Remote Cloud Engineer – AWS, Kubernetes & DevOps

Eliassen Group; United States; Teletrabalho; USD 90 000 - 96 000; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

Medical, Dental, Vision benefits

401k with company matching

Life insurance

Resumo da oferta

Eliassen Group is seeking an Application Cloud Engineer to maintain and enhance AWS-based applications and infrastructure. The 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. Due to federal security clearance requirements, applicants must be a United States Citizen or Permanent Resident with an active Public Trust clearance

Qualificações

• Minimum 8 years IT experience with BS/BA, or 6 years with MS/MA, or 12 years with HS/equivalent.
• Hands-on AWS experience with cloud deployment strategies.
• Experience with CI/CD tools, Kubernetes, and containerized workflows.

Responsabilidades

• 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.

Conhecimentos

AWS

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Python

Bash

YAML/JSON

Node.js

Lambda

Terraform

Docker

Formação académica

BS/BA

MS/MA

PhD

HS Diploma

Ferramentas

Terraform

AWS CLI

CI/CD pipelines

Docker

ECS

Kubernetes

CloudWatch

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Eliassen Group is seeking an Application Cloud Engineer to maintain and enhance AWS-based applications and infrastructure. The 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. Due to federal security clearance requirements, applicants must be a United States Citizen or Permanent Resident with an active Public Trust clearance