Sr Software Cloud Engineer

Position: Sr Software Engineer Location: 100% Remote Duration: 6-12 month contract to hire Pay Range: 70-85 an hour on W2 Required Experience • 5+ years as a software engineer with demonstrated full-stack capability and architectural influence. • Proven experience designing and evaluating modern AWS architectures across compute, networking, security, storage, serverless, containers, and data services. • Strong proficiency in: • Terraform (required) for Infrastructure-as-Code and standardized cloud provisioning. • CI/CD pipelines, DevOps tooling, and cloud automation. • System design, distributed systems, refactoring strategies, and API design. • Ability to decompose complex legacy systems into clear modernization paths aligned with business value. • Experience providing effort estimates, TCO analysis, and ROI insights for modernization and migration options. • Excellent communication skills—capable of presenting detailed technical findings and high-level summaries to diverse audiences. Technical Breadth • Expertise with modern programming languages and frameworks such as C#, .NET Core, Node.js, TypeScript, Go, or similar. • Strong experience with Docker, Kubernetes/EKS, and containerization workflows. • Proficiency with relational and NoSQL data systems. • Familiarity with automated testing, observability, reliability engineering, and secure-by-design practices. • Ansible experience highly preferred for configuration automation, deployment consistency, and environment standardization.