Cloud Engineer

Position type: W-2 US Citizen only; No C2CDuration:1 year

Location/Hours: Onsite 5 days a week in Minneapolis, MN

Pay Range: $70-80/hr; W-2; No C2CResponsibilitiesPrimary focus with cloud-based technology solutions. Evaluate, recommend, and select new software/architecture for the observability platform. Manage and administer the AWS cloud environment, including provisioning, configuration, performance monitoring, policy governance and security. Function as the subject matter expert for coordinating and managing the deployment process and support of the full lifecycle of the observability platform. Prepare detailed guidance from which application programs will be written. Analyze and revise existing system logic and documentation as necessary. May authorize risk level changes and recommend solutions to minimize and/or prevent system interruption. Provide technical assistance and operational guidelines for business operations and application development to ensure applications are running optimally in production, test, and development environments. Work with diverse technologies to design, build (code), test, debug, document, implement and maintain solutions and/or patterns for existing and new systems or hardware within the boundaries of existing standards, processes, or operational plans. Ensure that Treasury application services are highly available, reliable, and performant through monitoring and alerting. May lead highly technical/complex projects utilizing system, local staff and resources. Follow and ensure adherence to technical standards for programming and design techniques. May train technical staff on use of software/hardware tools in accordance with required standards and procedures. Contributes to development and revision of department standards and procedures. Collaborate with the development staff and Site Reliability Engineers to understand the software products and any enhancements that are deployed, consult on issues related to the impact of development on infrastructure, work with system engineers and developers to define server configuration settings, lead the migration of code through staging environments to production, and assist software quality assurance technicians during system acceptance testing. Monitor compliance with internal audit requirements and Information Security Manual guidelines.