Remote AWS Cloud Engineer: Kubernetes & IaC (Contract)

Eliassen Group; Providence (RI); Remote; USD 90,000 - 96,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision benefits

401k with company matching

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is actively seeking an Application Cloud Engineer to maintain and enhance AWS-based applications and infrastructure, collaborating with development, operations, and security teams to ensure scalability, performance, and security.

This contract role involves on‑call coverage for 24/7 production systems, incident response, and adherence to security and compliance requirements. Eligible candidates must be US citizens or permanent residents with active Public Trust clearance.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years with BS/BA, or 6 years with MS/MA, or 3 years with PhD, or 12 years with HS Diploma/equivalent.
• 3 years of IT experience.
• 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.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools and Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of disaster recovery planning and implementation.
• AWS or relevant cloud certifications such as AWS DevOps Engineer or Solutions Architect Associate.
• Understanding of cloud architecture, autoscaling, and load balancing.
• Proficiency with monitoring, alerting, and logging tools.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• US citizenship and eligibility to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.
• Preferred: 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 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

Python

Bash

Node.js

Lambda

CI/CD tools

Kubernetes

Education

BS/BA, MS/MA, or PhD options

HS Diploma/equivalent + 12 yrs

Tools

Terraform

Amazon ECR

CI/CD pipelines

Docker

ECS

Job description

Eliassen Group is actively seeking an Application Cloud Engineer to maintain and enhance AWS-based applications and infrastructure, collaborating with development, operations, and security teams to ensure scalability, performance, and security.

This contract role involves on‑call coverage for 24/7 production systems, incident response, and adherence to security and compliance requirements. Eligible candidates must be US citizens or permanent residents with active Public Trust clearance.