Consulting Principal AWS Cloud Engineer

Staff Software Engineer - Backend

Responsibilities: <ul><li>Demonstrated ability to drive cultural change and advocate for cloud transformation Key Responsibilities Cloud Strategy &amp; Leadership&nbsp;</li><li>Develop and implement a comprehensive AWS cloud strategy, ensuring alignment with business and technology goals.&nbsp;</li><li>Provide technical leadership and advocacy, championing cloud-native best practices and innovation.&nbsp;</li><li>Lead and drive architectural decisions, ensuring scalability, security, and operational efficiency.</li><li>Cloud Architecture &amp; Design&nbsp;</li><li>Architect secure, scalable, and highly available AWS cloud environments.&nbsp;</li><li>Develop and maintain enterprise-wide cloud blueprints, patterns, and frameworks to drive consistency.&nbsp;</li><li>Research and integrate emerging cloud technologies to foster continuous innovation. Infrastructure as Code &amp; Automation&nbsp;</li><li>Lead adoption and implementation of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, and Helm.&nbsp;</li><li>Design and optimize CI/CD pipelines to streamline cloud deployments and operations.&nbsp;</li><li>Implement self-healing and automated failover mechanisms to enhance resilience and reliability.</li><li>Kubernetes &amp; Cloud-Native Technologies&nbsp;</li><li>Manage and optimize Kubernetes clusters (EKS, Helm, IAM) for scalability and security.&nbsp;</li><li>Define and enforce best practices for containerized applications and orchestration.&nbsp;</li><li>Improve Kubernetes networking, ingress, and observability solutions to enhance performance. Security &amp; Compliance&nbsp;</li><li>Establish and enforce security best practices for AWS environments, including IAM, WAF, Secret Manager, and encryption.&nbsp;</li><li>Implement zero-trust security models and secure multi-account AWS environments.&nbsp;</li><li>Conduct security audits, incident response, and ensure compliance with industry standards. Monitoring, Logging &amp; Reliability Engineering.</li><li>Deploy and manage monitoring tools (DataDog, Splunk, CloudWatch, Coralogix) to ensure visibility and observability.&nbsp;</li><li>Implement SRE principles to enhance system uptime, reliability, and efficiency.&nbsp;</li><li>Conduct post-mortem analysis and drive continuous improvements in cloud performance. Collaboration &amp; Thought Leadership&nbsp;</li><li>Work closely with software developers, system engineers, and security teams to design and implement cloud solutions.&nbsp;</li><li>Provide mentorship, training, and technical leadership to engineering teams.&nbsp;</li></ul> Requirements: <ul><li>10+ years of experience in IT, with at least 5+ years in AWS cloud engineering and architecture.</li><li>Deep understanding of AWS services, including EC2, EKS, RDS, S3, Lambda, VPC, IAM, Transit Gateway, and CloudFormation.&nbsp;</li><li>Expertise in Kubernetes (EKS, Helm, Daemon Sets, StatefulSets, Karpenter, external-dns, aws-cni).&nbsp;</li><li>Strong experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, and automation scripting (Bash, Python, PowerShell).&nbsp;</li><li>Hands-on experience managing CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps).&nbsp;</li><li>Proficiency in monitoring and logging tools (DataDog, Splunk, Coralogix, CloudWatch).&nbsp;</li><li>Strong networking and security knowledge (DNS, VPC, NAT, Security Groups, IAM).&nbsp;</li><li>Experience designing and developing scalable, production-grade software tools and automation scripts using Python. Preferred Certifications&nbsp;</li><li>AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (or equivalent).&nbsp;</li><li>Additional certifications in Kubernetes (CKA), AWS Security, or DevOps are a plus. Leadership &amp; Soft Skills&nbsp;</li><li>Proven experience leading cloud architecture and strategy initiatives.&nbsp;</li><li>Ability to mentor and guide technical teams in a fast-paced, agile environment.&nbsp;</li><li>Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills in complex cloud environments.</li><li>Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate technical concepts for engineering, business, and executive stakeholders.&nbsp;</li></ul>

Responsibilities: Lead your team’s engineering efforts and demonstrate ownership of features, projects, modules, and services that you and your team deliver. Lead design and development efforts of existing and new payment experiences using a wide variety of technologies. Play a key role in the broader architectural decision-making processes. Act as a strong advocate for clean and scalable principles and practices in all areas, including coding, documentation, automation etc. Participate in formal and informal code and design reviews to hold quality high. Be a champion of high-performing, secure, and reliable software services. Identify critical non-functional requirements for the work your team is prioritizing (Availability, Security, Performance, Scalability, etc.) Provide technical leadership to your team across all phases of the software development lifecycle. Collaborate and communicate effectively with all technical and non-technical partners and stakeholders (Architecture, Developer Experience, Product, Design, Analytics, Legal, Marketing, etc.) Work with your Agile team to achieve shared understanding around the new products and features under consideration. Continuously learn by staying on top of the latest technology trends and share your knowledge and experience with your peers, adjacent teams, and across the organization. Collaborate frequently with other developers and teams to design and implement the cutting-edge reliable solutions. Understand and apply our technical architecture to ensure consistent, reliable, and secure deployments. Enhance and maintain existing product capabilities as required. Actively contribute to the test suites to enable speedy and reliable continuous integration. Guide continuous improvements to our build, deploy, and go to market processes. Bring fresh ideas for how to continuously improve our software, and your team. Advocate for ways to avoid and remediate technical debt on an ongoing basis. Actively participate in program planning, influencing the product and technology roadmap, and driving outcomes.  Requirements: You have a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, or a related field of study. You have 8+ years of professional experience in the software industry. You are proficient and have strong skills in Java, object oriented, and functional programming, and are familiar with all related and latest topics and technologies. You care about writing high-quality code, and you've written your fair share of automated tests to back up your code. You're passionate about high-scale, high-throughput, low-latency systems, and about creating compelling experiences and integrations.  You're a problem solver, and you enjoy working both independently and collaboratively to identify the root cause of any issue and solve it with a can-do mindset.  You have experience mentoring less seasoned team members. You are open to and enjoy collaborating with teammates in non-technical roles as well.  Experience in developing software for distributed systems with high performance, scalability, and availability. Familiar and comfortable with the technologies, the tradeoffs, and the design patterns emerging in application development. Experience in developing high performance, scalable and available web services using J2EE and frameworks such as RestEasy, Spring, Apache CXF and Jersey.. Good understanding of web services and SOA related standards like REST/OAuth/JSON and SOAP/WSDL. Experience in payments processing or e-commerce domains. Experience working in a global-scale SaaS environment. Thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment. You have a bias towards action and results. 

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