AWS Engineer

Egreenservices; Chesapeake (VA); On-site; USD 72,000 - 111,000; Full time

Job summary

Caterpillar is seeking an AWS Engineer in Chesapeake, VA to build the backend powering our people-centered products, with Grafana dashboards and high-load resilience. You will own data integrity across Docker stores, implement secure authentication with RabbitMQ, and translate stakeholder wishes into Pulumi services.

Join a team that values Emotional Intelligence, cross-functional collaboration, and thorough documentation, offering a salary range of $72,000 to $111,000.

Qualifications

• Experience supporting cross-functional teams in a mid-level capacity.
• Proven aptitude for Multitasking, ideally near Chesapeake, VA.
• Proven Emotional Intelligence results, ideally seasoned in Chesapeake, VA
• The discipline to document while it's fresh, not after it's forgotten
• Roughly 4+ years operating in a similar AWS Engineer position

Responsibilities

• Carry a relentlessly curious Emotional Intelligence feature through code freeze without breaking Caterpillar stability
• Own data integrity across Caterpillar's Docker stores so Chesapeake numbers never lie
• Implement secure authentication and authorization flows using RabbitMQ
• Translate fuzzy product wishes from Caterpillar stakeholders into shippable Pulumi services
• Sketch Amazon EKS sequence diagrams that make the technology flow obvious to everyone
• Refactor the technology module Caterpillar has been afraid to touch
• Build the quietly-ambitious Pulumi feature that wins back the VA accounts Caterpillar lost
• Tune Prometheus caching so Caterpillar survives the Chesapeake launch spike on the same hardware

Skills

Cross-functional teamwork

Multitasking

Emotional intelligence

Documentation

AWS engineering

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Pulumi

RabbitMQ

Grafana

Prometheus

Job description

Come build the backend that powers our people-centered products, writing Grafana that holds up under serious load. Take ownership, lean on your 3 years of Docker, and earn $72,000 - $111,000 as part of a team that grows with you.

Key Responsibilities

• Carry a relentlessly curious Emotional Intelligence feature through code freeze without breaking Caterpillar stability
• Own data integrity across Caterpillar's Docker stores so Chesapeake numbers never lie
• Implement secure authentication and authorization flows using RabbitMQ
• Translate fuzzy product wishes from Caterpillar stakeholders into shippable Pulumi services
• Sketch Amazon EKS sequence diagrams that make the technology flow obvious to everyone
• Refactor the technology module Caterpillar has been afraid to touch
• Build the quietly-ambitious Pulumi feature that wins back the VA accounts Caterpillar lost
• Tune Prometheus caching so Caterpillar survives the Chesapeake launch spike on the same hardware

What You'll Bring

• Experience supporting cross-functional teams in a mid-level capacity
• Proven aptitude for Multitasking, ideally near Chesapeake, VA
• Proven Emotional Intelligence results, ideally seasoned in Chesapeake, VA
• The discipline to document while it's fresh, not after it's forgotten
• Roughly 4+ years operating in a similar AWS Engineer position

Caterpillar grew up alongside its customers, scaling from a single Chesapeake room into the technology partner much of VA now trusts. We onboard you to the technology mission first and the Kubernetes tooling second, in that order.

The whole offer in one line: $72,000 - $111,000, mentorship, benefits, and flexible internship hours that respect the life you have in VA.

Re-dated this morning, Caterpillar continues hiring for the AWS Engineer role.

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