Senior Cloud Engineer

About us

At Radiant Digital, we deliver innovative IT solutions and consulting services to government agencies and businesses across the USA, Canada, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia.

On the federal side, we collaborate with agencies such as NASA, the Department of State (DOS), the IRS, ACL, ACF, USDA, and many others, as well as numerous state and local government entities.

Beyond government, we serve industries like telecom, healthcare, entertainment, and oil & gas, providing tailored solutions that enhance system efficiency, optimize data utilization, and modernize applications to stay ahead in dynamic markets.

Job Title: Senior Cloud Engineer

Location: Richmond, VA 23219 |Hybrid

Duration: 6-12+ months

Mode of Interview: Web cam

Additional responsibilities include:

• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business requirements and convert them into actionable solution components aligned with DBHDS’s Enterprise Solution architecture patterns, procedures, and policies.

• Design and develop scalable, resilient AWS micro frontends and engineering solutions using cloud-native services and technologies.

• Develop front-end components and back-end services to create cohesive applications within cloud and hybrid infrastructures.

• Build and maintain continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to automate updates and feature deployments.

• Manage configuration drift and ensure consistency across different environments, using tools like AWS Code Build/Deploy and AWS CloudFormation.

• Create comprehensive solution documentation detailing the design, testing, and production support processes and procedures.

• Ensure solution completeness through thorough testing and quality assurance processes, ensuring compliance with security policies and best practices.

• Apply DevOps principles to streamline the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and enhance automation.

• Deploy solutions to various environments, establish monitoring processes, and ensure ongoing operational stability and application resiliency through system stress testing and feature enhancements.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand change requirements, provide technical expertise, and ensure solutions align with business needs.

• Lead the other full stack developers on the team.

Qualifications include:

• Expertise in developing AWS full stack applications: Translate business requirements into fully tested applications workflows by designing, implementing, and maintaining technology assets using approved tools and plugins for AWS for NodeJS and react.

• Proficiency in Micro-frontends orchestrion: Strong proficiency in cloud platforms, leveraging native cloud services for micro front-end orchestration solution.

• API Development: Expertise in designing, developing, and maintaining APIs specifically tailored for cloud environments including AWS API Gateway.

• Cloud Networking and Security: Understanding of cloud networking concepts including VPCs, subnets, security groups and cloud security best practices, including identity and access management (IAM). Securing application through role-based authorization, single sign on, and Cognito.

• Serverless Computing: Experience with serverless computing concepts, event-driven architecture, and serverless platforms.

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Automate the provisioning and management of cloud infrastructure using tools like AWS CloudFormation and Terraform.

• Scripting and Automation: Ability to write scripts and automate tasks using scripting languages including NodeJS and Python.

• Monitoring and Logging: Experience in setting up alerts, dashboards, and logs for cloud infrastructure and applications.

• DevOps Practices: Strong understanding of DevOps practices, including building and optimizing CI/CD pipelines leveraging AWS Code Build/Deploy or Terraform.

• End-User Training and Support: Provide support and training to end-users for improved solution literacy and tool usage in a cloud ecosystem.

• Business Process Automation: Analyse business process life cycles to identify opportunities for automation and simplification, implementing appropriate solutions.

• Collaboration and Communication: Collaborate with product and business owners to deliver robust cloud-based solutions, demonstrating excellent communication skills (both written and verbal).

• Compliance: Adhere to all policies and procedures of the Agency.

Additional Considerations:

• Experience building CI/CD pipelines using AWS Code Build/Code Deploy leveraging AWS CDK or Terraform.

• Experience building full-stack applications using AWS Lambdas and NodeJS for backend.

• Experience building applications leveraging No-SQL database for eg, AWS DynamoDB.

Required - 10 Years of experience

• Expertise building micro-frontend applications using ReactJS and Single-Spa frameworks

• Expertise designing and building backend API Services using NodeJS leveraging AWS Lambda and API Gateway

• Expertise in DevOps practices including building CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodeBuild/CodeDeploy/CodePipelines

• Expertise automating provisioning and management of cloud infrastructure using tools like AWS CloudFormation, AWS CDK, and Terraform

• Expertise in writing scripts and automating tasks using scripting languages including Python

• Experience with serverless computing concepts, event-driven architecture, and serverless platforms

• Experience in setting up alerts, dashboards, and logs for cloud infrastructure and applications

• Proficiency working with NoSQL databases including AWS DynamoDB

• Experience securing applications through role-based authorization, single sign-on, and AWS Cognito

• Understanding of cloud networking concepts including VPCs, subnets, security groups and cloud security best practices including IAM Roles/Policies

• AWS Solutions Architect Professional Certification is desired