Cloud Engineer

Summary: The Senior Cloud Engineer role involves developing full-stack applications using AWS, React, and NodeJS, with a focus on building CI/CD pipelines and enhancing business processes. This position requires collaboration with stakeholders to align technology solutions with the agency's architectural goals. The role is fully remote but requires in-person equipment pickup in Richmond, VA. The expected duration of the contract is until February 27, 2026, with no extensions anticipated.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business requirements and convert them into actionable solution components aligned with DBHDS's Enterprise Solution architecture patterns, procedures, and policies.
• Design and develop scalable, resilient AWS micro frontends and engineering solutions using cloud-native services and technologies.
• Develop front-end components and back-end services to create cohesive applications within cloud and hybrid infrastructures.
• Build and maintain continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to automate updates and feature deployments.
• Manage configuration drift and ensure consistency across different environments, using tools like AWS Code Build/Deploy and AWS CloudFormation.
• Create comprehensive solution documentation detailing the design, testing, and production support processes and procedures.
• Ensure solution completeness through thorough testing and quality assurance processes, ensuring compliance with security policies and best practices.
• Apply DevOps principles to streamline the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and enhance automation.
• Deploy solutions to various environments, establish monitoring processes, and ensure ongoing operational stability and application resiliency through system stress testing and feature enhancements.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand change requirements, provide technical expertise, and ensure solutions align with business needs.
• Lead the other full stack developers on the team.

Key Skills:

• Expertise in developing AWS full stack applications: Translate business requirements into fully tested applications workflows by designing, implementing, and maintaining technology assets using approved tools and plugins for AWS for NodeJS and react.
• Proficiency in Micro-frontends orchestrion: Strong proficiency in cloud platforms, leveraging native cloud services for micro front-end orchestration solution.
• API Development: Expertise in designing, developing, and maintaining APIs specifically tailored for cloud environments including AWS API Gateway.
• Cloud Networking and Security: Understanding of cloud networking concepts including VPCs, subnets, security groups and cloud security best practices, including identity and access management (IAM).
• Serverless Computing: Experience with serverless computing concepts, event-driven architecture, and serverless platforms.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Automate the provisioning and management of cloud infrastructure using tools like AWS CloudFormation and Terraform.
• Scripting and Automation: Ability to write scripts and automate tasks using scripting languages including NodeJS and Python.
• Monitoring and Logging: Experience in setting up alerts, dashboards, and logs for cloud infrastructure and applications.
• DevOps Practices: Strong understanding of DevOps practices, including building and optimizing CI/CD pipelines leveraging AWS CodeBuild/Deploy or Terraform.
• End-User Training and Support: Provide support and training to end-users for improved solution literacy and tool usage in a cloud ecosystem.
• Business Process Automation: Analyze business process life cycles to identify opportunities for automation and simplification, implementing appropriate solutions.
• Collaboration and Communication: Collaborate with product and business owners to deliver robust cloud-based solutions, demonstrating excellent communication skills (both written and verbal).
• Compliance: Adhere to all policies and procedures of the Agency.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: undetermined

Country: USA

Working Arrangements: remote

IR35 Status: outside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT