Cloud Engineer

CLOUD AWS ENGINEER - III to Serve the Finance Industry

MANIFEST Technology is seeking a Senior CLOUD AWS ENGINEER with at least six years of experience designing, deploying, and supporting cloud-based solutions in AWS. Candidates should bring strong expertise in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), containerized environments using Docker, and CI/CD practices—particularly leveraging GitLab for automated deployments. The position requires proficiency in Python and data engineering concepts, including ETL pipelines, Apache Spark, data pipelines, serverless architectures, and REST APIs. Successful applicants will be skilled in creating and interpreting complex technical documentation and communicating technical concepts to non-technical audiences. Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Grafana, CloudWatch, OpenSearch, Dynatrace, and OpenTelemetry (Prometheus, Jaeger, ADOT) is essential. In this role, the engineer will manage and administer AWS environments, guide architecture decisions for the observability platform, ensure application reliability and performance, support full lifecycle deployment processes, and collaborate closely with development, SRE, and operations teams. The ideal candidate is a technical leader capable of evaluating new technologies, ensuring compliance with security and audit standards, and contributing to the ongoing improvement of engineering practices and platform stability.

Position type:W-2 US Citizen only; No C2C

Duration: 1 year

Location/Hours: Onsite 5 days a week in Minneapolis, MN

Pay Range: $70-80/hr; W-2; No C2C

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Primary focus with cloud-based technology solutions.
• Evaluate, recommend, and select new software/architecture for the observability platform.
• Manage and administer the AWS cloud environment, including provisioning, configuration, performance monitoring, policy governance and security
• Function as the subject matter expert for coordinating and managing the deployment process and support of the full lifecycle of the observability platform in AWS.
• Prepare detailed guidance from which application programs will be written. Analyze and revise existing system logic and documentation as necessary.
• May authorize risk level changes and recommend solutions to minimize and/or prevent system interruption.
• Provide technical assistance and operational guidelines for business operations and application development to ensure applications are running optimally in production, test, and development environments.
• Work with diverse technologies to design, build (code), test, debug, document, implement and maintain solutions and/or patterns for existing and new systems or hardware within the boundaries of existing standards, processes, or operational plans.
• Ensure that Treasury application services are highly available, reliable, and performant through monitoring and alerting.
• May lead highly technical/complex projects utilizing System, or local staff and resources.
• Follow and ensure adherence to technical standards for programming and design techniques. May train technical staff on use of software/hardware tools in accordance with required standards and procedures. Contributes to development and revision of department standards and procedures.
• Collaborate with the development staff and Site Reliability Engineers to understand the software products and any enhancements that are deployed, consults on issues related to the impact of development on the infrastructure, works with system engineers and developers to define server configuration settings, leads the migration of code through staging environments to production, and assist software quality assurance technicians during system acceptance testing
• Monitor compliance with internal audit requirements and Information Security Manual guidelines.

KEY QUALIFICATIONS

Education and Experience at the Senior Engineer Level:

• Bachelor's degree and a minimum of six (6) years of relevant work experience.
• Experience in AWS
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
• Docker / containerized solutions
• Experience in configuring and deploying multiple deployments through GitLab
• Experience with coding languages - such as Python, Go, and NodeJS/Typescript
• Ability to communicate complex technical topics to non-technical audiences
• Ability to create, read, and comprehend complex technical documentation
• Experience with Observability tools (e.g. Grafana, CloudWatch, OpenSearch, Dynatrace, etc.)
• Experience with OpenTelemetry tools and framework (e.g. Prometheus, Jaeger, ADOT, etc.)

Necessary Skills:

• Data engineering
• Python
• ETL
• Terraform
• CI/CD
• Docker
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Apache Spark
• Data Pipelines
• Serverless computing
• REST APIs

NEXT STEPS:

• Qualified candidates should APPLY NOW for immediate consideration!
• Please send your resume to dslaymaker@MANIFESTtechnology.net and then text/call David Slaymaker at 507-250-4420.