Remote AWS Cloud Engineer (Kubernetes + IaC)

Eliassen Group; Lincoln (NE); Remote; USD 135,000 - 146,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401k matching

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 scalability, performance, and security.

The engineer participates in on‑call rotations to support 24/7 production systems and incident response. Responsibilities include provisioning AWS infrastructure with Terraform, managing EKS clusters, configuring networking, containerizing

Qualifications

• Hands-on AWS experience with cloud deployment strategies.
• Familiarity with container registries and CI/CD pipelines for containers.
• Proficiency with Python, Bash, YAML/JSON, Node.js, and Lambda functions.
• Knowledge of disaster recovery planning and implementation.
• AWS DevOps Engineer or Solutions Architect Associate certs are a plus.

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

Python

Bash

YAML/JSON

CI/CD

Docker

Lambda

Education

BS/BA in IT or related

MS/MA

PhD

HS Diploma/equivalent

Tools

AWS ECR

CI/CD pipelines

ECS

CloudWatch

Terraform

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.

The engineer participates in on‑call rotations to support 24/7 production systems and incident response. Responsibilities include provisioning AWS infrastructure with Terraform, managing EKS clusters, configuring networking, containerizing