AWS Cloud Engineer
Spectraforce
Merrimack, New Hampshire
6 days ago
Job Description
Position Title: AWS Cloud Engineer
Primary Location: Merrimack, NH
Secondary Location(s): Westlake, TX OR Boston, MA
Duration of Contract: 12 months
Candidate Profile:
The Role:
About Us: SPECTRAFORCE is one of the fastest-growing workforce solutions firms in the United States. As a diversity-owned business, we place human connection at the heart of everything we do, building strong relationships with both clients and candidates to fill roles successfully. Our teams in North and Central America and India serve more than 150 Fortune clients globally, leveraging custom AI technology to provide direct hire, executive search, nearshoring, offshoring, and project staffing solutions.
Benefits: SPECTRAFORCE offers ACA compliant health benefits as well as dental, vision, accident, critical illness, voluntary life, and hospital indemnity insurances to eligible employees. Additional benefits offered to eligible employees include commuter benefits, 401K plan with matching, and a referral bonus program. SPECTRAFORCE provides unpaid leave as well as paid sick leave when required by law.
Equal Opportunity Employer: SPECTRAFORCE is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability or veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Please contact Human Resources at LOA@spectraforce.com if you require reasonable accommodation.
California Applicant Notice: SPECTRAFORCE is committed to complying with the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”) effective January 1, 2023; and all data privacy laws in the jurisdictions in which it recruits and hires employees. A Notice to California Job Applicants Regarding the Collection of Personal Information can be located on our website. Applicants with disabilities may access this notice in an alternative format by contacting NAHR@spectraforce.com.
LA County, CA Applicant Notice: If you are selected for this position with SPECTRAFORCE, your offer is contingent upon the satisfactory completion of several requirements, including but not limited to, a criminal background check. We consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with all local ordinances and state laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers (FCO) and the California Fair Chance Act (FCA). The background check assessment will consider whether a criminal history could reasonably have a direct, adverse impact on the job-related safety, security, trust, regulatory compliance, or suitability for this role. Such findings may result in withdrawal of a conditional job offer.
At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $60.00/hr.
Primary Location: Merrimack, NH
Secondary Location(s): Westlake, TX OR Boston, MA
Duration of Contract: 12 months
Candidate Profile:
- Strong understanding of Kubernetes concepts/ecosystem and deploying applications into AWS EKS.
- Demonstrated experience with building Flask/FastAPI based REST APIs and applying design patterns to solutions.
- Proficient in object-oriented Python
- Experience managing systems using infrastructure as code tools (CloudFormation, OpenTofu, ARM, Ansible …).
- Solid understanding/experience of networking, virtualization, storage, containers, serverless architecture/framework, cloud IAM controls and policies.
The Role:
- Our Cloud Engineering team collaborates with our architects to design and build our foundational cloud components and frameworks. Through innovation and engineering excellence, we forge the path to harness the power of the cloud for all of our engineers. Join our talented team of engineers, designing and building the foundation that propels our business to harness the power of cloud.
- We are looking for a passionate, self-motivated Software Engineer with strong programming fundamentals, software design and practices to help build and manage our cloud platform.
- In this role, you will have a great opportunity to marry your full-stack software engineering skills with hands on cloud development.
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in a technology related field (e.g. Engineering, Computer Science, etc.)
- 5+ years of software engineering experience
- Certifications preferred: AWS Solutions Architect, AWS Developer, or Kubernetes Application Developer.
- Passion for excellence, automation, innovation, and collaboration.
- Eager to learn new technologies, ways of working, and to adapt every day.
- Bring curiosity and a questioning mind-set to work, injecting new points of view to the team.
- Ability to triage, execute root cause analysis, and be decisive under pressure.
- Ability to creatively solve new, interesting problems in a dynamic environment.
- Ability to work with a variety of individuals and groups, both in person and virtually, in a constructive and collaborative manner and build and maintain effective relationships.
- Ability to act confidently and cautiously in break-the-glass production scenarios to resolve customer outages.
- Solid understanding/experience of storage, containers, serverless architecture/framework, cloud IAM controls and policies.
- Hands-on experience building and deploying applications using a variety of Amazon Web Services (primarily Cloud Formation, compute, EBS volumes and container).
- Proficient in object-oriented Python and developing serverless functions with Boto.
- Full-stack development experience across distributed applications and services.
- Ability to apply design patterns and object-orientation to solutions.
- Hands-on experience with containers and container orchestration.
- Experience managing systems using infrastructure as code tools (CloudFormation, Ansible, Terraform, ARM, etc).
- Strong understanding of Kubernetes concepts/ecosystem and deploying applications into EKS.
- Understanding of versioning and release practices (SCM), code collaboration practices (Git)
- Proficiency with CI/CD tools, especially Jenkins.
- Experience executing the Software Development Lifecycle in an agile environment.
- Experience in defining and implementing a comprehensive cloud reliability and observability strategy, ensuring that Fidelity’s cloud systems are always available when our customers need them.
About Us: SPECTRAFORCE is one of the fastest-growing workforce solutions firms in the United States. As a diversity-owned business, we place human connection at the heart of everything we do, building strong relationships with both clients and candidates to fill roles successfully. Our teams in North and Central America and India serve more than 150 Fortune clients globally, leveraging custom AI technology to provide direct hire, executive search, nearshoring, offshoring, and project staffing solutions.
Benefits: SPECTRAFORCE offers ACA compliant health benefits as well as dental, vision, accident, critical illness, voluntary life, and hospital indemnity insurances to eligible employees. Additional benefits offered to eligible employees include commuter benefits, 401K plan with matching, and a referral bonus program. SPECTRAFORCE provides unpaid leave as well as paid sick leave when required by law.
Equal Opportunity Employer: SPECTRAFORCE is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability or veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Please contact Human Resources at LOA@spectraforce.com if you require reasonable accommodation.
California Applicant Notice: SPECTRAFORCE is committed to complying with the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”) effective January 1, 2023; and all data privacy laws in the jurisdictions in which it recruits and hires employees. A Notice to California Job Applicants Regarding the Collection of Personal Information can be located on our website. Applicants with disabilities may access this notice in an alternative format by contacting NAHR@spectraforce.com.
LA County, CA Applicant Notice: If you are selected for this position with SPECTRAFORCE, your offer is contingent upon the satisfactory completion of several requirements, including but not limited to, a criminal background check. We consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with all local ordinances and state laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers (FCO) and the California Fair Chance Act (FCA). The background check assessment will consider whether a criminal history could reasonably have a direct, adverse impact on the job-related safety, security, trust, regulatory compliance, or suitability for this role. Such findings may result in withdrawal of a conditional job offer.
At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $60.00/hr.