ASSYST is seeking an AWS Cloud Engineer to support our government client based in Austin, TX.

Position will be 4 days remote with 1 day (Thursdays) required to be onsite at the location listed above. The program will only accept LOCAL ONLY candidates for this position.

Responsibilities:

• Understands business objectives and problems, identifies alternative solutions, performs studies and cost/benefit analysis of alternatives. 

• Analyzes user requirements, procedures, and problems to automate processing or to improve existing computer system: Confers with personnel of organizational units involved to analyze current operational procedures, identify problems, and learn specific input and output requirements, such as forms of data input, how data is to be; summarized, and formats for reports. 

• Writes detailed description of user needs, program functions, and steps required to develop or modify computer programs. 

• Reviews computer system capabilities, specifications, and scheduling limitations to determine if requested program or program change is possible within the existing system.

Minimum requirements:

• 8 years of experience in cloud engineering with at least 5 years focused on core AWS services

• Extensive experience in implementing highly available, fault tolerant cloud systems, and who have experience with monitoring tools, containerization and implementing CI/CD pipelines.

• Experience automating deployments using CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ansible and similar tools

• Experience with serverless architecture

• Designing and implementing high availability and fault tolerant systems

• Experience with monitoring tools, including cloudwatch, Prometheus, Grafana, and splunk

• Experience in containerization, proficient with ECS, EKS, and/or fargate

• Strong skills in Python, Bash, or other scripting/programming languages

• Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills

• AWS certifications strongly preferred

• Ability to be adaptable and succeed in an environment where you may be given tasks that have clear goals but require you to find answers, understand the situation, and determine the steps and process to complete.

ASSYST is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, military status, national origin or any other characteristic protected under federal, state, or applicable local law.