Cloud Engineer SME

Unreal Gigs • $120K — $150K *
Suitland, MD 20746In-Person
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
More than 3 months ago
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field
  • 7+ years of cloud architecture experience, particularly with AWS
  • US Citizenship with ability to obtain Public Trust security clearance
  • Proven skills in designing and implementing cloud-native applications
  • Strong understanding of application migration strategies and tools
  • Excellent knowledge of AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, Aurora, Lambda, etc.
  • Experience with containers (Docker, Kubernetes) and serverless architectures
  • Strong skills in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using TerraForm, CloudFormation, etc.
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills
  • AWS Certification (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect) is highly preferred
  • Experience with large data search applications (e.g., OpenSearch) preferred
  • Experience supporting federal government organizations is preferred
  • Willingness to be onsite in Suitland, Maryland 2-5 days a week

Responsibilities

  • Conduct cloud readiness assessments and create migration plans for AWS transitions
  • Design and architect scalable, secure cloud solutions using cloud-native technologies
  • Engage with customers to tailor cloud migration strategies based on their requirements
  • Collaborate with engineering teams for seamless application deployment
  • Configure and implement CI/CD pipelines for automation in AWS
  • Provide guidance on best practices for cloud design and optimization
  • Support migrations from on-premises to AWS ensuring data integrity and high availability
  • Provide architectural guidance on database design and operational issues
  • Assist in architecting cloud-native ETL processes using AWS services
  • Stay updated on emerging cloud technologies to enhance service offerings
  • Lead and mentor team members in cloud solutions implementation
  • Review security and performance metrics and provide improvement plans

Benefits

  • 401(k)
  • 401(k) matching
  • Dental insurance
  • Flexible spending account
  • Health insurance
  • Life insurance
  • Paid time off
  • Professional development assistance
  • Referral program
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Vision insurance
Full Job Description
We are seeking a highly skilled Cloud Engineer Subject Matter Expert (SME) to join our team. The ideal candidate will play a critical role in designing and implementing solutions for migrating and sustaining large data discovery and analytics applications to the cloud using cloud-native technologies. This role will focus on customer engagement to deeply understand their applications and collaborate with engineering teams to ensure successful deployments.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Conduct cloud readiness assessments and create migration plans to facilitate smooth transitions to AWS.
  • Design and architect scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud solutions on AWS, utilizing cloud-native technologies.
  • Engage with customers to gather requirements, understand their application architecture, and provide tailored cloud migration strategies.
  • Collaborate closely with engineering teams to ensure the seamless deployment of applications and services.
  • Configure and implement Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to automate builds, testing, and deployment in the AWS environment
  • Provide guidance on best practices for cloud application design, deployment, and optimization including through use of Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
  • Provide expertise and support for migrations from on-premises computing infrastructure to AWS cloud ensuring data integrity, minimal downtime, and high availability.
  • Provide architectural guidance to development teams on operational issues involving database design and implementation.
  • Provide SME recommendations for big data storing solutions, installations, and configurations while ensuring scaling needs.
  • Support database analysis, architecture, design, development, administration and capacity/storage, implementation, and operations of multi-terabytes scalable enterprise end-to-end backend database systems.
  • Experience modernizing and operating cloud computing environments supporting applications that leverage J2EE, Tomcat, Oracle RAC, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Aurora, ElasticSearch, OpenSearch ensuring data integrity, minimal downtime, and high availability.
  • Provide expertise and support to architect cloud-native Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) processes utilizing AWS Step Functions, Lamda, and Eventbrite for improved automation and maintainability.
  • Stay updated on emerging cloud technologies and industry trends to continually enhance our service offerings.
  • Lead and mentor team members in implementing cloud solutions, ensuring adherence to architectural standards.
  • Review security scans, accessibility audits, and performance testing to ensure full compliance with cybersecurity requirements; and, review results and provide mitigation or improvement plans where necessary and support the implementation of remediation activities to resolve and identified issues.

Requirements
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
  • 7+ years of experience in cloud architecture, with a strong focus on AWS services.
  • US Citizen; Ability to obtain a Public Trust security clearance.
  • Proven experience in designing and implementing cloud-native applications.
  • Strong understanding of application migration strategies and tools.
  • Excellent knowledge of AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, Aurora, Lambda, etc.) and best practices.
  • Experience with containers (Docker, Kubernetes) and serverless architectures.
  • Strong skills leveraging IaC developing automated deployment and orchestrations solutions using TerraForm, CloudFormation, and other scripting tools.
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills to engage effectively with customers and teams.
  • AWS Certification (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect) is highly preferred.
  • Experience with large data search and discovery applications (e.g., OpenSearch) highly preferred.
  • Experience supporting federal government organizations and missions is highly preferred.
  • Ability to be onsite in Suitland Maryland 2-5 days a week

Benefits
  • 401(k)
  • 401(k) matching
  • Dental insurance
  • Flexible spending account
  • Health insurance
  • Life insurance
  • Paid time off
  • Professional development assistance
  • Referral program
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Vision insurance

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