AWS Cloud Engineer

Location: Hartford, CT

Rate: $55 - $65/hr w2

Qualifications:

5+ Years: Design and implement new on-premises and AWS cloud resources while implementing best practices and industry standards

5+ Years: Migrate on-premises infrastructure to AWS cloud

5+ Years: Configure AWS cloud monitoring and alerts for cloud resource availability

2+ years of experience working in environment having different AWS services (RDS, Lambda, Cloudformation, Alexa, etc)

2+ years of experience working directly with AWS Infrastructure services (EC2, VPCs, Subnets, SG’s, Resource Groups, etc ) deployment

Required hands on experience for setting up AWS SSO, AWS Kinesis Firehose, Alexa, SQS, SNS, S3, Direct Connect Gateway and Transit Gateway

High degree of knowledge in IAM Roles and Policies

High degree of knowledge in IT security

High degree of knowledge in PaaS and SaaS application performance

Understand enterprise level application architecture diagrams

Demonstrate strong ability to troubleshoot technical problems and issues

High degree of knowledge in networking

Work closely with application development and data engineer teams on day-to-day tasks along with project planning and implementation

Demonstrated experience utilizing verbal and written communication and conversation skills

Highly skilled negotiator with proven ability to reach mutually satisfactory agreements by using a persuasive communication style

Plusses:

Vast understanding of cloud services and solutions in platforms such as AWS

Experience planning and executing on-premises to AWS migrations

Knowledge in automation and scripting languages

Experience working with AWS PaaS, AWS networking, and AWS site reliability solutions (specific examples of each will be requested)

Strong practical knowledge of Windows and Linux server operating systems (on-premises & IaaS)

AWS Certification

Experience with DevOps practices