ALTA IT Services is staffing a remote contract to hire opportunity for an AWS Cloud Engineer to support a federal end client.

AWS Cloud Engineer

Contract to Hire

100% Remote

Pay: $50-55/hr W2

Must be USC

Active Public Trust is strongly preferred (minimum Public Trust eligible)

Responsibilities:

Our client is looking for an AWS Cloud Engineer to support our Federal client.Our client is in the process of modernizing and consolidating IT infrastructure, automating workloads, and pursuing next-generation innovation.We are seeing an AWS Cloud Engineer with experience in the design, development, and implementation of projects in the cloud.The ideal candidate is experienced in cloud-based tech, with a firm grasp of emerging technologies, and platforms, and the ability to customize them to help our client become more secure and efficient.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Build a strong relationship with the development teams to understand the code, its dependencies, and the infrastructure on which it runs.
• Experience building cloud-based infrastructure solutions in AWS with a strong governance model knowledge.
• Work with the development team to deploy and manage tools that support SDLC automation, configuration management, and release management.
• Design and implement CI/CD pipelines that automate all aspects of building, testing, deploying, and monitoring applications in AWS.
• Respond to technical issues in a professional and timely manner.
• Troubleshoot incidents, identify root causes, fix and document the problem, and implement preventive measures.
• Maintain technical system documentation as needed for audits and compliance.
• Provide guidance, thought leadership, and mentorship to team members to build cloud competencies.
• Keep abreast of industry white papers & informed of industry direction and best practices.
• Work with the project teams in support of creating and participating in building customer briefings.
• Ability to facilitate customer briefings inclusive of putting together materials and presentations

• Bachelor's Degree in business, information technology, computer science, engineering, or equivalent work experience
• 3+ years of experience working in a DevOps environment
• 3+ years of experience with containers on AWS including ECS, EKS, and/or Fargate.

• AWS Certification (e.g., Cloud Architect Associate, DevOps Engineer, Developer, SysOps Administrator)
• Experience with the AWS Console, CLI, and SDK.
• Experience with source code management tools such as Git, GitLab, and GitHub.
• Proficiency in cross-platform scripting languages (Python, Bash, JavaScript, Ruby)
• Experience with DevOps build tools including Maven, Gradle, and Ant.
• Experience deploying and administering continuous integration tools such as Jenkins, TFS, GitLab, GitHub, or Bamboo.
• Experience with infrastructure as code tools such as Cloud Formation, Terraform, CDK,
• Proficiency with at least one technology language like Java, JavaScript, NodeJS, or Python.
• Proficiency in at least 1 object-oriented programming language such as Java or C#.
• Knowledge of security and performance best practices for cloud architectures.
• Ability to define and build scalable CI/CD pipelines.
• Understanding of deployment strategies for containerization.
• Strong understanding of network and internet protocols, including TCP/IP, DNS, SMTP, and HTTP.
• Ability to independently investigate, troubleshoot, design, and develop solutions.
• Ability to collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams of architects, developers, business analysts, quality assurance testers, and subject matter experts.
• Detail-oriented and extremely efficient.
• Strong written and oral communication skills to interact with business and technology teams.
• Strong understanding and experience operating in an agile development environment.