Cloud Applications Engineer - AWS, Kubernetes, IaC (Remote)

Eliassen Group; Sacramento (CA); Remote; USD 185,976,000 - 201,130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision benefits

401k with company matching

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking an Application Cloud Engineer to maintain and enhance AWS-based applications and infrastructure. This remote contractor role collaborates with development, operations, and security teams to ensure scalable, high‑performing, and secure systems.

You will participate in on‑call rotations and contribute to incident response while supporting 24/7 production environments. The position requires US citizenship or permanent residency with Public Trust clearance and offers

Qualifications

• 8+ years IT experience with BS/BA (or 6+ years with MS/MA, or 3+ years with PhD).
• 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.
• US citizenship and eligibility to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.
• Preferred: Familiarity with Docker, ECS, Kubernetes, and ITIL or incident management frameworks.

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.

Skills

AWS

Terraform

EKS

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Python

Bash

Lambda

Docker

ECS

CloudWatch

YAML/JSON

Node.js

ITIL/incident management

Public Trust clearance

Education

BS/BA

MS/MA

PhD

HS Diploma/equivalent

Tools

AWS ECR

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking an Application Cloud Engineer to maintain and enhance AWS-based applications and infrastructure. This remote contractor role collaborates with development, operations, and security teams to ensure scalable, high‑performing, and secure systems.

You will participate in on‑call rotations and contribute to incident response while supporting 24/7 production environments. The position requires US citizenship or permanent residency with Public Trust clearance and offers