Remote AWS Cloud Engineer with Kubernetes & CI/CD

Eliassen Group; Nashville (TN); 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 seeking an Application Cloud Engineer to maintain and enhance AWS-based applications and infrastructure. The role is remote with a contract engagement, requiring federal clearance eligibility and W2 work.

You will collaborate with development, operations, and security teams to ensure scalable, secure systems and participate in 24/7 on-call coverage. Responsibilities include provisioning AWS infrastructure with IaC (Terraform), managing EKS clusters, configuring networking, and

Qualifications

• 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.

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.

Skills

AWS experience

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Python

Team collaboration

On-call incident response

Education

BS/BA in related field

MS/MA in related field

HS Diploma/equivalent

Tools

Terraform

Amazon EKS

ECS

Lambda

CloudWatch

Docker

AWS CLI

ECR

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking an Application Cloud Engineer to maintain and enhance AWS-based applications and infrastructure. The role is remote with a contract engagement, requiring federal clearance eligibility and W2 work.

You will collaborate with development, operations, and security teams to ensure scalable, secure systems and participate in 24/7 on-call coverage. Responsibilities include provisioning AWS infrastructure with IaC (Terraform), managing EKS clusters, configuring networking, and