Cloud Operations Engineer

Job description

Client: City Municipality Located in Tampa Area

Title: Cloud Operations Engineer

Contract Paying - $50/Hr - $55/Hr - 6-month contract to hire with conversion salary of $108K

Work Authorization: USC or Green Card only

Location: State of Florida - Remote

Certifications:

• CJIS Certification
• At least one associate-level AWS certification
• Linux Certification (RHEL Admin preferred)

Experience:

• 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.

Desired Skills:

• 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.

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.