Cloud Engineer Technical Lead
VSG Business Solutions LLC
Location
Hartford, CT | United States
Job description
Hello Guys
Role: Cloud Engineer / Technical Lead
Location: hybrid in Hartford CT.
Rate: $65/hr on c2c
Visa: USC GC only
C2H position
Client: Confidenntial
PLEASE NOTE: This is a 6 month contracttohire opening and needs to meet Client fulltime conversion policies. Those dependent on a work permit sponsor now or anytime in the future (ie H1B OPT CPT etc) do not meet Client requirements for this opening.
The Hartfords Product and Underwriting GB organization is looking to transform Presale and Underwriting landscape by building a roadmap to move to AWS and restructure existing applications in cloud to be in line with Enterprise Guidelines. We are looking for a highly motivated Cloud Engineer to play a key role in supporting this effort with hands on experience in Object oriented programming. This role will be part of our release train working in close partnership with architects Engineering leads and development teams to migrate applications into Cloud as well as design and develop new applications.
This is a technical role that will be part of an agile team to achieve business outcomes on a large transformational program. The Solutions built should be based on Hartfords architectural standards business requirements technology roadmap and industry trends. The primary objective is to enable our customer experience and speed to market while providing flexibility and scalability to execute on the broader Group Benefits Roadmap. Immediate assignment in this role will be to leverage existing application in AWS to enterprise cloud org guidelines and standards.
Successful candidates will be expected to demonstrate experience in delivering quality technical solutions that are stable performant and secure. Solid technical acumen excellent leadership skills partnership and collaboration skills are plus.
Responsibilities:
- Use AWS for building deploying and migrating legacy applications to Cloud.
- Amazon Web Services usage includes but not limited to Lambda CloudWatch ECS EKS RDS S3 IAM SNS SQS EventBridge AWSBatch AWSDirectory Service Catalog.
- Writing and using scalable and secure APIs
- Enhance or convert existing components in Oracle and MariaDB relational database technologies.
- Leverage architectural standards and safeguard the integrity of the application environment in alliance with architect and Engineering lead.
- Design and implement new software architecture patterns in Cloud that are scalable reusable secure and cost efficient while adhering to industry standards such as multi region support with fault tolerant and data replication strategies.
- Use DevOps and CI/CD tools. Develops Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using CloudFormation templates YAML files build specifications and Lambda functions to have a completely automated build and release process for all AWS resource infrastructure and code artifacts.
- Implements proactive monitoring and observability to predict and detect abnormal system behaviors with timely alerts avoiding system impacts. Troubleshoot problems with software and infrastructure.
- Provide concise transparent communications about potential risks mitigations and business impacts quickly.
- Present new ideas to leadership and bring forward improvement opportunities as learnings.
- Communicate clearly and professionally both in speech and in writing.
- Share knowledge with team members (including Sourcing Partners) regarding development guidelines and best practices.
- Function as the goto technical subject matter expert for the software application migration to cloud and integration aspects.
- Attention to detail and ability to manage multiple priorities in a fastpaced environment.
- Take ownership to drive innovation for effectively leveraging technology to solve the customer problem.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree in computer science Math or any Engineering.
- Must have an active AWS associate certification.
- Awareness of full software development life cycle practices and the ability to follow source code management code quality and testing practices.
- 5 years of handson experience in application software solution development and execution. Software development knowledge using AWS resources like Lambda CloudWatch ECS EKS RDS S3 IAM SNS SQS EventBridge Route 53 VPC AWS Batch AWS Directory Service Catalog is preferred.
- 5 years of handson experience with Java and J2EE technologies such as Java Web Services JMS XML JSON JDBC etc. Along with experience in creating Web Service (SOAP and Rest) using Java Spring boot. Understanding of Batch and MQ.
- 3 years of systems design experience along with continuous integration and DevOps methodologies. Experience using GitHub Jenkins Docker uDeploy Rally checkmarx etc or AWS CodePipeline AWS CodeBuild AWS CodeDeploy and AWS CodeStar.
- Infrastructure as Code experience like CloudFormation Terraform CDK.
- Experience with one or more relational database technologies such as Postgres Oracle MariaDB. Experience in Upgrades and Migrating of database is a plus.
- Familiar with Agile methodology. Experience working in an Agile or SAFe development environment.
- Proven ability to work with cross functional teams.
- Possess analytical problem solving and communication skills. Ability to communicate at all levels within an organization and influence leadership.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Technical knowledge of AWS application development and Data Integrations.
- Handson experience on Migrating Legacy applications to AWS.
- Familiarity with Database upgrades and Migrating to Cloud native RDS like Postgres is a plus.
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