Senior AWS Cloud Engineer

Job Description

Note: This position will follow our hybrid work model, we expect the selected candidate to be in office 2-3 days a week at the St. Petersburg, FL Corporate Office (primary) or the Denver, CO Tech Center.

Job Summary:         
                                      
This role will help drive and implement engineering solutions and strategies that will improve hybrid and public cloud technology adoption, with a focus on AWS technologies. This includes designing and participating in the development of cloud-based solutions that scale to help deliver both internal and business-facing applications. This role will leverage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) frameworks and programming languages to provide a repeatable catalog of secure platform services including virtualized and container-hosted services.

Responsibilities:

• Research and recommend innovative technologies and approaches for public cloud infrastructure management, upgrades, or improvements, while adhering to technical or budgetary constraints. 

• Proactively plan capacity monitoring and scaling of platforms and applications. 

• Obtain and evaluate information on factors such as costs, performance, and security to determine solution patterns and services. 

• Participate in software system programming, validation, deployment, and documentation. 

• Provide technical leadership, including mentoring others, gaining consensus across teams & individuals, substantiating technical decisions, validating team recommendations, integrating efforts into a comprehensive strategy, and delivering results on time. 

• Writes and/or reviews requirements, system specifications, flow charts and technical diagrams.

• May occasionally work a non-standard schedule including nights and/or weekends and/or have on-call responsibilities.

• Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Skills/Previous Experience:

• Three (3) or more years of relevant experience or combination or education, experience and training is highly preferred.

Required:

• Must have AWS Cloud Engineer experience.

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform.

• Experience coordinating efforts across one or more teams and mentoring more junior developers.

• Experience with Amazon Web Services, including IAM, S3, EC2, Lambda/Serverless Technologies, RedShift, Aurora and EKS.

• Knowledge of SOLID and object-oriented design patterns.

• Experience with on-premises and cloud-based networking.

• Good knowledge of on-premises and cloud security practices.

• Experience writing software in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, Java, Groovy, Go, TypeScript).

• User/developer-level experience with Linux, particularly Ubuntu, Red Hat, or CentOS.

• Experience working with CI/CD Pipelines or Stack Orchestration processes.

• Experience working with Git.

• Experience with Agile/Scrum planning tools (e.g., Jira, Azure DevOps).

Preferred:

• Experience with Container tools including Kubernetes and Docker.

Licenses/Certifications:

• AWS Certification(s) preferred but not required.

• Terraform Certification preferred but not required.

• Programming Certification(s) preferred but not required.

Education

Bachelor’s: Computer and Information Science, Bachelor’s: Information Technology, High School (HS) (Required)

Work Experience

General Experience - 3 to 6 years

Certifications

Salary Range

$80,000.00-$150,000.00

Travel

Less than 25%

Workstyle

Hybrid

At Raymond James our associates use five guiding behaviors (Develop, Collaborate, Decide, Deliver, Improve) to deliver on the firm's core values of client-first, integrity, independence and a conservative, long-term view. 

We expect our associates at all levels to:
•  Grow professionally and inspire others to do the same
•  Work with and through others to achieve desired outcomes
•  Make prompt, pragmatic choices and act with the client in mind
•  Take ownership and hold themselves and others accountable for delivering results that matter
•  Contribute to the continuous evolution of the firm

At Raymond James – as part of our people-first culture, we honor, value, and respect the uniqueness, experiences, and backgrounds of all of our Associates.  Whe