Senior Cloud Engineer

Aca Group • Chattanooga, TN

5d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior
Cloud
Engineer
is responsible for
architecture, design, implementation, and management of the
AWS
cloud
infrastructure for ACA Group (“ACA”)'s
software and provisioned using the CDK.
You'll
have
the
opportunity to
shape and scale the
cloud foundation
that powers
ACA's
software
products. In this
role,
you'll
work with a
modern AWS-native stack,
collaborate
closely with
developers
and product
teams, and
influence
architectural
decisions
that
directly
impact
performance,
reliability, and
security
across our
platforms.
You'll
contribute to
building
thoughtful,
well-architected
infrastructure
using
IaC,
automation, and
DevOps
best
practices, while having
room to
experiment, bring
forward
new ideas, and
continuously
refine
how we deliver
and
operate.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in a related field or equivalent work experience
• Background in Software Development or Software Engineering
• Five years of professional hands-on experience building and managing AWS infrastructure using IaC (either using the AWS CDK using TypeScript, Terraform, or CloudFormation)
• Experience with scripting languages - Python (Boto3), Bash (AWS CLI), PowerShell, TypeScript (nice to have)
• Experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows
• Deep experience with observability platforms (New Relic, CloudWatch, Athena)
• Experience containerizing workloads and working with Docker environments
• Knowledge of Serverless architecture patterns and best practices
• Experience with and understanding of Linux and Windows environments 
• Deep network architecture knowledge including VPN, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect
• Experience with RDS, EC2, Fargate, S3, Glacier, Lambdas, ECS, EKS, Secrets, and CloudFront
• Experience with project management and collaboration tools like Jira and Confluence

Nice To Haves

• AWS certifications are a plus but not required
• Experience with Azure or Google Cloud is a plus but not required
• Experience with GitHub Actions and Octopus Deploy
• Software Development experience using C#, TypeScript, Python, Java is a big plus
• Experience with Ruby or Golang is a plus

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain secure and fault tolerant infrastructure and cloud software environments while applying fundamental principles of the AWS Well Architected Framework
• Manage the immutable infrastructure via CDK written in TypeScript
• Operate the development tools, such as IDEs, test environments, code repositories, artifact hosting, test runners, and automated release processes to enable developers
• Oversee the deployment of servers, storage, databases, and other required infrastructure
• Help design, oversee, and test the disaster recovery and business continuity plans
• Participate on an agile team and work in the full development lifecycle
• Perform analysis, design, development, unit testing, code reviews and deployment of cloud infrastructure
• Participate in an on-call rotation
• Make pragmatic design and architectural decisions with security in mind
• Investigate and pinpoint defects, deficiencies, or service outages

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level