Senior Cloud Engineer - AWS, Kubernetes & IaC (Remote)

Eliassen Group; Hartford (CT); Remote; USD 90,000 - 96,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401k with match

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking an Application Cloud Engineer for a remote contract role to maintain and enhance AWS-based applications and infrastructure. The position collaborates with development, operations, and security teams to ensure scalability, performance, and security across environments.

You will participate in on-call rotations for 24/7 production support and implement IaC with Terraform, manage EKS clusters, and ensure robust CI/CD pipelines with Docker, ECS, and Lambda.

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.
• Hands-on AWS experience with cloud deployment strategies.
• Familiarity with image registries such as Amazon ECR and CI/CD pipelines for containers.

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

Python

Bash

YAML/JSON

Node.js

Lambda

CI/CD

Docker

ECS

ITIL

Incident management

Education

BS/BA in related field

MS/MA in related field

PhD in related field

Tools

Docker

CI/CD tools

Amazon ECR

CloudWatch

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking an Application Cloud Engineer for a remote contract role to maintain and enhance AWS-based applications and infrastructure. The position collaborates with development, operations, and security teams to ensure scalability, performance, and security across environments.

You will participate in on-call rotations for 24/7 production support and implement IaC with Terraform, manage EKS clusters, and ensure robust CI/CD pipelines with Docker, ECS, and Lambda.