Marathon TS
AWS Cloud Engineer
Hybrid Remote in Manassas, VA
Financial Technology Industry

Marathon TS is looking for a Cloud Engineer to support a long term contract in the financial technology industry. Consultants will work within the Cloud Center of Enablement team to design, implement, and manage the cloud computing framework that enables cloud solutions at our client

Responsibilities

Define and implement secure, compliant, scalable versions of cloud resources (e.g. EC2, Kubernetes clusters, Databases, Load-balancers, Backup, etc.) that are exposed as internal products or network based services
Make cloud products available for self service via Infra-as-code using AWS CDK, Terraform and/or CloudFormation
Standardize and automate creation of application workload environments and DevOps tooling
Help app teams design secure and scalable infrastructure using approved cloud products, and support app DevOps teams from onboarding to Launch
Deploy and manage central services using DevOps and Infra-as-code
Build and maintain operational tools for deployment, monitoring, and analysis of AWS infrastructure and central services
Implement automation for Cloud cost management, analysis and reporting

Technical skills & knowledge

Experience building and maintaining infrastructure using Infra-as-code tools such as AWS CDK, Terraform or CloudFormation
Experience building automation using programming languages such as Python, Java or Node.js
Working with Git/Bitbucket to manage code, and Jenkins or other CICD platforms to orchestrate
Ability to learn/use a wide variety of open-source technologies and tools
Collaborative work within a team as well as self-driven, in Agile environment

Desirable technical skills & knowledge

Deploying foundational AWS services (VPC, Subnet, Routes, EC2, Lambda, Step Functions, EKS, ELB, S3, EBS, RDS(Aurora), DynamoDB, CloudWatch, Cloudtrail etc) as IaC
Deploying and managing infrastructure AWS Infrastructure using Terraform or CloudFormation through CI/CD pipelines
Basic understanding of how to secure AWS environments and meet compliance requirements
Managing Immutable Infra setups with EC2 is a plus
Experience with AWS Landing Zone and underlying technology is a major advantage

Domains

Infrastructure
Automation
DevOps
Cloud