Cloud Engineer - Full Stack Developer

Overview

Title: Cloud Engineer – Full Stack Developer

Location: Rochester, NY; hybrid candidates considered with 2x quarterly onsite presence

Reports to: VP of Operations

As a member of our Professional Services team, you will assist in the building, deploying, and maintaining of critical customer applications. In this role, you will provide thought leadership and hands-on technical execution to optimize client environments and ensure robust, scalable applications.

Responsibilities

• Assisting in the designing and building modern and highly scalable cloud-based applications for customers
• Migrating and modernizing customer legacy applications using AWS services
• Working with Project Managers and clients to provide recommendations and technology roadmaps to meet their business needs
• Actively participating in team meetings and cross-functional interactions
• Keeping team members and supervisors informed of progress and issues
• Actively contributing to client project status meetings
• Contributing to R&D projects to validate/invalidate new services offerings
• Remaining current with technology trends and new technologies
• Proposing the latest technology usage and integration standards
• Developing and managing backend infrastructure, APIs and integrations to support cloud-based solutions, using programming languages like Python, Java, and PHP
• Participating in code reviews, documenting infrastructure-as-code, and assisting with UI/UX
• Building out frontend interfaces and dashboards for applications and infrastructure using languages like Angular and React
• Utilizing best practices for security, compliance, and business continuity in cloud solutions

How you will be successful

• Bridging the gap between technical complexity and business objectives through adept problem-solving abilities
• Building trusting relationships with team members and collaborating departments
• Comfortable with pushing boundaries and technical limits (maintain technical aptitude and knowledge of industry)
• Confidently communicating with diverse stakeholders to translate requirements into impactful outcomes
• Championing ongoing elevation of personal skills paired with knowledge transfer to teammates
• Having the ability to rapidly learn new languages, frameworks, or business domains as needed to meet the diverse needs of multiple clients

Requirements of the role

• 5+ years’ experience as a cloud engineer with hands-on expertise across AWS cloud services
• Strong experience with infrastructure-as-code tools like CloudFormation
• Experience coding in multiple languages including Node.js, Python, Angular, React, .NET Core, .NET Framework
• Experience using AWS platforms including but not limited to Cognito and Amplify
• Understanding of modern app architectures in cloud environments
• Able to collaborate with cloud engineer and project management teams
• AWS Certification(s) a must have (can be obtained upon hire) - minimum requirement at 90 days is AWS Certified Developer Associates
• In-depth experience with one or more programming languages like Java, JavaScript, Python, C# used for developing cloud-native applications
• Understanding of cloud computing concepts - IaaS, PaaS, serverless, containers etc.
• Working knowledge of Amazon Web Services - key services like EC2, S3, Lambda, API Gateway, ECS, Fargate, RDS etc.
• Experience using AWS command line tools and SDKs to manage infrastructure as code
• Building, deploying, managing microservices applications on AWS
• Working with AWS data storage solutions like DynamoDB, NoSQL, and Aurora RDS
• Experience with containers & orchestration platforms like Docker, Kubernetes on AWS; Security best practices for applications in the public cloud

Additional Valuable Skills

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing
• Building event-driven architectures on cloud platform
• Using infrastructure as code tools like CloudFormation
• Frontend JavaScript frameworks like React
• Machine learning capabilities like SageMaker
• Leveraging serverless architectures where applicable