Cloud Systems Engineer

Job Description

Job Title: Cloud Systems Engineer

Location-Type: Remote EST

Start Date Is: ASAP

Duration: 6-month contract-to-hire

Compensation Range: Up to $53/hr

Job Description:Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Technical Support and Documentation:

Provide production technical support for cloud-based and on-demand environments.

Document solutions for operational effectiveness and strategic planning.

Ensure platform and service availability, security, scalability, and performance.

Solution Monitoring and Maintenance:

Support, enhance, and customize the hosted environment.

Monitor and manage alerting systems; respond to incoming alerts promptly.

Design and maintain software currency and patch management processes.

Develop and manage a utilization and capacity plan for the hosted services.

Generate regular system performance and operational reports for management.

IT Expertise Delivery:

Contribute technology expertise to project teams as required.

Represent specialized technology-area knowledge effectively.

Lead or participate in additional projects or duties as assigned.Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Cloud and Systems Administration:

Strong experience with AWS services (Elastic Load Balancers, EC2, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, Lambda, etc.).

Familiarity with Application Servers (Tomcat, JBoss, Weblogic).

Proficient in monitoring and logging tools (Data Dog, New Relic, ELK, etc.).

Scripting and Automation:

High level of proficiency in shell scripting (Powershell, Python, Bash).

Experienced with GitHub Actions, Ansible, Terraform, and Cloud-Init.

Security and Compliance:

Understanding of security best practices for environment and CI/CD processes.

Document and test disaster recovery and business continuity plans.

Ensure data and configuration backup and recovery.

Soft Skills:

Strong problem-solving, project management, and multitasking skills.

Excellent communication, interpersonal, and customer service skills.

Curiosity and self-learning capabilities with minimal guidance.

Ability to maintain confidentiality of sensitive information.

Willingness to participate in on-call rotation and perform off-hours work as needed.Education and Training:

Required: Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Preferred Certifications: CCNA, MCSE, SQL DBA certifications.

Experience: 5+ years in Information Technology with at least 3 years as a Systems Administrator.