Strategic Staffing Solutions
AWS Cloud Engineer
Locations: Charlotte, NC (Remote Required)
Duration: 6+ Months
Core Technical Skills
- 3+ years of AWS experience
- Hands-on Experience with AWS services – S3, EMR, Glue Jobs, Lambda, Athena, CloudTrail, SNS, SQS, CloudWatch, Step Functions, Opensearch
- Extensive Experience with EMR databases such as Glue Catalog, Lake Formation, Redshift, DynamoDB and Aurora
- Required Tools and Languages – Python, Spark, PySpark and Pandas
- Infrastructure as Code technology- specifically Terraform
- Experience with Secrets Management Platform like Vault and AWS Secrets manager
- Experience with DevOps pipeline (CI/CD) – Bitbucket; Concourse
- Experience with RDBMS platforms and Strong proficiency with SQL
- Deep knowledge of IAM roles and Policies
- Experience using AWS monitoring services like CloudWatch, CloudTrail ad CloudWatch events
- Experience with AWS workflow orchestration tools like Airflow (MWAA), EventBridge, or Step Functions
- Experience with Kafka/Messaging preferably Confluent Kafka
- Experience with Event Driven Architecture
- AWS Cloud Engineer Additional Technical Skills (nice to have, but not required for the role)
- Experience with native AWS technologies for data and analytics such as Kinesis
- Databases – Document DB, Mongo DB
- Hadoop platform (Hive; HBase; Druid)
- Java, Scala, Node JS
- Workflow Automation
- Experience transitioning on premise big data platforms into cloud-based platforms such as AWS
- Strong Background in Kubernetes, Distributed Systems, Microservice architecture and containers
- Experience with Rest APIs and API gateway
- Deep understanding of networking DNS, TCP/IP and VPN
Core Responsibilities:
- Provides technical direction, guides the team on key technical aspects and responsible for product tech delivery
- Lead the Design, Build, Test and Deployment of components
- Where applicable in collaboration with Lead Developers (Data Engineer, Software Engineer, Data Scientist, Technical Test Lead)
- Understand requirements / use case to outline technical scope and lead delivery of technical solution
- Confirm required developers and skillsets specific to product
- Provides leadership, direction, peer review and accountability to developers on the product (key responsibility)
- Works closely with the Product Owner to align on delivery goals and timing
- Assists Product Owner with prioritizing and managing team backlog
- Collaborates with Data and Solution architects on key technical decisions
- The architecture and design to deliver the requirements and functionality
Core Experience and Abilities:
- Ability to perform hands on development and peer review for certain components / tech stack on the product
- Standing up of development instances and migration path (with required security, access/roles)
- Develop components and related processes (e.g. data pipelines and associated ETL processes, workflows)
- Lead implementation of integrated data quality framework
- Ensures optimal framework design and load testing scope to optimize performance (specifically for Big Data)
- Supports data scientist with test and validation of models
- Performs impact analysis and identifies risk to design changes
- Ability to build new data pipelines, identify existing data gaps and provide automated solutions to deliver analytical capabilities and enriched data to applications
- Ensures Test Driven development
- 3+ years of Experience leading teams to deliver complex products
- Strong technical skills and communication skills
- Strong skills with business stakeholder interactions
- Strong solutioning and architecture skills
- 5+ years of Experience building real time data ingestion streams (event driven)
- Ensure data security and permissions solutions, including data encryption, user access controls and logging
Job ID: JOB-221649
Publish Date: 16 Mar 2023