Contract - AWS Cloud Engineer

Role AWS Cloud Engineer

Location Nearshore Latin America Countries-Remote

Duration 6 months

QUALIFICATIONS:

• 6+ years of experience within the field of application/platform engineering or related technical work including business intelligence, analytics.

• 4+ years of experience with AWS Cloud engineering, management, maintenance, or architecting, implementing best practices and industry standards.

• Experience and comfort solving problems in an ambiguous environment where there is constant change

• Have the tenacity to thrive in a dynamic and fast-paced environment, inspire change, and collaborate with a variety of individuals and organizational partners

• Experience designing and building scalable and robust data pipelines to enable data-driven decisions for the business

• Effective problem solving and analytical skills. Ability to manage multiple projects and report simultaneously across different stakeholders

• Rigorous attention to detail and accuracy.

• Experience with large scale enterprise applications using big data open-source solutions such as Kafka.

• Strong knowledge and established experience with AWS services including but not limited to: S3, EC2, RDS, Lambda, Cloud Formation, Kinesis, Data Pipelines, EMR, Step Functions, VPC, IAM, and Security Groups.

• Familiarity with data warehousing platforms such as Redshift, Snowflake or similar.

• Experience with DB technologies (e.g., SQL, Python, PostgreSQL, AWS Aurora, AWS RDS, MongoDB, Redis).

• Experience with CI/CD tools, pipelines and scripting for automation. (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, AWS Code Pipeline tools, Cloud formation and Terraform).

• Experience with Kubernetes and Docker containers or AWS Fargate.

• High degree of knowledge in IAM Roles and Policies

• Strong knowledge configuring AWS cloud monitoring and alerts for cloud resource availability.

• Experience implementing applications with both Windows and Linux server OS

• Experience with networking, security groups, or policy management in relation to Cloud resources across multiple operating systems, including UNIX, Linux, or Windows

• Strong scripting experience using PowerShell and/or Python.

• High degree of knowledge in PaaS and SaaS application performance.

• Understand enterprise level application architecture diagrams and IT security requirements.

• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot technical problems and issues.

• Passionate about programming and learning new technologies.

• Experience planning and executing on-premises to AWS migrations

• BA or BS degree Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related fields.

• Strong verbal and oral communication.

• Advance CS degree is a plus