What are the responsibilities and job description for the Cloud Engineer position at BCforward?
BCforward is looking for Sr. AWS Cloud Engineer in Jersey City, NJ
Title: Sr. AWS Cloud Engineer
Location: Jersey City, NJ
Duration: 6 months contract to hire
Responsibilities
- Design and deliver AWS infrastructure solutions across networking, compute, storage, and EC2.
- Partner with application teams across the organization to understand business requirements and architect appropriate infrastructure solutions.
- Build, maintain, and deliver reusable Terraform modules consumed by application teams.
- Support cloud infrastructure initiatives across a large, enterprise-scale environment.
- Establish and maintain CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure delivery practices.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to develop scalable, reliable, and secure cloud solutions.
- Evaluate technical requirements, recommend appropriate solutions, and contribute to infrastructure architecture decisions.
- Support continuous improvement of cloud infrastructure capabilities, automation, and engineering practices.
Required Skills & Qualifications
- Strong hands-on AWS experience across networking, compute, and storage. Candidates may have deeper expertise in one or more areas.
- Experience with AWS infrastructure services, including EC2.
- Experience building and delivering Terraform modules or reusable infrastructure-as-code solutions.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automated infrastructure delivery.
- Experience with GitHub and/or bitbucket.
- Strong technical problem-solving and solutioning skills.
- Ability to collaborate with application teams and translate requirements into infrastructure solutions.
- Ability to work effectively in a large enterprise environment and quickly contribute to ongoing engineering initiatives.
- Approximately 5–7 years of relevant experience.
Preferred Skills
- Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Experience with Go (Golang).
- Python experience, particularly for developing or supporting AWS Lambda functions.
- Java development experience, particularly for candidates with strong AWS infrastructure expertise.
- Experience working across multiple engineering teams to design and implement cloud infrastructure solutions.