AWS Engineer

Energy Innovation Corp; Lawrence (KS); On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Energy Innovation Corp in Lawrence, KS seeks an AWS Engineer to build scalable backend services and robust observability. The role emphasizes mid-level leadership, production-grade reliability, and independence in a fast-paced studio environment.

Base salary ranges from $80,000 to $110,000, with growth coaching and tailored mentorship. The position is a contract arrangement in KS, offering control over hours and a high-autonomy work style.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of backend engineering experience in a production AWS environment.
• Strong observability and incident response skills.
• Experience with RabbitMQ and ELK Stack in production workloads.
• Familiarity with Service Mesh and Site Reliability Engineering concepts.
• Ability to translate vague product needs into shippable services.

Responsibilities

• Stand up observability so ScaleForward sees failures before customers in KS.
• Reproduce and fix production bugs in Lawrence field reports.
• Identify and curb bottlenecks in the Work-Life Balance process.
• Troubleshoot production incidents across Vault-based applications.
• Translate product wishes into RabbitMQ-based services.
• Incorporate third-party services into the ScaleForward stack.
• Align stakeholders and maintain governance across deployments.

Skills

5+ years experience

Observability

Stakeholder management

Site Reliability Engineering

Service Mesh

Tools

RabbitMQ

ELK Stack

Vault

AWS

Job description

Come build the backend that powers our spirited-and-grounded products, writing Work-Life Balance that holds up under serious load. This AWS Engineer role hands mid-level talent $80,000 - $110,000, a contract arrangement in KS, and the latitude to call the shots.

Key Responsibilities

• Stand up observability so ScaleForward sees failures before customers in KS do
• Reproduce the purpose-soaked bug from the Lawrence field report, then make it impossible again
• Spot the fast-paced Work-Life Balance anti-pattern in review before it spreads through ScaleForward
• Troubleshoot and resolve production incidents across Vault-based applications
• Translate fuzzy product wishes from ScaleForward stakeholders into shippable RabbitMQ services
• Reverse-engineer the mission-soaked Site Reliability Engineering format ScaleForward inherited and never documented
• Integrate third-party services and internal tools into the ScaleForward stack

What You'll Bring

• Calm under the deeply-curious chaos a mid-level role tends to generate
• Judgment seasoned by at least 5 years of real consequences
• Comfort being measured against a clear mid-level bar
• The diplomacy to align stakeholders who don't agree yet
• Familiarity with the Lawrence market and local technology landscape
• Knowledge of KS-specific regulations relevant to technology work
• Fluency across Service Mesh and Site Reliability Engineering, with strong opinions on both

ScaleForward is a fast-paced Lawrence, KS studio where ELK Stack gets treated with the seriousness most companies reserve for marketing. Nobody at ScaleForward will hover over your shoulder; we hand you the keys and trust you to drive.

We set the base at $80,000 - $110,000 and build outward with growth coaching, a mentor, benefits, and hours you genuinely control.

Refreshed minutes ago, this AWS Engineer req is wide open and taking applications.