AWS Cloud DevOps Engineer (34262)

AWS Cloud DevOps Engineer (34262)

Posted 5 days ago by 1756446625

Negotiable
Outside
Hybrid
USA

Summary: The AWS Cloud/DevOps Engineer is responsible for leading the design, maintenance, and operations of cloud platforms, collaborating with stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical implementations. This advanced-level role involves overseeing automation efforts, migrating legacy applications to cloud services, and providing technical guidance to teams. The position requires a strong background in CI/CD, AWS Cloud, and related technologies, with a focus on continuous delivery and testing. The role operates under general supervision and may mentor junior staff while ensuring best practices in cloud architecture and procedures.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Leads the technical design, maintenance, and operation of cloud-based platforms.
  • Leads automation efforts to minimize manual work and ensure transparency in all aspects of the secure cloud ecosystem.
  • Implements hybrid IT by integrating different cloud services with back-end, traditional data center services.
  • Migrates legacy applications to public cloud services in a rehosting approach or in a revising approach for efficiency, agility, and disaster recovery.
  • Partners with stakeholders to obtain and translate requirements into technical implementations.
  • Integrates existing legacy systems with proposed systems by identifying gaps between the current and future state.
  • Oversees and develops continuous delivery framework and tools.
  • Develops testing use cases and detailed testing plans that map to the documented business and technical requirements.
  • Leads technical and end-user resources to execute detailed tests and analyze testing results.
  • Assists with implementation of customer side monitoring tools and may lead operation outage events.
  • Provides timely/responsive technical support including rotational on call support.

Key Skills:

  • Experience with CI/build tools, Pipelines.
  • AWS Cloud.
  • CI/CD (GitLab).
  • Terraform (Nice to Have).
  • Scripting (PowerShell/Python) (Nice to Have).
  • Some development background (Nice to Have).

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: Chicago

Country: USA

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: outside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT

Detailed Description From Employer:

Title : AWS Cloud/DevOps Engineer
Location: Chicago, IL 60604 ( Hybrid, 4 days onsite/week)
Duration: 1 Year contract (Possible extension)

*NOTE: W2 Contract ONLY,

TOP 3 skills:

  1. Experience with CI/build tools , Pipelines
  2. AWS Cloud
  3. CI/CD (GitLab)

Nice to Have:
  1. Terraform
  2. Scripting (PowerShell/Python)
  3. Some development background

Description
The Senior Cloud/DevOps Engineer leads the design, maintenance, transition to, and operations of cloud platforms. The Engineer collaborates with stakeholders to obtain and translate business requirements into technical implementations and provides guidance to technical teams regarding architectural and procedural best practices and functional experience. This position is considered advanced level and performs work of moderate to high complexity. The incumbent works under general supervision and may lead some efforts autonomously. This position does not have any direct reports but may lead or mentor of junior staff.

PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
  • Leads the technical design, maintenance, and operation of cloud-based platforms.
  • Leads automation efforts to minimize manual work and ensure transparency in all aspects of the secure cloud ecosystem.
  • Implements hybrid IT by integrating different cloud services with back-end, traditional data center services.
  • Migrates legacy applications to public cloud services in a rehosting approach or in a revising approach for efficiency, agility, and disaster recovery.
  • Partners with stakeholders to obtain and translate requirements into technical implementations.
  • Integrates existing legacy systems with proposed systems by identifying gaps between the current and future state.
  • Oversees and develops continuous delivery framework and tools.
  • Develops testing use cases and detailed testing plans that map to the documented business and technical requirements.
  • Leads technical and end-user resources to execute detailed tests and analyze testing results.
  • Assists with implementation of customer side monitoring tools and may lead operation outage events.
  • Provides timely/responsive technical support including rotational on call support.