• JOB TYPE: Freelance, Contract Position (no agencies/C2C - see notes below)
• LOCATION: Remote Global
• HOURLY RANGE: Our client is looking to pay $100 – $125/hr
• ESTIMATED DURATION: 40h/week - Long-term 

ABOUT US:

Braintrust is the only network that gives in-demand talent all the freedom of freelance with all the benefits, community, and stability of a full-time role. As the first decentralized talent network, our revolutionary Web3 model ensures the community that relies on Braintrust to find work are the same people who own and build it through the blockchain token, BTRST. So unlike other marketplaces that take 20% to 50% of talent earnings, Braintrust allows talent to keep 100% of earnings and to vote on key changes to improve the network. Braintrust is working to change the way freelance works – for good.

We've onboarded some of the world's most reputable brands and now we need a Cloud Engineer (AWS)for one of our clients.

THE OPPORTUNITY

Our client helps organizations migrate to the cloud, transform their value proposition, and optimize their operational and technical investment.

Job Description

The Platform Engineering team, is looking to hire an experienced and highly motivated Principal Cloud Engineer. As part of this team, you will be working closely with the team to design, automate, and implement industry leading solutions to support clients through their digital transformation journey. In this role, you will play a crucial part in shaping the future infrastructure design and implementation for many customers for years to come!

Key Responsibilities

The position requires limited supervision and works mostly independently.
Responsibilities include:
Providing technical leadership, deep technology expertise and
architecture experience.
Provides hands-on technical design and implementation ensuring
technologies are successfully incorporated into their environments
Designs and defines AWS architecture for new cloud computing systems
or existing systems migrating to cloud architectures.
Performs expert-level systems AWS development and design work that
may include logical system design; I/O design; cloud architecture analysis
and design; and systems engineering.
Creation Cloud/Infrastructure automation as needed (Ansible)
Ability to develop technical roadmaps for future AWS cloud
implementations.
Ensures security is integrated into all cloud architecture solutions.
Design, test, certify and document new cloud services, environments and
systems.
Provide technical mentor other members of the cloud engineering team.
Follow industry trends and build proof of concepts leveraging new cloud
services.

Experience Requirements
The expected length of relevant prior experience beyond formal education is 8 or
more years.

The position requires the following technical skills:
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional preferred but not
required
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional preferred but not required
Advanced knowledge of cloud technologies and cloud infrastructure,
including networking, VPCs, VGWs, VPNs, DNS. AWS preferred.
Advanced knowledge of industry standard DevOps tools (CI/CD, Git, scripting,
Gradle, Maven, Chef, git, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.).
Solid understanding of cloud computing design and security principles.
Detail-oriented, with excellent analytical, technical and problem-solving skills.
Familiarity with software development projects from documentation, task
management through delivery.
Experience writing technical documentation for a technical audience.
Strong commitment to customer service and service enablement.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Ability to communicate effectively with end-users, business owners,
developers, managers and system engineers.

Ability to thrive in a fast paced and dynamic environment.

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ABOUT THE HIRING PROCESS:

Qualified candidates will be invited to do a screening interview with the Braintrust staff. We will answer your questions about the project, and our platform. If we determine it is the right fit for both parties, we'll invite you to join the platform and create a profile to apply directly for this project.

C2C Candidates: This role is not available to C2C candidates working with an agency. But if you are a professional contractor who has created an LLC/corp around your consulting practice, this is well aligned with Braintrust and we’d welcome your application.

Braintrust values the multitude of talents and perspectives that a diverse workforce brings. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status.