[Remote] Senior Cloud Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. NEOGOV is a company focused on public-sector innovation, providing technology solutions to government and education organizations. The Senior Cloud Engineer role involves working closely with the product owner and software engineering team to develop, deliver, and maintain scalable, secure, and compliant cloud infrastructure and SaaS product features, primarily using AWS technologies.
Responsibilities
- 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
Skills
- 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)
- 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
- Strong problem solver with excellent communication skills
- Empathetic and have a growth mindset with a desire to learn and embrace challenges
- Able to learn new technologies quickly and independently
- Innovative and passionate about your work
- Strong Cloud fundamentals with an emphasis on AWS Well-Architected best practices
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Jenkins, MSBuild, and Git
- Experience working in a “compliant” environment (e.g., CJIS, FedRAMP, or SOC2)
Benefits
- Comprehensive Benefits package (medical, dental, vision, etc.) for full-time employees
- Generous PTO to support work-life balance
- Remote working opportunities
- 401K Matching
- Autonomy to grow and find your career path with supportive leadership
- 12-week Paid Parental Leave
- Inclusive and diverse environment
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