Position: AWS Engineer
Location: 3 days in Montvale, NJ + 1 Day in Edison, NJ
Employment: Contract
Role Overview
We are seeking a highly skilled AWS Engineer to design, implement, and manage our cloud infrastructure. In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring that our systems are scalable, resilient, and secure. You will work closely with development and DevOps teams to automate deployments, optimize cloud costs, and maintain high availability across all environments.
Key Responsibilities
• Infrastructure Design: Architect and deploy scalable, high-availability, and fault-tolerant systems on AWS.
• Automation & IaC: Utilize Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform or AWS CloudFormation to automate resource provisioning.
• CI/CD Integration: Build and maintain automated deployment pipelines to support seamless software delivery.
• Monitoring & Optimization: Set up monitoring, logging, and alerting systems (CloudWatch, Prometheus) to ensure system health and optimize performance.
• Cost Management: Monitor cloud spend and implement cost-saving strategies like Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and resource right-sizing.
• Disaster Recovery: Design and test backup and recovery strategies to ensure data integrity and business continuity.
Required Technical Skills
• AWS Core Services: Deep expertise in EC2, S3, VPC, RDS, Lambda, Route 53, and IAM.
• Containerization: Experience with orchestration platforms like Amazon ECS or EKS (Kubernetes).
• Scripting: Proficiency in at least one scripting language (e.g., Python, Bash, or Go) for automation tasks.
• Networking: Strong understanding of cloud networking (Subnets, VPNs, Direct Connect, Load Balancers).
• Database Management: Familiarity with SQL and NoSQL databases (Aurora, DynamoDB, MongoDB).
Certifications:
AWS Professional Certifications - AWS certified solution architect professional, AWS certified DevOps engineer – professional and /or AWS Specialty Certifications - Security etc
Preferred nice-to-have Skills:
• Experience with multi-cloud environments (Azure or GCP).
• Knowledge of serverless architecture and event-driven design.
• Familiarity with third-party monitoring tools like Datadog, New Relic, or Splunk.
• Big-4 or top tier Professional Services experience is a plus.
