Cloud Operations Engineer

Summary

Join our team as a Cloud Operations Engineer! This is a 6-month contract-to-hire position located remotely in Florida, paying $50-$55/hour, with a conversion salary of $108K. You will design, plan, provision, and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure, including containers. This role requires 4-10 years of experience with at least 2+ years in AWS, along with specific AWS service expertise and scripting skills. You will ensure high availability and implement monitoring, patching, and automation. The ideal candidate will also possess experience with IaC and container technologies. This position may require some weekend support.

Requirements

• Must have 4-10 years of experience with a minimum of 2+ years of experience in AWS
• Must have AWS EC2 (Amazon Linux - must, RedHat - must, Windows Server - highly desired) and ELB (Application and Network load balancer)
• AWS Storage and System Manager Services
• Must have patching and automation experience
• Experience with each of the Systems Manager Node, Change Management, and Operations tools
• Experience implementing AWS Cloud Monitoring and Alerting with CloudWatch, especially for EC2, ELB, EFS, EBS, and RDS
• AWS Backup and Disaster Recovery implementation experience
• Scripting experience in Python, Bash, or similar and proficient in using Git
• CJIS Certification
• At least one associate-level AWS certification
• Linux Certification (RHEL Admin preferred)

Responsibilities

• Design, plan, provision, and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure, including containers
• Ensure the highest level of Cloud systems and infrastructure availability
• Provides expert guidance and leadership to colleagues
• Ensure critical systems are monitored, patched, and maintained
• Migrate infrastructure with zero downtime to a highly available, scalable, secure Cloud solution
• Build automations that include IaC through the DevOps Pipeline
• Some after-hours weekend support may be required to maintain mission-critical integrations for some county organizations operating 24/7

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience architecting enterprise-level cloud infrastructures on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Writing Infrastructure-as-Code using tools like CloudFormation or Terraform
• Experience with Containers (ECS, EKS, Fargate, and Docker)
• Experience with AWS Networking concepts including but not limited to VPC, Subnet, Security Group, NACL, DNS, Transit Gateways
• Strong knowledge of Control Tower, Lambda, SQS, SNS, S3, and IAM is a plus