[Remote] Cloud Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Elios is a cloud-first managed services and consulting firm, an AWS Premier partner specializing in commercial cloud projects. They are hiring a Cloud Engineer to design, build, and optimize AWS infrastructure for customer-facing delivery projects, ensuring technical quality and efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and optimize AWS cloud infrastructure that maps to real customer business objectives
• Stand up VPC resources (subnets, network ACLs, security groups) and create IAM users, roles, and policies on least-privilege principles
• Write Infrastructure-as-Code in Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS CDK to keep environments repeatable and sustainable
• Build CI/CD pipelines, and deploy, test, and document dev, pre-production, and production environments
• Create gold images and AMIs, configure auto scaling groups, and set up MFA across virtual and hardware devices
• Use resource tagging and cost analysis to configure infrastructure for both technical performance and budget efficiency
• Execute migration plans, including VM migrations with tools like AWS MGN, VMware HCX, Veeam, and Clumio, then confirm the move and decommission on-prem resources
• Advise developers on AWS architecture and design tenets, and meet with the team daily to track progress and hold each other accountable on implementation approach

Skills

• 3+ years of DevOps or SRE experience in AWS environments or supporting software development teams, including at least one year each of: developing AWS cloud infrastructure, Terraform, building CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub, Azure DevOps), and creating automated alerts and monitoring dashboards
• Strong working knowledge of leading AWS cloud security practices
• Proficient with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform or CloudFormation) and configuration management tooling such as Ansible, Chef, or Puppet
• Comfortable in at least one programming or scripting language (Python, Java, or Groovy)
• Working knowledge of both Agile and Waterfall SDLC methodologies
• Able to support multiple clients in parallel, with sharp attention to detail and strong communication and time management
• Terraform Enterprise or Terraform Cloud, and broader HashiCorp tooling (Vault, Consul, Boundary)
• Container development and orchestration with Kubernetes, Docker, or AWS EKS
• Static and dynamic code analysis inside CI/CD pipelines, plus observability tools like AWS X-Ray, AppDynamics, or Dynatrace
• AWS Associate certifications (Developer, SysOps Administrator, or Solutions Architect) or HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate

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