The Application Development Cloud Engineer develops and maintains cloud-native applications, focusing on backend development using modern frameworks while collaborating in teams to ensure quality and performance.
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.
Responsible for:
- 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, document infrastructure-as-code, and assist 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
The salary range provided is a general guideline. When extending an offer, Innovative considers factors including, but not limited to, the responsibilities of the specific role, market conditions, geographic location, as well as the candidate’s professional experience, key skills, and education/training.
Top Skills
Angular
Api Gateway
AWS
Aws Cdk
CloudFormation
Ecs
Lambda
React
Terraform
Vue
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