Remote AWS Cloud Engineer — Kubernetes & CI/CD Expert

Eliassen Group; Salt Lake City (UT); Remote; USD 186,252,000 - 200,579,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401k with company match

Life insurance

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 scalable, secure systems and reliable 24/7 production support.

Responsibilities include provisioning AWS infrastructure with Terraform, managing EKS clusters, configuring networking, and ensuring deployments are stable across dev, staging, and prod environments.

Qualifications

• 8+ years with a BS/BA, or 6+ years with an MS/MA, or 3 years with a PhD, or 12 years with HS Diploma or equivalent.
• 3 years of IT experience required.
• 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.

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

CI/CD

Terraform

Python

Bash

Node.js

Lambda

Education

BS/BA in IT or CS

MS/MA

PhD

HS Diploma

Tools

Terraform

Amazon EKS

CloudWatch

CI/CD tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS CLI

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 scalable, secure systems and reliable 24/7 production support.

Responsibilities include provisioning AWS infrastructure with Terraform, managing EKS clusters, configuring networking, and ensuring deployments are stable across dev, staging, and prod environments.