Cloud AWS Engineer - Remote / Telecommute

Cynet Systems Inc; Minneapolis (MN); Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Senior Application Support Engineer to build and maintain applications in AWS. The role involves driving technical decisions, ensuring best practices, and automating operational tasks. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and programming in Python.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in Application support and Maintenance.
• 5+ years professional experience in AWS or other cloud architecture.
• 3+ years of programming in Python.

Responsibilities

• Builds and maintains applications for deployment and monitoring in AWS.
• Drive technical decisions and ensure best practices for secure and scalable services.
• Automate operational tasks and manage code deployment via CI/CD.

Skills

Application support

AWS

Cloud Infrastructure

Infrastructure as Code

Python

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud security

REST APIs

Education

BA/BS degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Job description

Job Description:

• Builds and maintains applications for deployment, monitoring and operations, troubleshoots and resolves issues within AWS environments including network, security, storage, and compute-related problems.
• Drive & lead technical decisions, design discussions, review artifacts and implementation of the platform / services.
• Ensure Well-architected principles and engineering best practices are followed to build a secure, high-performing, resilient and scalable services.
• Automate routine operational tasks, ensuring efficiency and reliability in day-to-day operations.
• Implement security best practices to keep data safe and control who can access resources.
• Manage code deployment and release via GitHub actions / Jenkins and help in troubleshooting issues with existing CI/CD pipeline.
• Guide the team development efforts towards successful project delivery.
• Identify and encourage areas for growth and improvement within the team.
• BA/BS degree or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of experience in Application support and Maintenance
• 5+ years professional experience in AWS or other cloud architecture.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with cloud Infrastructure and services.
• 3+ hands on Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• 3+ years of programming in Python.
• Strong experience in CI/CD pipelines and integration with in GitHub Actions / Jenkins.
• Solid knowledge of cloud security practices and AWS IAM roles/policies.
• Experience in designing / integrating REST APIs with third-party services.