DevOps AWS Cloud Engineer (Remote)

We have an immediate need for a contract DevOps AWS Cloud Engineer to join a premier management consulting firm. The DevOps AWS Cloud Engineer will play a crucial role in designing, implementing, and maintaining the infrastructure and deployment pipelines on the AWS cloud platform.

Location: Remote

This job expects to pay about $70 - 75 per hour plus benefits.

What You Will Do: 

• Design, build, and maintain highly available and scalable infrastructure on AWS cloud platform.
• Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines for automated code deployment and release management.
• Collaborate with development teams to optimize application architecture and performance on AWS.
• Configure and manage AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, ECS, Lambda, and CloudFormation.
• Monitor system health and performance, and troubleshoot issues to ensure high availability and performance.
• Implement and enforce security best practices, including IAM roles, security groups, and network access control.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement infrastructure requirements.
• Provide guidance and mentorship to junior team members.
• Stay updated with the latest AWS services, features, and best practices, and propose innovative solutions.

What Gets You The Job: 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related fieldterra.
• Minimum 5-7 years of professional experience in DevOps roles, with a focus on AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Strong knowledge and experience with AWS services and infrastructure components.
• Proficiency in scripting and automation using languages like Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Puppet, or Chef.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or AWS CodePipeline.
• Strong understanding of networking concepts and experience with VPC, VPN, and subnets.
• Solid understanding of security best practices and experience implementing security controls on AWS.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Knowledge of monitoring and logging tools such as CloudWatch, ELK Stack, or Prometheus.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker.
• Expertise in Python and shell scripting, yaml and jinja2 templates to build github actions workflows
• Expertise in Git to develop and manage Github branching using custom as well as industrywide followed trunk based models.
• Terraform expertise to build CI/CD pipelines

Irvine Technology Corporation (ITC) is a leading provider of technology and staffing solutions for IT, Security, Engineering, and Interactive Design disciplines servicing startups to enterprise clients, nationally. We pride ourselves in the ability to introduce you to our intimate network of business and technology leaders – bringing you opportunity coupled with personal growth, and professional development!  Join us. Let us catapult your career!

Irvine Technology Corporation provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Irvine Technology Corporation complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities.