Cloud Engineer

Job Title: Cloud Engineer

Location: Remote

Job-Type: Contract

Salary Range: $125K - $150K

Referral Fee: $1,000

Position Overview:

We are seeking a hands-on Cloud Engineer to support a highly reliable, high-volume Web Services team operating primarily on AWS. This role focuses on running and improving cloud-based services that handle billions of requests per year, supporting ongoing cloud migrations, and ensuring uptime, performance, and cost efficiency. The engineer will work closely with Java/React development teams that understand cloud concepts but rely on this role for deep cloud engineering expertise.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Operate, maintain, and improve highly available AWS-based web services with strict uptime expectations
• Respond to incidents, troubleshoot issues, and support day-to-day operational needs (no fixed daily routine)
• Own cloud operational excellence, including monitoring, alerting, and reporting (CloudWatch)
• Support migration of remaining on-prem services to AWS
• Drive cost efficiency and FinOps practices, including resource tagging and usage optimization
• Contribute to 2026 planning, capacity, and utilization forecasting
• Partner with developers and a portfolio architect to implement and evolve cloud architectures for new initiatives
• Create and maintain operational and knowledge base documentation in ServiceNow

Required Experience & Skills:

• Strong AWS experience in production environments
• Experience with Docker and/or other containerization tools
• Experience with AWS tools/services such as Fargate, CloudFront, CloudWatch (monitoring and reporting), SNS, SQS, etc.
• Experience supporting hybrid environments (AWS on-prem VMs, Oracle on-prem)

Nice to Have Experience:

• DevSecOps experience, especially related to cloud migration and promotion
• CloudFoundry exposure
• Java-based backend services (engineering support level, not pure app dev)
• Familiarity with React front-end environments
• Exposure to mobile testing workflows