Infrastructure Cloud Engineer

Infrastr ucture Cloud Engineer

HIGHLIGHTS

Location: Â Wilmington, NC or Mclean, VA (Hybrid)Â
Position Type: Â Contract to HireÂ
Hourly / Salary: Â Based on experience

Job Summary

Our client is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Infrastructure Cloud Engineer to join our team. You will play a critical role in designing, implementing, and maintaining the reliability, scalability, and performance of our client's cloud-based systems hosted in AWS. You will collaborate closely with software engineers, operations teams, and other stakeholders to enhance system reliability and developer productivity through automation, monitoring, and incident response.

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Responsibilities          Â

• Design and implement scalable, reliable, and secure cloud infrastructure in AWS.

• Develop and maintain monitoring, alerting, and dashboarding solutions to ensure system health and uptime.

• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management using tools like Terraform (Terragrunt), CDK and CloudFormation

• Implement CI/CD pipelines to streamline deployments and improve development workflows.

• Respond to incidents, perform root cause analysis, and implement permanent fixes to prevent recurring issues.

• Optimize system performance, reliability, and cost-effectiveness in collaboration with engineering teams.

• Drive infrastructure improvements and advocate for best practices in system design and operations.

• Establish and manage disaster recovery plans, ensuring system availability during unexpected events.

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Minimum Education

• Computer Science

Preferred Education

• Master’s degree in computer science

Minimum Experience             Â

• 5 years

Preferred

• Experience 8 years

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Minimum Skills           Â

•             Argo CD and Argo Workflows

•             IaC: Terraform and Terragrunt

•             Kubernetes and Linkerd

•             AWS (EKS, Fargate, Aurora)

•             Security and Compliance

•             Containerization (Docker)

•             Logging and Monitoring Tools

•             Programming Scripting Language

•             DB Management

•             Version Control (Git)

•             Incident Management

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Preferred Skills            Â

•             Experience with Datadog

•             Experience with Cloudflare

•             Mortgage Domain Knowledge

•             Advanced Security Practices (GuardDuty, Security Hub)

•             Disaster Recovery Planning

•             Experience with workflow automation tools such as Camunda

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Minimum Certification(s) Â Â Â Â Â

• AWS Associate (Solutions Architect)

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Preferred Certification(s) Â Â Â Â Â Â

• AWS Professional (DevOps Engineer)

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