[Remote] Senior AWS Cloud Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Serco supports the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services Eligibility Support contract by developing, maintaining, and managing critical infrastructure. The Senior AWS Cloud Engineer will design, build, and operate scalable, secure, and resilient AWS-based solutions, with a focus on containerized workloads, infrastructure as code, platform standardization, production ownership, and automation.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and operate AWS-based infrastructure that supports containerized applications (ECS, EKS, Kubernetes) while ensuring solutions are designed with operability, scalability, and resilience in mind for production environments
- Implement and maintain best practices for efficient resource utilization and cost optimization, monitor and optimize system performance and reliability and Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and address operational challenges
- Collaborate with Application Development teams during engineering design discussions and Translate application requirements and user stories into clear AWS/TFE implementation strategies
- Own and support production environments, ensuring high availability and optimal performance as well as lead troubleshooting and root cause analysis for complex production issues
- Build, manage, and optimize container platforms using Elastic Container Service (ECS), Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) while supporting the migration and modernization of workloads towards container-based architectures
- Design and maintain infrastructure using Terraform, with a strong emphasis on Terraform Enterprise (TFE), Develop reusable modules and workflows to ensure consistent infrastructure deployment
- Automate provisioning, configuration, and deployment processes across multiple AWS accounts
- Implement AWS security best practices, including Identity and Access Management (IAM), network segmentation, and encryption as well as Support compliance with relevant frameworks, such as NIST 800-53 / FedRAMP (as applicable)
- Establish standardized deployment patterns, including continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD), GitOps, blue/green, and canary deployments
- Promote the adoption of standardized platform patterns and Terraform Enterprise while identifying opportunities to enhance developer experience and reduce operational friction
- Drive incremental improvements in platform capabilities and delivery processes
Skills
- Ability to obtain and/or maintain a publuc trust
- A bachelor's degree
- Willing to accept 4 years of relevant experience in lieu of a bachelor's degree
- A minimum of 4 years of experience in Linux systems engineering, cloud engineering, or related roles (Or a minimum of 8 years is required without a bachelor's degree)
- Experience with AWS services (EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, etc.)
- Hands-on experience with container platforms (ECS, EKS, Kubernetes, or OpenShift)
- Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform preferred; TFE strongly preferred)
- Experience in incident response, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and version control systems (GitLab or similar)
- Ability to understand networking, security, and system design principles
- Ability to communication and collaborate across teams
- Proficiency in observability tools (OpenSearch, Prometheus, Grafana)
- Experience in regulated environments (FedRAMP, NIST, CMS ARS)
- AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, SysOps, etc.)
- Experience supporting platform engineering or internal developer platforms
Benefits
- Performance-based incentives
- Comprehensive health coverage
- Health savings accounts
- Retirement plans
- Life and disability insurance
- Time-off programs that support work-life balance
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Robust vacation and sick leave benefits
- Flexible work arrangements where permitted by role or contract
- 401(k) plan that includes employer matching funds
- Tuition reimbursement program
- Optional pet insurance
- Optional home and auto insurance
- Optional additional life and accident insurance
- Optional critical illness insurance
- Optional group legal coverage
- Optional ID theft protection
- Birth, adoption, and parental leave benefits
- Employee Assistance Plan
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