Remote AWS Cloud Engineer | EKS, Terraform & CI/CD

Eliassen Group; Augusta (ME); Remote; USD 90,000 - 96,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance (W2)

Dental insurance (W2)

Vision insurance (W2)

401k with match (W2)

Life insurance (W2)

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking an Application Cloud Engineer to maintain and enhance AWS-based applications and infrastructure. This remote contract role collaborates with development, operations, and security teams to ensure scalability, performance, and security across 24/7 production systems.

The role requires hands-on AWS, Terraform, and Kubernetes experience, with on‑call rotations and a strong focus on observability, reliability, and security.

Qualifications

• Hands-on AWS cloud deployments and architecture.
• Experience with IaC using Terraform or similar tooling.
• Proficient in Kubernetes/EKS administration and container orchestration.
• Strong scripting in Python/Bash and YAML/JSON.
• Familiar with CI/CD pipelines and cloud-native security practices.

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

Kubernetes

Terraform

Python

CI/CD

Linux/Bash

Cloud security

Monitoring/Observability

Communication

Education

BS/BA in CS or related field

Tools

Terraform

Amazon EKS

AWS ECS

AWS Lambda

AWS CLI

Docker

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking an Application Cloud Engineer to maintain and enhance AWS-based applications and infrastructure. This remote contract role collaborates with development, operations, and security teams to ensure scalability, performance, and security across 24/7 production systems.

The role requires hands-on AWS, Terraform, and Kubernetes experience, with on‑call rotations and a strong focus on observability, reliability, and security.