Senior Cloud Engineer/Solutions Architect Jersey City, NJ - 3 days a week onsite Contract to hire Client : Jefferies Rate : $85-100/hr on C2C USC/GC Only Must Have : Local Only with investment banking domain , project duration should be long , no jumpy resumes. Must Have : AWS Solutions Architect-AWS Professional Certification Must have : 15+ years exp. Security, AIS, IAM, AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Unix/Linux - Must have Client : Jefferies. Qualifications: 15+ years of relevant experience Must have AWS Professional Certification Advanced cloud implementation experience using compute, storage, networking and security services and cloud native best Practices on AWS. Proven background working in an Enterprise IT environment. Familiar with IaC tools, Terraform, CloudFormation Design capabilities aligned with the well-architected framework EC2, Unix/Linux, User Data, Ansible Kubernetes, Serverless Experience with Kafka a plus Networking and Security Identity and Access Management (IAM) Python, Docker Experience collaborating with Infrastructure and Application teams Self-disciplined, self-starter who can provide leadership and mentor others while resolving complex incident and delivering projects Knowledge of SDLC and CI/CD best practices Azure experience not required, but nice to have Responsibilities: Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines that deploy customers' applications to cloud infrastructure while promoting security and cloud computing best practices. Use infrastructure as code tools to automate immutable infrastructure Manage, configuration, administration, and maintain AWS services Provide guidance to Application and Business teams on infrastructure design decisions Collaborate and liaise with various technical teams on escalations, development of cloud and managed services Drive DevOps team process improvement wit Enterprise IT cloud management capabilities Identify opportunities for threat management and critical upgrades Utilize enterprise SaaS products to align with business technology needs Continuously learn to keep up with industry trends and best practices Manage multiple projects simultaneously and can adapt to changing business needs Work well with cross functional global and remote teams.