Sr. Cloud Engineer

Connection • Baton Rouge, LA

4h • Remote

About The Position

Connection has a fantastic opportunity through our Technical Staffing division for a Senior Cloud Engineer. This is a contract-to-hire opportunity and is 100% remote. Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.

Requirements

• 5+ years AWS serverless architecture and administration
• 2+ years Infrastructure as Code
• 2+ years Creating CI/CD pipelines for web deployment and dbt
• 2+ years IAM and cloud security
• 2+ years Cloud networking basics
• 2+ years RDS administration
• Ability to manage multiple projects and meet deadlines

Nice To Haves

• Okta configuration
• Snowflake, big data administration
• Multi-region data center management and disaster recovery.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve AWS architecture for scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency
• Standardize infrastructure patterns and reusable templates to deploy infrastructure across dev, stage and production environments
• Design and maintain build and deployment pipelines
• Implement monitoring and alerting (CloudWatch, third-party tools), logging and tracing, health checks and synthetic monitoring
• Diagnose and resolve production incidents, performance bottlenecks, lead root-cause analysis and post-incident reviews
• Create and manage user accounts for SSO access to internal systems
• Communicate on all open projects and give updates to technology team staff

What This Job Offers

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