, Ansible, SAM and/or similar tools - Fluency with one or more scripting/coding languages such as Java, JavaScript, REST, JSON, Python, bash
- Experience implementing and leveraging the logging and monitoring solutions
- Experience in cloud native architectures and micro-services design
- Understanding of the shared responsibility model in AWS
- Proven record of accomplishments in major enterprise level projects
- Experience in design of complex distributed systems environments
- Demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges
- Ability to clearly communicate and present to various levels of the organization
- Strong organizational and analytical skills with attention to detail
- Independent and self-motivated and very thorough worker
WHAT ELSE?
Candidate must have excellent communication skills (both written and verbal), demonstrated teamwork skills, be innovative, creative and have strong problem-solving abilities.
Responsibilities:
- Provide technical leadership and design expertise for AWS Foundation integration
- Define standards and patterns for when and how to efficiently leverage AWS services
- Lead automation of AWS integration processes and tasks
- Aid development of Public Cloud Usage Statistics and Reporting dashboards for account owners
- Develop frameworks and tools to enable dev teams to consume authorized AWS services
- Partner with the DevTools team to develop and deploy a CI/CD pipeline leveraging tools such as Gitlab, Maven and Jenkins
- Lead automation development using Ansible or CloudFormation to support acceleration of application delivery into AWS
- Ensure Security-by-Design is a foundational component of every app deployed into AWS
- Ensure enterprise monitoring standards are applied to each AWS app deployment
- Contribute to creation, management and upkeep of Intranet FAQs, User guides and Knowledgebase, standards and build documents for AWS Foundations integration
- Provide leadership in identifying new concepts, ideas, techniques, and technology assistance (best practices, guidelines and design patterns for supported technologies)
- Perform cost benefit analysis to determine best system architecture via software, hardware, internal cloud, externally hosted or other defined model
- Mentor engineering and development staff on public cloud integration design and hygiene, driving quality, consistency, resiliency, security and supportability into designs
- Partner with peer Infrastructure teams to provide enterprise class AWS integration
- Design and maintain standard templates, reference architectures, and design patterns that aid other Cloud Engineers in development of standards-based designs