Application Cloud Engineer

Eliassen Group; Topeka (KS); Remote; USD 90,000 - 96,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

401k with company matching

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking an Application Cloud Engineer for a remote contract role focusing on AWS-based applications and infrastructure. You will maintain, enhance, and secure cloud solutions, collaborating with development, operations, and security teams.

The position includes on-call rotations for 24/7 production support and a strong benefits package for W2 consultants. Candidates should have extensive AWS experience, IaC skills with Terraform, and Kubernetes expertise.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in IT with degree or 6+ years with MS/MA
• Hands-on AWS experience with deployment strategies
• Familiarity with image registries (ECR) and container CI/CD pipelines
• Proficiency in Python, Bash, YAML/JSON, Node.js, and Lambda
• Hands-on CI/CD tooling and Kubernetes experience
• Knowledge of disaster recovery planning and implementation
• Cloud certifications such as AWS DevOpsEngineer or Solutions Architect Associate
• Understanding of autoscaling, load balancing, and monitoring

Responsibilities

• Provision and manage AWS infrastructure using IaC (Terraform)
• Manage Amazon EKS clusters, upgrades, node groups
• Configure VPC, security groups, and ALB/NLB ingress for EKS
• Administer Kubernetes objects: deployments, services, configmaps, secrets
• Monitor systems with CloudWatch and observability tools
• Containerize and deploy with ECS and Lambda
• Ensure consistent deployments across dev, staging, prod
• Troubleshoot deployment issues and optimize pipelines
• Daily health checks using AWS CLI or Lambda scripts
• Collaborate with Dev and DevOps for stateless, fault-tolerant apps
• Improve ECS scalability, performance, and observability
• Implement auto-scaling and rolling deployments
• Support feature branches, MR validation, and artifact promotion
• Enforce pipeline security and automated code scanning
• Remediate vulnerabilities at OS, container, and dependencies
• Plan and test regional failover and recovery runbooks
• Meet RTO/RPO requirements
• Diagnose production issues across cloud services and CI/CD
• Follow incident response playbooks and improve alerts
• Log incidents and changes in tracking systems

Skills

AWS

Terraform

Kubernetes

Python

CI/CD

CloudWatch

Education

BS/BA in Computer Science or related

MS/MA

PhD (optional)

HS Diploma or equivalent

Tools

Terraform

Amazon ECR

CI/CD pipelines

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS CLI

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.