AWS Cloud Engineer

AWS Cloud Engineer

Anywhere

Type: Contract

Category: Engineer

Industry: Financial Services

Workplace Type: Remote

Reference ID: JN -052025-102023

Date Posted: 05/08/2025

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Description:

We're looking for engineers to bring fresh ideas to the table to assist us in providing best in class digital products for our end customers, ultimately making banking better! Responsible for implementing new features and enabling capabilities using modern information technology engineering tools and practices.

Responsible and accountable for risk by openly exchanging ideas and opinions, elevating concerns, and personally following policies and procedures as defined. Accountable for always doing the right thing for customers and colleagues and ensures that actions and behaviors drive a positive customer experience While operating within the Bank's risk appetite, achieves results by consistently identifying, assessing, managing, monitoring, and reporting risks of all types.

The Senior Cloud Engineer will execute best practices within our public cloud environment. The ideal candidate has experience in modern cloud practices ranging from micro services based architectures, cloud infrastructure services, guardrails, and identity. This role requires implementation and execution experience to ensure success in our transformational journey.

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: $65 - $75 / hr. w2

Responsibilities:

• Hands-on role responsible for implementing and maintaining new features within public cloud infrastructure.

• Lead the design and development of scalable Terraform modules, promoting infrastructure as code and advancing our cloud strategy.

• Build cloud-native services to support application teams and contribute to the development of cloud infrastructure automation.

• Automate processes while achieving operational excellence, ensuring systems are maintainable and scalable.

• Support application teams in leveraging cloud products and services, enhancing internal customer experiences.

• Participate in communities of practice by contributing to and following standards, reviewing others code, and sharing knowledge.

• Create and maintain technical documentation for the team to reference and share with our internal customers.

• Provide technical support to regulatory agencies, external auditors, and internal auditors, as required, to respond to audits and examinations of the Bank's control environment.

• Mentor and develop the skills of junior team members through coaching and training.

Experience Requirements:

• 5 years of hands-on devops engineering experience with a strong focus on Python.

• Experience Sentinel Policy has Code in production environment.

• Experience with AWS organizations and policy guardrails (SCP, AWS Config)

• Demonstrated understanding of Infrastructure as Code best practices and strong experience with building complex Terraform modules.

• Experience with RESTful APIs and scripting

• Basic knowledge of SDLC and agile methodologies

• Experience with Git, AWS serverless technologies, containerized workloads and Jenkins orchestration is a plus

• Experience deploying production applications into cloud environments, AWS certification(s) is a plus

• Financial industry experience is a plus.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English

Education Requirements:

Bachelors Degree

Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.

W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality.

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About Eliassen Group:

Eliassen Group is a leading strategic consulting company for human-powered solutions. For over 30 years, Eliassen has helped thousands of companies reach further and achieve more with their technology solutions, financial, risk & compliance, and advisory solutions, and clinical solutions. With offices from coast to coast and throughout Europe, Eliassen provides a local community presence, balanced with international reach. Eliassen Group strives to positively impact the lives of their employees, clients, consultants, and the communities in which they operate.

Eliassen Group is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

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