Senior Cloud Engineer

  • Location: Mechanicsburg, PA
  • Type: Contract
  • Job #35264
  • Salary: $52.50 - $54.50 Per Hour
  • Hybrid

Senior Cloud Engineer
*This is a hybrid position with 2 days/week onsite

Description:

  • The client is seeking a Cloud Engineer to support the clients Solutions Management Group.
  • This role will work primarily with the client’s enterprise team and will focus on designing developing implementing and supporting cloud-native solutions in Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services AWS.
  • The ideal candidate will bring strong hands-on experience in cloud engineering application modernization workload migration and DevOps-enabled delivery.
  • Candidates must be able to demonstrate direct personal experience performing this work in prior projects and engagements.
  • Experience limited to general team participation will not be sufficient.
  • This role also requires the ability to support applied AI solution patterns including GPT model integration prompt engineering and enterprise use cases such as summarization semantic search and intelligent chatbot capabilities.

Responsibilities:

  • Design, develop, implement and support cloud-native applications services and APIs using technologies such as .NET .NET Core containers Python and related tools as appropriate to the solution.
  • Design implement and support secure scalable and reliable solutions in Azure and AWS environments.
  • Deploy and manage cloud infrastructure and platform services in support of application modernization integration and enterprise solution delivery.
  • Support cloud migration integration and modernization efforts across a range of the client business processes.
  • Work with Azure services such as App Service Service Bus API Management Logic Apps Azure Functions Azure SQL Managed Instance Azure SQL Database Blob Storage File Storage and Table Storage.
  • Work with Azure infrastructure and networking components such as Virtual Machines Virtual Networks Network Security Groups VPN Gateway and ExpressRoute.
  • Work with AWS services such as EC2 S3 VPC Lambda and RDS in support of secure and reliable cloud solutions.
  • Support containerization and orchestration using technologies such as Docker Kubernetes AWS ECS Azure AKS Azure Container Apps and similar platforms.
  • Support CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices using tools such as Azure DevOps GitHub Artifactory and NuGet.
  • Apply software engineering software architecture SDLC and data management practices throughout the delivery lifecycle.
  • Contribute to technical solution design implementation planning engineering analysis and related business and technical review activities.
  • Apply knowledge of networking and infrastructure concepts including DNS Active Directory firewalls load balancers and virtual networking.
  • Support GPT-enabled solution capabilities including prompt engineering intelligent chatbots document summarization semantic search and related business use cases.
  • Apply awareness of token usage cost management performance optimization content filtering and compliance considerations when deploying GPT-based solutions in production cloud environments including government and public safety contexts.

Required Skills/Knowledge/Experience:

  • Seven years of relevant experience as a Cloud Engineer, Required 7 Years
  • Four-year college degree or equivalent technical study, Required
  • Azure cloud platform experience, including application, storage, and networking services, Required 5 Years
  • AWS cloud platform experience, including compute, storage, and networking services, Required 5 Years
  • Cloud-native application development and integration experience, Required 4 Years
  • .NET, .NET Core, and C#, Highly desired 4 Years
  • Python programming, Highly desired 4 Years
  • CI/CD and DevOps tool experience, Highly desired 3 Years
  • AI model integration and prompt engineering, Highly desired 1 Years
  • AI-driven application development, including chatbot, summarization, or semantic search use cases, Highly desired 1 Years
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Highly desired
  • Azure Fundamentals or Azure Solution Architect certification, Highly desired

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