AWS Cloud Engineer IV
About The Position
The AWS Cloud Engineer IV designs, implements, and maintains cloud infrastructure using Amazon Web Services (AWS), ensuring cloud solutions are scalable, secure, robust, and maintainable. The role serves as a lead engineer and architect, partnering with development, operations, security, project management, and other engineering teams to design enterprise applications and integrations, establish automation processes and standards, and support the AWS platform. It also contributes to policies and procedures for cloud service use and compliance, provides technical support, and works to improve AWS infrastructure capabilities and operability. The position leads technical work across multiple projects and participates in all phases of the Agile product lifecycle, from design through deployment. It guides platform and application development teams, helps migrate existing products to AWS, reviews code and designs, monitors AWS service developments, and evaluates cloud infrastructure for risks and opportunities. The engineer develops functional specifications and troubleshooting documentation, promotes continuous integration and deployment and other best practices, and shares expertise across large-scale, business-critical systems. This position has no supervisory responsibilities, though it may include mentoring and training other software engineers. It operates in a professional office environment and frequently uses computers, telephones, copiers, and other standard office equipment. The role may require additional hours. Employment sponsorship is not offered for this opportunity. The job is identified as hybrid.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- At least 7 years of experience in an Engineering, Network, or DevSecOps role.
- At least 3–5 years of experience with AWS.
- AWS Solutions Architect Associate, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, and/or AWS SysOps Admin certification required.
- Experience creating designs for AWS/cloud applications and networks.
- Proficiency in at least two programming languages, including Python or C#.
- Experience with AWS Lambda, EC2, ECS, S3, CDK, CloudFormation, EventBridge, Secrets Manager, DynamoDB, SNS, SQS, Step Functions, CloudTrail, and CloudWatch.
- Experience working with cloud management and monitoring tools.
- Experience supporting highly available applications.
- Ability to think critically and develop solutions for unique scenarios.
- Ability to work well with others in a team environment.
Responsibilities
- Performs the role of Lead Engineer/Architect.
- Designs and develops scalable, highly available, fault-tolerant, and maintainable AWS cloud solutions.
- Guides and provides technical guidance to platform and application development teams.
- Ensures AWS infrastructure components meet performance and security standards.
- Partners with software engineers and conducts code reviews.
- Participates in creating policies and procedures for cloud service use and compliance.
- Advises on migrating existing products into an AWS environment.
- Keeps current with AWS technologies and best practices to drive innovation and efficiency.
- Leads and facilitates technical aspects of several projects.
- Collaborates on the design and development of enterprise applications and integrations.
- Champions and applies best practices, including design reviews and continuous integration and deployment.
- Works to minimize or eliminate defects upon delivery.
- Partners with IT staff to plan and accomplish complicated tasks using creativity and judgment.
- Participates in all phases of the Agile product lifecycle, including design, development, and deployment.
- Monitors AWS What's New and other forums to assess service changes and new services for ICW infrastructure.
- Partners with project management and engineering teams to determine overall system solutions.
- Contributes to improving and growing the AWS platform using best practices and technologies.
- Evaluates existing cloud infrastructure to identify risks and opportunities for improvement.
- Provides expertise and contributes to application development on large-scale, business-critical systems.
- Writes quality system functional specifications.
- Partners with application teams to understand system design and roadmaps.
- Collaborates with application teams to conceptualize, design, and implement application and system architecture.
- Works with the security team to conceptualize, design, and implement application and security architecture.
- May mentor and train other software engineers.
Benefits
- Competitive benefits package with medical, dental, and vision plans.
- 401(k) retirement plan with company match.
- Bonus potential for all positions.
- Paid time off.
- Paid holidays.
- Support for continued learning.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
