STRATEGIC STAFFING SOLUTIONS (S3) HAS AN OPENING!
Cloud Engineer
St. Louis, MO (Hybrid/onsite 3 days per week)
12+ Months with opportunity to convert
W2 Contract; C2C is not available for this role
*Must be able to convert to perm
Position Summary
- Support internal teams and provide ongoing production and operational support.
- Investigate and resolve production issues, incident tickets, and operational requests.
- Work with new teams to onboard them onto the organization’s development platforms and standards.
- Assist teams with adoption of CI/CD pipelines, GitHub, and other development tooling.
- Collaborate closely with development teams to ensure proper setup and integration with platform services.
- Partner with the Application Security (AppSec) and Cybersecurity teams to ensure security policies, standards, and compliance requirements are followed.
- Support and maintain the existing platform and operational environment.
- Work on continuous improvements related to platform reliability, development processes, and security practices.
Required Qualifications
- 7+ years in DevOps / DevSecOps / platform engineering
- Hands-on administration of an enterprise CI platform (Jenkins/CloudBees preferred) and pipeline development using shared/reusable libraries
- Practical GitHub Actions experience — workflows, reusable workflows, runners, secrets
- Strong hands-on AWS (EKS, EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, Route 53, KMS, EFS) and production Kubernetes
- Terraform at production scale — modules, state management, multi-environment, pipeline-driven plan/apply; plus Helm and Docker
- Pipeline security tooling: SAST, SCA, SBOM, container scanning, quality gates
- Linux administration and troubleshooting
- Networking — TCP/IP, DNS, routing, firewalls, load balancing, proxies, VPN/Transit Gateway, packet-level diagnostics
- Certificates and TLS — PKI, issuance, and renewal, truststores, mTLS
- Identity — LDAP, Azure AD / SAML / OIDC, SSO, SCIM, RBAC
- Scripting in Python, Bash, and Groovy
- Ability to work independently with broad ownership; strong documentation discipline; participation in on-call rotation
Education
- Bachelor’s degree is required
*Beware of scams. S3 never asks for money during its onboarding process