Cloud Engineer

Strategic Staffing Solutions; St. Louis (MO); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Strategic Staffing Solutions in St. Louis, MO, is seeking a Cloud Engineer for a 12+ month W2 contract. The role is hybrid/onsite 3 days per week, with production support, onboarding of new teams, and driving CI/CD adoption across platforms.

You will work with AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and security tooling to improve platform reliability and security, while collaborating with AppSec and Cybersecurity teams. Bachelor's degree required.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in DevOps / DevSecOps / platform engineering.
• Hands-on administration of an enterprise CI platform (Jenkins/CloudBees preferred) and pipeline development using shared/reusable libraries.
• Practical GitHub Actions experience — workflows, reusable workflows, runners, secrets.
• Strong hands-on AWS (EKS, EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, Route 53, KMS, EFS) and production Kubernetes.
• Terraform at production scale — modules, state management, multi-environment, pipeline-driven plan/apply; plus Helm and Docker.
• Pipeline security tooling: SAST, SCA, SBOM, container scanning, quality gates.
• Linux administration and troubleshooting.
• Networking — TCP/IP, DNS, routing, firewalls, load balancing, proxies, VPN/Transit Gateway, packet-level diagnostics.
• Certificates and TLS — PKI, issuance, and renewal, truststores, mTLS.
• Identity — LDAP, Azure AD / SAML / OIDC, SSO, SCIM, RBAC.
• Scripting in Python, Bash, and Groovy.
• Ability to work independently with broad ownership; strong documentation discipline; participation in on-call rotation.

Responsibilities

• Support internal teams and provide ongoing production and operational support.
• Investigate and resolve production issues, incident tickets, and operational requests.
• Work with new teams to onboard them onto the organization's development platforms and standards.
• Assist teams with adoption of CI/CD pipelines, GitHub, and other development tooling.
• Collaborate closely with development teams to ensure proper setup and integration with platform services.
• Partner with the AppSec and Cybersecurity teams to ensure security policies, standards, and compliance requirements are followed.
• Support and maintain the existing platform and operational environment.
• Work on continuous improvements related to platform reliability, development processes, and security practices.

Skills

DevOps/DevSecOps

GitHub Actions

AWS

Jenkins/CloudBees

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Security tooling

Linux

Networking

Scripting

Identity

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Jenkins/CloudBees

GitHub Actions runners

Docker

Helm

Terraform

Job description

Cloud Engineer

St. Louis, MO (Hybrid/onsite 3 days per week)

12+ Months with opportunity to extend

W2 Contract role

Position Summary

• Support internal teams and provide ongoing production and operational support.


• Investigate and resolve production issues, incident tickets, and operational requests.


• Work with new teams to onboard them onto the organization's development platforms and standards.


• Assist teams with adoption of CI/CD pipelines, GitHub, and other development tooling.


• Collaborate closely with development teams to ensure proper setup and integration with platform services.


• Partner with the Application Security (AppSec) and Cybersecurity teams to ensure security policies, standards, and compliance requirements are followed.


• Support and maintain the existing platform and operational environment.


• Work on continuous improvements related to platform reliability, development processes, and security practices.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years in DevOps / DevSecOps / platform engineering


• Hands-on administration of an enterprise CI platform (Jenkins/CloudBees preferred) and pipeline development using shared/reusable libraries


• Practical GitHub Actions experience — workflows, reusable workflows, runners, secrets


• Strong hands-on AWS (EKS, EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, Route 53, KMS, EFS) and production Kubernetes


• Terraform at production scale — modules, state management, multi-environment, pipeline-driven plan/apply; plus Helm and Docker


• Pipeline security tooling: SAST, SCA, SBOM, container scanning, quality gates


• Linux administration and troubleshooting


• Networking — TCP/IP, DNS, routing, firewalls, load balancing, proxies, VPN/Transit Gateway, packet-level diagnostics


• Certificates and TLS — PKI, issuance, and renewal, truststores, mTLS


• Identity — LDAP, Azure AD / SAML / OIDC, SSO, SCIM, RBAC


• Scripting in Python, Bash, and Groovy


• Ability to work independently with broad ownership; strong documentation discipline; participation in on-call rotation

Education

• Bachelor's degree is required