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 Full Stack Cloud Engineer, you’ll build and modernize scalable AWS-based applications — developing backend services, APIs, and integrations while also contributing to frontend dashboards and user interfaces. One engagement you may be migrating and refactoring a legacy application into a serverless, microservices architecture using Lambda and API Gateway, the next you’re building full-stack cloud-native applications using React, Python, or Java with secure, event-driven AWS services. You’ll collaborate closely with clients and project teams to design solutions, improve architectures, and deliver modern cloud applications that are secure, scalable, and business-driven.
What You’ll Do:
- 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
Required Skills
- 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
Preferred
- 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
- 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
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