Our client, a top-tier IT consulting company, has partnered with a leading Financial Institution in Dallas to hire a Senior Cloud Engieer .
Responsibilities :
- You are a hands on Cloud engineer who will focus on migrating workloads to the public cloud focusing on AWS
- You have working knowledge of AWS services and design principles
- You are a hands-on Typescript focused developer who will focus on implementing reference patterns in CDK / Typescript for use across the organization.
- You are a cloud enthusiast with a desire to learn how to architect production grade scalable AWS CDK patterns that clients can use across the organization to safely get to production and manage day 2 operations.
- You are passionate about developer experience and bringing new ideas, perspective and customer focused solutions to improve the cloud ecosystem.
- You thrive in a multi-project environment, dealing with different applications and teams to understand their challenges and goals in moving to the public cloud
- You are experienced in architecting and deploying multi-tiered applications which are highly available, resilient, with secure cloud architectures
- You are experienced in designing and building frameworks and utilities that help accelerate the adoption of cloud across the organization
- You proactively manage issues and risks through the delivery lifecycle
- You have exceptional analytical skills, able to apply knowledge and experience in decision-making to arrive at creative and commercial solutions
- You possess a strong desire to learn and contribute solutions and ideas to a broad team
- You are independent and comfortable in a fast paced, ambiguous and often multi-directional work environment
- Manage multiple tasks and use sound judgment when prioritizing
- Collaborate with a globally-distributed cross functional team in building customer-centric products
- Build services to integrate on-premises systems with public cloud providers and software libraries to provide consistent, secure, and ready-to-consume patterns for application development teams using public cloud services
- Collaborate across teams on feature design and problem solving
- Manage the full lifecycle of software components, from requirements through design, testing, development, release and demise
- Partner with colleagues from across Engineering to ensure an outstanding, useable, and unobtrusive experience for development teams building and deploying their applications and infrastructure
- Help to communicate and promote best practices for public cloud application development and infrastructure management across the firm
Basic Qualifications :
10+ years of relevant professional experience (more experienced professionals are desired) with at least 5+ years of familiarity with AWS servicesBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).Familiarity with disciplines of enterprise software development such as configuration and release management, source code and version controls along with operating considerations such as monitoringExperience with CI / CD tools (e.g., GitLab CI / CD, AWS CodePipeline, Bazel, Gradle).Proficiency in infrastructure-as-code (IaC) methodologies utilizing AWS CloudFormation templates developed and deployed through AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) with TypeScript implementation.Familiarity with AWS services such as ECS Fargate, Lambdas, Step Functions, S3, RDS and MSK.Proficiency in scripting and automation using Python, Bash, or similar languages.Experience with Javascript / Typescript / NodeProficient using relational and NoSQL database technologies such as DynamoDB, MongoDB and Aurora PostgresExperience building transactional systems and strong understanding of software architectureStrong written and verbal communication skillsBasic understanding of monitoring, tracing and logging tools (e.g., CloudWatch, ELK Stack, Prometheus, Zipkin).General knowledge of networking, security, and system administration in cloud environments.Skilled in implementing architectural governanceAbility to establish trusted partnerships with product leads, and executive level stakeholdersComfort with agile operating modelsAdditional Qualifications :
AWS certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, AWS Solutions Architect - Associate).Experience with Cloud migrationsUnderstanding of Solution Engineering practicesFluency in AWS CDK, Typescript and CloudFormationUnderstanding of microservices architecture and serverless computing.Basic experience with performance tuning and cost optimization in AWS.Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.Good communication and documentation skills.Preferred Soft Skills :
Willingness to learn and adapt to new tools and technologies.Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.