Cloud Engineer

About the Role

We are seeking a skilled Cloud Application Engineer to join our on-site team in Garden City, NY. The ideal candidate has strong experience with AWS cloud infrastructure, solid SQL development skills, and exposure to .NET application environments.

Responsibilities

• Implement, maintain and troubleshoot AWS cloud infrastructure for scalability, reliability, and performance.
• Build and enhance CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Manage SQL databases, including backups, upgrades, migrations, performance monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Collaborate with developers to automate deployment of and manually deploy .NET applications in the cloud environment.
• Implement infrastructure as code (IaC) using CloudFormation or Terraform.
• Monitor and troubleshoot production systems to ensure uptime and efficiency.
• Contribute to architecture and design discussions focused on cloud optimization and modernization.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to ensure secure, efficient, and well-documented deployments.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience with AWS services (e.g., EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, ECS, CloudWatch, Cognito, IAM).
• Experience implementing DevOps practices including CI/CD automation and environment provisioning.
• Proficiency in SQL and database development best practices.
• Exposure to .NET (C#, ASP.NET, or .NET Core) and comfort collaborating with application teams.
• Familiarity with scripting and automation using PowerShell, Python, Go, or Bash.
• Strong understanding of cloud networking, security, and monitoring.
• Ability to work on-site in Garden City, NY.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with microservices and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code and configuration management tools.
• Exposure to data pipelines or analytics workloads within AWS.
• Familiarity with BitBucket Pipelines, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins or other CI/CD systems.
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Experience with JIRA and Confluence.