Senior AWS Cloud Engineer – Kubernetes & CI/CD (Remote)

Eliassen Group; Lansing (MI); Remote; USD 90,000 - 96,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits

401k with company matching

Life Insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking an Application Cloud Engineer for remote, contract work to maintain and enhance AWS-based applications and infrastructure. You will collaborate with development, operations, and security teams to ensure scalability, performance, and security, including on-call rotations for 24/7 production systems.

Responsibilities include provisioning AWS infra with IaC, managing EKS, configuring networking, and deploying via ECS and Lambda, across dev/stage/prod environments. U.S.

Qualifications

• 8+ years IT experience with advanced degree options.
• Hands-on AWS deployment and infrastructure as code.
• Experience with container orchestration and CI/CD pipelines.
• Security clearance readiness and federal contracting familiarity.
• Proficient in Python, Bash, YAML/JSON, Node.js, and Lambda.

Responsibilities

• Provision and manage AWS infra with Terraform.
• Manage EKS clusters and node groups; configure VPC/networking.
• Administer Kubernetes objects including deployments and RBAC.
• Monitor production with CloudWatch; troubleshoot incidents.
• Containerize and deploy apps using ECS and Lambda.
• Ensure cross-environment consistency (dev/stage/prod).
• Automate health checks, log results, and improve pipelines.
• Support on-call rotations and incident response.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Python

CI/CD

Docker

Linux

Cloud security

On-call support

Education

BS/BA degree

MS/MA degree

PhD

HS Diploma/equivalent

Tools

Amazon ECR

CI/CD pipelines

Kubernetes

Terraform

AWS

Docker

ECS

Lambda

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking an Application Cloud Engineer for remote, contract work to maintain and enhance AWS-based applications and infrastructure. You will collaborate with development, operations, and security teams to ensure scalability, performance, and security, including on-call rotations for 24/7 production systems.

Responsibilities include provisioning AWS infra with IaC, managing EKS, configuring networking, and deploying via ECS and Lambda, across dev/stage/prod environments. U.S.