Cloud Engineer, Hamilton Township

Cloud Engineer

Location: Princeton NJ

Hybrid-local only

Job Description Title: Senior Cloud Engineer - AWS

We are currently seeking to fill a "Senior Cloud Engineer – AWS” role for MIAX, in our BSD division.

Role Description and Remit This is a hands-on-keyboard, highly technical, IC role.

In this role, you will own the buildout of applications and infrastructure in AWS and engineering of hybrid environments connecting our on-prem and cloud in a secure, resilient manner. This role will work in close collaboration with network engineering, InfoSec and application teams with a remit of a cloud-first thinking and support both on-prem and cloud roadmaps.

Strong written and oral communication skills are essential and candidates should be self-directed and motivated to work in a fast paced, team-oriented environment.

Responsibilities

AWS Solutions Architect SAA-C02 Certification required

Deep experience is expected on IAM

Architecting cloud solutions using VPCs, Direct Connect, IAM, AWS Control Tower. Experience with multi-account implementations and RCPs/SCPs (Resource and Service Control Policies) is highly desirable.

Working with SecurityHub and establishing best practices around remediation and ongoing observability

Partner with the software architects and network engineering in designing and improving CI/CD processes, and using infrastructure-as-code

Troubleshoot incidents, identify root causes, fix and document problems, implement preventive measures

Working with the AWS CDK IaC frameworks in Python or NodeJS is required

Participate in applying SRE principles such as availability SLIs, error budgets, incident reviews, alerting and be part of an on-call ROTA Location Princeton, NJ

Organizational Structure The "Senior Cloud Engineer – AWS” role will report directly to the Director of Devops in Business Systems Development.

Qualifications Expected

Three or more years of experience in architecting, designing, developing, and implementing cloud solutions on AWS platforms

Familiarity with implementing a hybrid networking architecture in a highly regulated environment– such as establish data perimeters

AWS EKS, Load Balancers, EC2 Instances, S3 Storage, Direct Connect Gateways, VPCs, RDS, DynamoDB, Network Firewalls, ECS

Experience with Cloudwatch Logs and Alarms and building observability around the AWS solutions

Experience with Kubernetes - including familiarity with Networking and Storage

Strong Linux background and containerization principles - OCI, Docker or packer/podman

Experience with Kafka and managing Kafka clusters are desirable

Experience with Jenkins or other CI/CD framework is desirable

Knowledge of web services, APIs, REST and RPC calls

Prometheus, Alert Manager, Splunk, Loki and Grafana is a plus

Experience in GitOps for kubernetes – Flux, ArgoCD and tools like kustomize and helm

Experience with Shell Scripts, Python SDLC

Java or NodeJS/React programming is a big plus