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Trace3

Trace3 is an information technology and services company that helps businesses around the world evolve with the fast-changing climate of IT innovation. Headquartered in Irvine, Cal

Cloud Engineer III

Location

Colorado

Posted

29 days ago

Salary

$140K - $160K / year

Seniority

Lead

Bachelor Degree7 yrs expEnglishAWSCloudDockerEC2

Job Description

Cloud Engineer III

Trace3

• Design, provision and deploy AWS infrastructure (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, Lambda, CloudWatch and related services) following industry best practices and organization standards. • Execute cloud migrations with minimal downtime, ensuring data integrity and application continuity across environments. • Implement Zero Trust architecture principles throughout infrastructure and systems to ensure security posture. • Configure and manage identity and access management (IAM) policies, active directory integration for role-based access controls. • Produce internal and customer facing documentation for the configuration and use of deployed systems. • Configure and manage active directory services for system, application and environment access including security and group policies within active directory. • Implement security controls and hardening measures to meet compliance requirements and organizational security standards as implemented. • Conduct security assessments of cloud resources and remediate identified vulnerabilities • Monitor system and application performance metrics using CloudWatch and other observability tools to assess, provide recommendations on and take action in order to resolve performance issues. • Perform root cause analysis on incidents and recommend corrective actions to prevent recurrence • Maintain and enhance documentation of infrastructure configurations for all environments. • Provide reports and actions taken necessary to work as a team and enable handoff of issues within and between teams. • Evaluate and make recommendations on cloud and system technologies including executing proof-of-concept and minimum viable product testing as part of program engineering efforts. • Support application migrations into infrastructure as code and cloud native approach. • Provide feedback and revision to customer-based requirements when core program direction and requirements do not align • Ability to build strong and friendly relationships with partners, stakeholders and customers to limit escalated issues. • Experience in troubleshooting, developing and deploying containerized applications and system workloads using Docker, including building optimized Docker images, managing container lifecycles and debugging container runtime issues across environments.

Job Requirements

  • 7+ years of progressive IT experience in systems administration, networking or infrastructure engineering
  • 4+ years of demonstrated Cloud Engineering experience, with a primary focus on AWS service design, deployment and operations.
  • CompTIA Security+ Certification
  • AWS Associate Certification or higher

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans for you and your dependents
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan with Employer Match, 529 College Savings Plan, Health Savings Account, Life Insurance, and Long-Term Disability
  • Competitive Compensation
  • Training and development programs
  • Major offices stocked with snacks and beverages
  • Collaborative and cool culture
  • Work-life balance and generous paid time off

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