Job D5949 Description Click to apply: Please attach resume to mail
SOFT's client located in Richmond / Dallas is looking for a Cloud Engineer - AWS / IaC for a long term contract assignment.

Qualifications:  
  
• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience.  
• 3+ (Senior) / 6+ (Advanced) years of experience providing technical delivery of large projects by working with stakeholders from business, development, and infrastructure domains.  
• 2+ years of experience with Cloud-based technologies and concepts, including virtualization, containerization, and infrastructure as code.  
• Cloud Platform (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc) associate-level certification or equivalent experience Knowledge and hands-on experience developing solutions utilizing DevOps and / or Infrastructure as code.  
• Experience with IaC tools (Terraform, Cloudformation, CDK, etc).  
• Strategic thinking and demonstrated ability to provide high-level technical analysis and thorough research.  
• Experience working with large infrastructure hosting environments including knowledge of Application Hosting, distributed messaging architectures, network technologies (Ex: VPNs, TCP/IP, Firewalls, Routing, etc.), security technologies (Ex: public key cryptography and infrastructure, smart cards, authentication, authorization, etc.).  
• Demonstration of thorough understanding of how discrete infrastructure components work together to provide  

Responsibilities:  

• Serve as a hands-on technical Engineer to provide leadership to products focused on development and implementation of strategic technological initiatives.  
• Develop Infrastructure as Code to support proof of concepts.  
• Review Infrastructure Code developed by peers and product teams to ensure alignment with business objectives and security standards.  
• Provide prioritization and technical leadership to product scrum teams in partnership with Product Owners.  
• Validate that new features meet business needs, security requirements and engineering patterns.  
• Provide technical leadership through design and implementation oversight to ensure alignment with strategic direction and best practices.  
• Lead architectural and engineering discussions for technical, business and management audiences.  
• Partner with Client Engagement teams to help applications adopt our products and integrate their applications into platform offerings.  
• Partner with our customers, National IT, and technical, operational, and business experts to detect critical architectural and infrastructure gaps and deficiencies in the environment and recommend solutions for improvement.  
• Analyze and revise existing system and product documentation as necessary.  
• Authorize risk level changes and recommend solutions to minimize and/or prevent system interruption.  
• Evaluate, recommend, and select new services, software, and hardware.  
• Follow and ensure adherence to technical standards for programming and design techniques, and train System technical staff on use of software/hardware tools in accordance with required standards and procedures.  
• Monitor compliance with internal