Application Cloud Engineer

Eliassen Group; Lansing (MI); Remote; USD 90,000 - 96,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits

401k with company matching

Life Insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking an Application Cloud Engineer for remote, contract work to maintain and enhance AWS-based applications and infrastructure. You will collaborate with development, operations, and security teams to ensure scalability, performance, and security, including on-call rotations for 24/7 production systems.

Responsibilities include provisioning AWS infra with IaC, managing EKS, configuring networking, and deploying via ECS and Lambda, across dev/stage/prod environments. U.S.

Qualifications

• 8+ years IT experience with advanced degree options.
• Hands-on AWS deployment and infrastructure as code.
• Experience with container orchestration and CI/CD pipelines.
• Security clearance readiness and federal contracting familiarity.
• Proficient in Python, Bash, YAML/JSON, Node.js, and Lambda.

Responsibilities

• Provision and manage AWS infra with Terraform.
• Manage EKS clusters and node groups; configure VPC/networking.
• Administer Kubernetes objects including deployments and RBAC.
• Monitor production with CloudWatch; troubleshoot incidents.
• Containerize and deploy apps using ECS and Lambda.
• Ensure cross-environment consistency (dev/stage/prod).
• Automate health checks, log results, and improve pipelines.
• Support on-call rotations and incident response.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Python

CI/CD

Docker

Linux

Cloud security

On-call support

Education

BS/BA degree

MS/MA degree

PhD

HS Diploma/equivalent

Tools

Amazon ECR

CI/CD pipelines

Kubernetes

Terraform

AWS

Docker

ECS

Lambda

Job description

Application Cloud Engineer

Anywhere

Type: Contract

Category: Architecture

Industry: Government

Workplace Type: Remote

Standard Hours: Open

Reference ID: JN -092026-108721

Date Posted: 09/21/2026

Shortcut: http://careers.eliassen.com/8deixH

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Our client seeks an Application Cloud Engineer to maintain and enhance AWS-based applications and infrastructure. The role collaborates with development, operations, and security teams to ensure scalability, performance, and security. The engineer participates in on-call rotations to support 24/7 production systems and incident response.

Due to federal security clearance requirements, applicant must be a United States Citizen or Permanent Resident with an active Public Trust clearance. Due to client requirements, 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: $65.00 to $70.00/hr. w2

Responsibilities:

• Provision and manage AWS infrastructure using IaC tools such as Terraform.

• Manage Amazon EKS including cluster provisioning, upgrades, and node groups.

• Configure EKS networking including VPC CNI, security groups for pods, and ALB/NLB ingress controllers.

• Administer Kubernetes objects including deployments, services, configmaps, secrets, and RBAC.

• Monitor and troubleshoot production systems using CloudWatch and related observability tools.

• Containerize and deploy applications using ECS and Lambda.

• Deploy across dev, staging, and prod environments to ensure consistency and stability.

• Monitor deployments and system health using CloudWatch and other tools.

• Troubleshoot deployment issues and improve pipeline performance and reliability.

• Perform daily health checks using AWS CLI or scheduled Lambda scripts and log/report results.

• Collaborate with development and DevOps teams to ensure stateless and fault-tolerant applications.

• Implement enhancements to ECS environments focusing on scalability, performance, and observability.

• Improve container orchestration with auto-scaling, rolling deployments, and upgrades.

• Support feature branch testing, merge request validation, and artifact promotion workflows.

• Enforce pipeline security and compliance through automated code scanning and approval gates.

• Remediate OS-level, container, and dependency vulnerabilities.

• Orchestrate failover and restoration of ECS/EKS services, Lambda functions, databases, and related components.

• Test and document regional failover playbooks and recovery runbooks.

• Meet RTO and RPO requirements.

• Diagnose and resolve production issues across cloud services, containers, databases, and CI/CD pipelines.

• Follow and improve incident response playbooks, escalation procedures, and communications.

• Automate operational tasks and improve alert accuracy to reduce on-call fatigue.

• Log incidents, changes, and operational metrics in tracking systems.

Experience Requirements:

• Minimum of 8 years with BS/BA, or 6 years with MS/MA, or 3 years with PhD, or 12 years with HS Diploma/equivalent.

• 3 years of IT experience.

• Hands‑on AWS experience with cloud deployment strategies.

• Familiarity with image registries such as Amazon ECR and CI/CD pipelines for containers.

• Proficiency with Python, Bash, YAML/JSON, Node.js, and Lambda functions.

• Hands‑on experience with CI/CD tools and Kubernetes.

• Knowledge of disaster recovery planning and implementation.

• AWS or relevant cloud certifications such as AWS DevOps Engineer or Solutions Architect Associate.

• Understanding of cloud architecture, autoscaling, and load balancing.

• Proficiency with monitoring, alerting, and logging tools.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

• Analytical and problem‑solving skills.

• US citizenship and eligibility to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.

• Preferred: Familiarity with Docker, ECS, Kubernetes, and ITIL or incident management frameworks.