AWS Sr. Cloud Engineer

TechDigital Group; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

TechDigital Group in Columbus, OH seeks a cloud infrastructure engineer to design and operate scalable deployments on AWS ECS/EKS. You will build container platforms, manage Terraform modules, and implement blue/green deployment strategies.

Role requires expertise in Terraform, Jenkins, and Spinnaker to standardize builds and deployments. You will enhance observability with Dynatrace and Splunk and ensure environment consistency across stages.

Qualifications

• Experience with AWS ECS/EKS and container platforms.
• Proficient in Terraform module design and provisioning patterns.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools including Jenkins and Spinnaker.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate container platforms using Amazon ECS/EKS (EC2 and/or Fargate) with clusters, services, task definitions, autoscaling, IAM roles, and ALB/NLB integrations.
• Implement blue/green deployments and controlled rollouts with rollback mechanisms and environment consistency.
• Create and govern Terraform modules/patterns for provisioning of VPC, IAM, ECS, logging/monitoring, and shared services across environments.
• Understand client processes and implement CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins (CI) and Spinnaker (CD) to standardize build, test, artifact promotion, and deployments to ECS.
• Establish end-to-end observability: APM, metrics, tracing, logging, dashboards, alerts, and SLO-style operational readiness using Dynatrace + Splunk with ECS workloads.
• Establish telemetry collection standards and enable rapid issue diagnosis by operations teams.

Skills

Overall AWS Services

Terraform - IAC

AWS ECS & EKS

Jenkins

Spinnaker

Splunk

Dynatrace

Job description

Certifications Required and obtained within the last three years

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional – This is for overall AWS knowledge / skills
• HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate – For Infrastructure Automation skills.

Top Skills

• Overall AWS Services 5+ years
• Terraform - IAC 3+ years
• AWS ECS & EKS 2+ years
• Jenkins 2+ years
• Spinnaker 2+ years
• Splunk 1+ years
• Dynatrace 1+ years

Job Description/ Responsibilities

• Build and operate container platforms using Amazon ECS/EKS (EC2 and/or Fargate) including clusters, services, task definitions, autoscaling, IAM roles, and ALB/NLB integrations.
• Implement modern deployment strategies such as blue/green and controlled rollouts, with strong rollback mechanisms and environment consistency.
• Create and govern Terraform modules/patterns for consistent provisioning (VPC, IAM, ECS, logging/monitoring, and shared services), including remote state, versioning, and promotion across environments
• Understand the client process and implement CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins (CI) and Spinnaker (CD) to standardize build, test, artifact promotion, and deployments to ECS.
• Implement end-to-end observability: APM, metrics, tracing, logging, dashboards, alerts, and SLO-style operational readiness using Dynatrace + Splunk integrated with ECS workloads.
• Establish standards for telemetry collection (e.g., sidecar-based collection patterns where applicable) and ensure operations teams can diagnose issues rapidly