Lead AWS Cloud Engineer

Direct Hire 

Apex Systems is supporting a fortune 200 company out of Cleveland Ohio with a Lead AWS Cloud Engineer. The Lead Amazon Web Services Cloud Engineer manages processes and technologies that enable business value by delivering high quality software at speed and scale. The role focuses on standardized architectures and platforms that are built and managed via automation. The incumbent is responsible for the leading the design, documentation, configuration, support, and enablement of cloud native solutions in a global ecommerce environment.

Education Requirements

Bachelor’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in a Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Information Technology field of study (e.g., Information Technology, Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, Computer Systems Management, Mathematics) or equivalent experience

Must Haves 

8+ years of IT experience

5+ years of hands-on Amazon Web Services cloud engineering and administration experience

Strong experience supporting the Amazon Web Services stack - VPCs, EC2, S3, EKS, Availability Zones, Security Groups, ELB/ALB, Control Tower, CloudFront, Lambda, IAM and similar technologies

3+ years hands on experience working with Kubernetes and container orchestration

Understand concepts of security related tooling and scanning (Web App Firewall, SAST, DAST)

Knowledge of Apache based Webserver, or Nginx

Experience supporting Linux or *nix operating systems

Ability to break down work in manageable pieces to delegate to junior team members

Nice to Haves 

Strong understanding of cloud and infrastructure components (compute, storage, network, data, and applications) to deliver end-to-end cloud Infrastructure architectures, designs & recommendations

Understanding of Infrastructure as Code approaches to infrastructure management

Skilled in infrastructure-as-code languages such as CloudFormation or Terraform

Knowledge of LDAP concepts and experience working with a LDAP Directory

Experience with Agile development and release practices

Take an active role in continuous improvement of software development tools, methodologies, and policies