Remote AWS Cloud Engineer – Kubernetes & IaC Expert

Eliassen Group; Richmond (VA); Remote; USD 90,000 - 96,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision benefits

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. The role works with development, operations, and security teams, participates in on‑call rotations, and supports 24/7 production systems.

This remote contract position requires US citizenship or a Public Trust clearance and offers benefits for W2 consultants. Responsibilities include provisioning AWS infrastructure with Terraform, managing EKS and Kubernetes resources,

Qualifications

• Minimum 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 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.
• AWS Certs such as DevOps Engineer or Solutions Architect Associate.
• Understanding of cloud architecture, autoscaling, and load balancing.
• Proficiency with monitoring, alerting, and logging tools.
• US citizenship and eligibility to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.
• Preferred: Docker, ECS, Kubernetes, 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

Terraform

EKS

Kubernetes

ECS

Lambda

Python

Bash

YAML/JSON

CI/CD

CloudWatch

Docker

Education

BS/BA in Computer Science or related field

MS/MA in related field

Tools

AWS CLI

Amazon ECR

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking an Application Cloud Engineer to maintain and enhance AWS‑based applications and infrastructure. The role works with development, operations, and security teams, participates in on‑call rotations, and supports 24/7 production systems.

This remote contract position requires US citizenship or a Public Trust clearance and offers benefits for W2 consultants. Responsibilities include provisioning AWS infrastructure with Terraform, managing EKS and Kubernetes resources,