Cloud Engineer (Java, AWS)

Our client, an industry leader in financial services and investment management, has an excellent opportunity for a Cloud Engineer to work on a 12+month contract opportunity. Work will be a hybrid on-site/remote schedule in Westlake, TX. The Cloud Engineer will assist in leading initiatives in Customer and Account management & and Security Master and Pricing applications with a diverse scope and will act as the main interface between end users, product owners, and the information technology organization. Due to client requirement, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance. Rate: $70 - $76 / hr. w2 Responsibilities: • Provide support through deep technical knowledge of distributed systems, understanding of business processes and system workflows. • Closely work with the Engineering leads, Enablement leads and participate in research to identify effective new solutions design. • We combine the software development skills with native tooling from cloud providers and enterprise tooling to help develop cloud centric ecosystem employing modern architecture and services. • Proven experience with sophisticated architectural builds and technology initiatives • Passion for technology and can stay on top of the newest technology trends • Highly motivated teammate with strong communication, and organization skills • Experience working in agile development environment • Hands on experience in Test Driven Development Requirements: • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent • DevOps CI/CD tools like Terraform, Jenkins • Develop/Implement automated test cases using BDD, TDD testing framework (JEST, Cucumber, Mocha, Selenium, Istanbul) • Good understanding of Digital Certificate management • Application development on Public Cloud - AWS Managed Services, ECS, EC2, EKS, Serverless Framework/Lambda, API Gateway, Step Function, S3, ALB, Route53 • Containerization technology like Docker (deployed on ECS, EKS) • REST API development using Java, Spring Boot, NodeJS • Experience with Database: Oracle, NoSQL Database (DynamoDB) • Repository Management – Github/Bitbucket • Support tools like Splunk/Datadog/Kibana Please be advised- If anyone reaches out to you about an open position connected with Eliassen Group, please confirm that they have an Eliassen.com email address and never provide personal or financial information to anyone who is not clearly associated with Eliassen Group. If you have any indication of fraudulent activity, please contact InfoSec@eliassen.com. Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range. W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality. JOB ID: JN -102025-104187