AWS Cloud Engineer Job Denver area,Colorado USA,IT/Tech

Primary Responsibilities:

Work in tandem with our internal and external customers to identify and implement proper cloud based solutions.
Demonstrate exceptional problem solving skills
Help ensure cloud compute uptime, scalability, and maintainability.
Champion managing cloud environments in accordance with cloud best practices and security guidelines.
Assist with automated backup and recovery of systems running in the cloud environments
Participate in an on-call rotation that provides 24x7 platform support.
Lead vendors through feature tracking and prioritization
Stay technically curious, research and implement new technical solutions
Support integration with multiple cloud service providers

Preferred

Skills:

Operational experience with scripting languages (Python, Bash)
Operational experience with s3 CLI and API scripting
Operational experience with middleware and telecom
Operational experience with Linux distributions
Operation experience with Ethernet, TCP/IP, routing protocols and general network communications
Operational experience using or migrating continuous integration (CI) and continuous integration (CD) pipeline solutions or tools, including Git, Jenkins, Code Pipeline, and Code Commit
Operational experience of virtualization and containerized orchestration technologies, such as Kubernetes and Docker (including disconnected installation, Kubernetes administration, and Kubernetes troubleshooting)
Operational experience with Kubernetes networking, load balancing, pod security
Operational experience of Kubernetes operational building blocks (Kube API, Kube Scheduler, Kube Controller Manager and etcd)
Operational experience with Linux systems administration, networking, and troubleshooting
Operational experience with, but not limited to, EC2, ALB/NLB, S3, IAM, Auto-Scaling, Cloud Watch, RDS, Cloud Front, API Gateway, Lambda, Dynamo

DB, RDS, Aurora, Elastic Search, SSM, KMS, Kinesis, SNS, and SQS
Operational experience with infrastructure or application automation
Operational experience with IaC technologies like Terraform and Cloud formation, including activities around automated server and network configuration
Operational experience supporting cloud hosted systems in a 24x7 environment including troubleshooting incidents, identifying root causes, fix and document problems, and implement preventative measures
Operational experience with observability tools such as Datadog, ELK, Grafana, and Prometheus

Qualifications:

Bachelors or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical degree; six years related experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience
2 or more years experience supporting public cloud platforms
Must have excellent verbal and written communications
Operational understanding of EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, SSM, SG, VPC, R53
Operational experience with Infrastructure as code solutions and tools, such as:
Ansible, Terraform, and Cloud formation
Conceptual knowledge of Dev Ops and agile methodologies
2 or more years experience with cloud system integration, support, and automation
Ability to work well under pressure and manage tight deadlines
Proven track record of operational process change and improvement
AWS certifications (Associate level and higher) a plus
Kubernetes certifications a plus