DevOps/Cloud Engineer

Location: Wilmington, DE

Salary: $70.00 USD Hourly - $75.00 USD Hourly

Description:

Role: DevOps / Cloud Engineer

Duration: 3-6 months contract to hire

Location: Wilmington, DE

Must Haves: AWS - EKS, ECS, DynamoDB, S3, Programming experience in Java

Nice to Haves: Python

Responsibilities

Lead large-scale public cloud migration programs, proactively identifying risks, resolving blockers, and ensuring successful execution across multiple initiatives.

Partner closely with product, engineering, and architecture teams to deliver reliable, scalable, and user-centric cloud solutions.

Own end-to-end platform issues, driving rapid resolution for challenges related to cloud infrastructure, performance, and application build quality on AWS.

Define cloud onboarding strategies, standards, and best practices to help teams adopt public cloud platforms securely and in alignment with compliance and regulatory requirements.

Drive adoption of core AWS services including EC2, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, CloudFront, EFS, CloudWatch, EKS, ECS, API Gateway, VPC Peering, and related offerings.

Architect resilient, secure, and high-performance cloud platforms following organizational and industry best practices.

Continuously measure and optimize system performance, anticipate customer needs, and deliver ongoing improvements through automation and innovation.

Provide operational support for cloud platforms, troubleshoot complex issues, and automate manual processes to increase reliability and efficiency.

Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to design practical technical solutions and improve user experience across the platform.

Optimize cloud costs by designing efficient architectures and driving cost-management strategies.

Plan and lead game days, resiliency tests, and chaos engineering exercises to validate system reliability.

Apply expertise in programming languages (Java, Python, SQL, Node.js, Go, Scala), relational and NoSQL databases, container platforms (Docker, Kubernetes), and a broad range of AWS services to build scalable solutions.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

5+ years of hands-on software engineering or cloud engineering experience, with formal training in core engineering concepts.

Strong understanding of business and technology drivers, including their impact on architecture, performance, monitoring, and operational excellence.

Experience designing and implementing cloud environments on AWS using services such as EC2, ELB, RDS, DynamoDB, EKS, ECS, SQS/SNS, S3, and Route 53.

Proficiency in modern development and cloud technologies including Java (8+), Spring Boot, RESTful microservices, AWS or Cloud Foundry, and Kubernetes.

Experience with DevOps and CI/CD tooling such as Docker, Jenkins, GitHub, Maven, SonarQube, Artifactory, Ansible, and Kubernetes.

Experience using monitoring and observability tools such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, Datadog, Splunk, or Dynatrace.

Hands-on experience building Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar tools.

Experience with one or more public cloud platforms (AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Azure).

Experience building high-volume, mission-critical systems and event-driven or messaging-based architectures.

Understanding of financial industry technologies and experience with optimizing public cloud cost and usage.

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