Sr. AWS Cloud Engineer

About Us

We're looking for a Sr. AWS Cloud Engineer to join our team and work closely with the product owner and a team of other software engineers to ensure the SaaS product we're delivering meets our industry-leading quality standards.

What You Will Do

• Work as a software engineer developing, delivering, and maintaining features such as Infrastructure as Code (IaC), our build and release platform, or customer-facing features.
• Design and deploy scalable, highly available, secure, and fault-tolerant systems.
• Maintain and ensure compliance in a high-performance production environment.
• Deliver your work in a reliable and maintainable manner by writing clean, testable code.
• Actively participate in planning work for the team and identify ways to improve team velocity and quality.
• Maintain, test, and implement disaster recovery procedures.
• Perform infrastructure upgrades and updates to maximize system efficiency while minimizing downtime.

Who You Are

• A strong problem solver with excellent communication skills.
• Empathetic with a growth mindset and a desire to learn and embrace challenges.
• Strong ability to learn new technologies quickly and independently.
• Innovative and passionate about your work.

What You Have

• A desire to work in an operations environment that aspires to DevOps and SRE principles.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, a related field, or equivalent professional work experience.

Must-Have Requirements

• Expertise in AWS CDK: Deep, hands-on experience using the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) to define infrastructure using modern programming languages.
• 7+ years of experience in cloud engineering with a focus on AWS services, including CloudFormation, Auto Scaling, ECS, and Serverless architectures.
• Software development experience with TypeScript, C#, or Java (essential for CDK implementation).

Nice-to-Have

• Strong Cloud fundamentals with an emphasis on AWS Well-Architected best practices.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Jenkins, MS Build, and Git.
• Experience working in a "compliant" environment (e.g., CJIS, FedRAMP, or SOC2).