AWS Engineer/ AWS Lead

Orion Innovation is a premier, award-winning, global business and technology services firm. Orion delivers game-changing business transformation and product development rooted in digital strategy, experience design, and engineering, with a unique combination of agility, scale, and maturity. We work with a wide range of clients across many industries including financial services, professional services, telecommunications and media, consumer products, automotive, industrial automation, professional sports and entertainment, life sciences, ecommerce, and education.

Role Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled AWS Engineer to design, implement, and manage our cloud infrastructure. In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring that our systems are scalable, resilient, and secure. You will work closely with development and DevOps teams to automate deployments, optimize cloud costs, and maintain high availability across all environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Infrastructure Design: Architect and deploy scalable, high-availability, and fault-tolerant systems on AWS.
• Automation & IaC: Utilize Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform or AWS CloudFormation to automate resource provisioning.
• CI/CD Integration: Build and maintain automated deployment pipelines to support seamless software delivery.
• Monitoring & Optimization: Set up monitoring, logging, and alerting systems (CloudWatch, Prometheus) to ensure system health and optimize performance.
• Cost Management: Monitor cloud spend and implement cost-saving strategies like Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and resource right-sizing.
• Disaster Recovery: Design and test backup and recovery strategies to ensure data integrity and business continuity.
  
  
  

Required Technical Skills

• AWS Core Services: Deep expertise in EC2, S3, VPC, RDS, Lambda, Route 53, and IAM.
• Containerization: Experience with orchestration platforms like Amazon ECS or EKS (Kubernetes).
• Scripting: Proficiency in at least one scripting language (e.g., Python, Bash, or Go) for automation tasks.
• Networking: Strong understanding of cloud networking (Subnets, VPNs, Direct Connect, Load Balancers).
• Database Management: Familiarity with SQL and NoSQL databases (Aurora, DynamoDB, MongoDB).
  
  
  

Qualifications & Experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, or a related field (or equivalent experience).

Experience

5 years of experience managing production workloads in AWS.

Certifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect or SysOps Administrator.

Methodology

Strong understanding of Agile and DevOps methodologies.

Preferred Nice-to-have Skills

• Experience with multi-cloud environments (Azure or GCP).
• Knowledge of serverless architecture and event-driven design.
• Familiarity with third-party monitoring tools like Datadog, New Relic, or Splunk.
• Big-4 or top tier Professional Services experience is a plus.
  
  
  

Orion is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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