What are the responsibilities and job description for the Cloud Engineer position at System Soft Technologies?
AWS Platform Engineer (Only W2)
Location: Reston, VA/ Hybrid
Duration: 12 Months
Inperson Interview
Locals Only
Qualifications:
-10 years of overall experience in IT including hands-on Development and Systems engineering background.
-Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field; master’s degree preferred.
-[5-10] years of experience in cloud engineering and automation, with a focus on AWS cloud services.
-Minimum of 5 years must be in AWS Cloud Automation and Administration.
-3 years of experience with implementation of Containerization (Kubernetes), AI workloads, Cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, or Google, etc.), DevOps tool chain (Jenkins, Artifactory, bitbucket, etc.), and technical patterns (IaC, Automated Provisioning/Release, CI/CD, etc.)
-Must be well versed in Terraform automation, Ansible playbooks, and Python code.
-In-depth knowledge of AWS services and solutions, including but not limited to EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, CloudFormation, and CloudWatch.
-Strong understanding of cloud architecture principles, design patterns, and best practices for building scalable, resilient, and secure cloud environments.
-Proficiency in infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or AWS CloudFormation.
-Exposure to Artificial intelligence patterns and engineering of AWS solutions. Good knowledge of leveraging Amazon Kendra, Lambda, Bedrock, Rag models etc.
-Minimum of 1 AWS certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer is required.
-Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment preferred.
-Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), and serverless computing is a plus.