Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is an American multinational information technology services and consulting company and is a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services, dedicated helping the world's leading companies build stronger businesses.
Title: AWS Cloud Engineer
Work Location: Columbus, OH / Jersey City, NJ
Job Type: Contract
Work Type: Hybrid
Duration: 3+ Months
Job Description:
Responsibilities

• Drive, support, and deliver on a strategy to build broad use of Amazon's utility computing web services (e.g., AWS EC2, AWS S3, AWS RDS, AWS CloudFront, AWS EPS, CloudWatch, AWS EKS, AWS ECS)
• Design resilient, secure, and high performing platforms in Public Cloud using the best practices
• Improve reliability, quality, and time-to-market of our suite of software solutions moving to public cloud
• Measure and optimize system performance, with an eye toward pushing our capabilities forward, getting ahead of customer needs, and innovating to continually improve
• Provide primary operational support and engineering for the public cloud platform and debug and optimize systems and automate routine tasks
• Collaborate with a cross-functional team to develop real-world solutions and positive user experiences afravery interaction.
• Drive work streams to ensure Applications meet strict non-functional requirements for Public Cloud On-boarding
• Drive Cost management through the effective design and optimization of public cloud platforms and technologies
• Organize and run game days, resiliency tests and chaos engineering exercises
• Utilize programming languages like Java, Python, SQL, Node, Go, and Scala, Open Source RDBMS and NoSQL databases, Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and a variety of AWS tools and services

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• 8+ years in a technical development or lead role
• Candidates must be certified with AWS Solutions Architect Associate / Professional
• A strong understanding of business technology drivers and their impact on architecture design, performance and monitoring, best practices
• Design and building web environments on AWS, which includes working with services like EC2, ELB, RDS, and S3
• Experience using DevOps tools in a cloud environment, such as Ansible, Artifactory, Docker, GitHub, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Maven, and Sonar Qube
• Experience using monitoring solutions like CloudWatch, Prometheus, Datadog, Splunk
• Knowledge of writing Infrastructure-as-Code (laC), using tools like CloudFormation or Terraform
• Experience with high volume, mission critical applications and their interdependencies with other applications and databases
• Experience with high volume, mission critical applications, and building upon messaging and or event-driven architectures.
• Keen understanding of financial and budget management, control and optimization of Public Cloud expenses

What are the top 3 skills required for this role?

• AWS Cloud - Core Services (ELB, RDS, ECS/EKS, R53,VPC, Lambda,
• Kubernetes
• Jenkins, Ansible, Artifactory

TekWissen® Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.