Cloud Engineer

FormativGroup • Alpharetta, GA

12d • $43 - $53 • Hybrid

About The Position

The core function of the Cloud Engineer is to support NextGen Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) platform. This role will focus on building, automating, and operating secure, scalable AWS infrastructure, including infrastructure as code, observability platforms, and CI/CD pipelines. The Cloud Engineer will collaborate closely with architecture and data teams to deliver resilient cloud services, data pipelines, and monitoring solutions aligned with long-term platform strategy.

Requirements

• 6-8+ yrs of hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Design, provision, and manage AWS infrastructure (VPC, API Gateway, Lambda, RDS, Kinesis, Secrets Manager, EventBridge) using Terraform.
• Hands-on experience with Observability Platform: Implement and support the observability stack, including OpenTelemetry Collector, Kinesis ingestion, Mimir, and Grafana; build pipelines for ingesting metrics, logs, and traces from various sources.
• Hands-on experience with Data & Integration Support: Develop data ingestion and transformation workflows to facilitate data integration.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD & Automation: Create CI/CD pipelines to automate deployments, testing, and monitoring of cloud services, while implementing configuration management for consistency across environments.
• Tech Stack: Utilize Python for development, Terraform for IaC, and AWS services (Lambda, API Gateway, Kinesis, RDS, S3, EventBridge, Secrets Manager, IAM, CloudWatch) along with observability tools like OpenTelemetry and Grafana.

Responsibilities

• Support NextGen Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) platform.
• Experience with building, automating, and operating infrastructure and observability capabilities in AWS to ensure secure, scalable, and reliable banking services.
• Partner closely with our architecture and data teams to deliver infrastructure components, data pipelines, and observability solutions that align with our long-term platform strategy.
• Deliver infrastructure components, data pipelines, and observability solutions that align with our long-term platform strategy.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Observability Platform Data & Integration Support CI/CD & Automation

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed