Cloud Engineer - Remote

About This Role

This remote contract position is for an Application Cloud Engineer who will maintain and enhance AWS-based applications and infrastructure. The role involves collaborating with development, operations, and security teams to ensure scalability, performance, and security of systems, and participating in on-call rotations for 24/7 production support and incident response.

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

Requirements

• 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
• 3 years of IT experience
• Hands-on AWS experience with cloud deployment strategies
• Familiarity with image registries such as Amazon ECR and CI/CD pipelines for containers
• Proficiency with Python, Bash, YAML/JSON, Node.js, and Lambda functions
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools and Kubernetes
• Knowledge of disaster recovery planning and implementation
• AWS or relevant cloud certifications such as AWS DevOps Engineer or Solutions Architect Associate
• Understanding of cloud architecture, autoscaling, and load balancing
• Proficiency with monitoring, alerting, and logging tools
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Analytical and problem-solving skills
• US citizenship and eligibility to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance

Nice to have:

• Familiarity with Docker, ECS, Kubernetes, and ITIL or incident management frameworks

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits
• 401k with company matching
• Life insurance
• Pre-tax accounts
• Other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance
• Sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality

Important Details

• Contract: W2 basis
• Standard Hours: Open

About the Company

Our client is in the government industry.