Senior Cloud Application Engineer

Senior Cloud Application Engineer

Cincinnati, OH

Type: Contract

Category: Development

Industry: Financial Services

Reference : JN -

Date Posted: 02/01/2026

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Description:

Onsite in Cincinnati, OH

Our client is a large U.S. financial institution headquartered in Cincinnati with extensive branch and ATM networks across multiple states. The organization ranks on the Fortune 500 and is among the largest banks in the United States, reflecting a long history formed by predecessor bank mergers.

Due to client requirements, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Rate: $90.00 to $100.00/hr. w2

Responsibilities

• Maintain platform uptime, performance, stability, and scalability.

• Design and guide system architecture, and mentor peers on design decisions.

• Develop and maintain public APIs.

• Deliver robust and extensible solutions from feature requests.

• Work with big data technologies such as Kafka, Hadoop, and Spark.

• Collaborate with Data Scientists to develop value-added features.

• Partner with DBAs to create ETL and data warehouse systems.

• Automate solutions with Operations to increase service reliability.

• Monitor production systems and address platform-related issues.

• Build tools and processes supporting analytics, monitoring, machine learning, and data warehousing.

• Define and implement strategies for networking, backups, and distributed configurations.

• Provision, configure, maintain, back up, and monitor on-premises and cloud server resources.

• Define and implement deployment strategies for client-facing and internal tools.

• Improve and tune alerting and monitoring systems.

• Refactor Apex code for increased data volume and performance.

• Update integration logic for new products and data structures.

• Create unit tests and deployment-ready code aligned with Salesforce best practices.

• Document code changes and performance improvements.

• Install and maintain cloud-based applications and infrastructure.

• Analyze business requirements and propose solutions that meet security standards.

• Architect, deploy, and administer services across cloud providers.

• Troubleshoot converged infrastructure across compute, storage, and network.

• Engineer and perform capacity management for infrastructure solutions.

• Monitor system uptime and performance and resolve errors.

• Stay informed on emerging cloud technologies and assess operational value.

Experience Requirements

• AWS proficiency.

• Jenkins CI/CD experience.

• Spring Boot Java experience.

• Advanced Apex programming and Salesforce development experience.

• Knowledge of Salesforce APIs, triggers, and batch processing.

• Experience optimizing code for high-volume data loads.

• Familiarity with integration patterns and external connectivity.

• Strong debugging and performance tuning skills.

• Experience in software and systems development.

• Background in Linux administration.

• Experience with cloud providers such as AWS, Digital Ocean, or Google Cloud.

• Understanding of IT security best practices.

• Experience with automation and configuration tools such as Puppet or Ansible.

• Experience with container orchestration such as Docker Swarm or Kubernetes.

• Understanding of computer networks.

• Expertise with server operating systems including Windows and Linux.

• Experience with desktop virtualization.

• Experience with Active Directory and identity management.

• Expertise in continuous integration and continuous delivery practices.

• Ability to use open source technologies and cloud services.

• Proficiency with scripting languages such as PHP, Python, Perl, Power Shell, or Ruby.

• Experience with automated build and deploy processes and tools.

• Experience monitoring and designing for cloud environments.

• Expert-level knowledge of Git.

• Experience working in Agile environments.

• 10+ years of Java application development, microservices, and EDA with Kafka (preferred).

• Kubernetes and Open Shift Red Hat experience (preferred).

• Strong skills in Java, Spring, and Spring Boot beyond the core requirements (preferred).

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Eliassen Group values transparency in our recruitment practices. Please be advised that Eliassen Group utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) tools as part of its initial application screening process. You may receive email and SMS notifications from the Eliassen Virtual Recruiting Team (, ) inviting you to complete a brief voice screening as part of your application process. These tools assist our hiring teams in different ways, including but not limited to, assistance in reviewing application materials to help identify candidates whose qualifications most closely match the requirements of the position.

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