Cloud Engineer — AWS/Kubernetes | Remote Contract

Eliassen Group; Atlanta (GA); Remote; USD 90,000 - 96,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

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. You will collaborate with development, operations, and security teams to ensure scalability, performance, and security across environments.

The role requires on-call participation for 24/7 production support, strong IaC experience with Terraform, and hands-on work with EKS, ECS, Lambda, and Kubernetes. This is a remote contract role paying $65–$70 per hour on a W2 basis.

Qualifications

• 8+ years IT experience with cloud deployments.
• Hands-on AWS experience with Terraform and EKS.
• Proficiency with Python, Bash, YAML/JSON, Node.js, and Lambda.
• Experience with CI/CD tooling and Kubernetes.
• US citizenship or permanent resident with active Public Trust clearance.
• W2 employment availability for consultant roles.
• 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 observability tools.
• Containerize and deploy applications using ECS and Lambda.
• Deploy across dev, staging, and prod environments for 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.

Tools

AWS

Terraform

EKS

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Docker

ECS

Lambda

Python

Bash

YAML/JSON

AWS CLI

Node.js

CloudWatch

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking an Application Cloud Engineer to maintain and enhance AWS-based applications and infrastructure. You will collaborate with development, operations, and security teams to ensure scalability, performance, and security across environments.

The role requires on-call participation for 24/7 production support, strong IaC experience with Terraform, and hands-on work with EKS, ECS, Lambda, and Kubernetes. This is a remote contract role paying $65–$70 per hour on a W2 basis.