Sr. Cloud Engineer

About the job Overview Connection has a fantastic opportunity through our Technical Staffing division for a Senior Cloud Engineer. This is a contract-to-hire opportunity and is 100% remote. Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time. Responsibilities Design and evolve AWS architecture for scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency Standardize infrastructure patterns and reusable templates to deploy infrastructure across dev, stage and production environments Design and maintain build and deployment pipelines Implement monitoring and alerting (CloudWatch, third-party tools), logging and tracing, health checks and synthetic monitoring Diagnose and resolve production incidents, performance bottlenecks, lead root-cause analysis and post-incident reviews Create and manage user accounts for SSO access to internal systems Communicate on all open projects and give updates to technology team staff Qualifications 5+ years AWS serverless architecture and administration 2+ years Infrastructure as Code 2+ years Creating CI/CD pipelines for web deployment and dbt 2+ years IAM and cloud security 2+ years Cloud networking basics 2+ years RDS administration Ability to manage multiple projects and meet deadlines Okta configuration Snowflake, big data administration Multi-region data center management and disaster recovery. Because of the possibility for fraudulent job postings on many popular job boards, please be advised that Connection will never offer a position of employment without a complete interview process and communication with a “live person".