Role: AWS Engineer with expertise in AWS Cloud, Infrastructure as Code, DevOps, Automation, Security, and Containerization, responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing scalable, secure, and highly available cloud environments.
Experience: - Minimum 8+ Years
Location: - Chicago, IL (3 days/Week)
Responsibilities: -
- Design, deploy, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available AWS cloud environments.
- Build and manage cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, or AWS CodePipeline.
- Monitor system performance, availability, and reliability using AWS CloudWatch and other monitoring solutions.
- Configure and manage AWS networking components including VPCs, Route Tables, Security Groups, Load Balancers, and VPNs.
- Implement cloud security best practices including IAM, encryption, secrets management, and compliance controls.
- Support containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes (EKS preferred).
- Perform troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and performance tuning across cloud environments.
- Collaborate with development, architecture, and operations teams to deliver cloud-native solutions.
- Ensure backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity requirements are met.
- Create and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and architecture diagrams.
Educational Qualifications: -
- Engineering Degree – BE/ME/BTech/MTech/BSc/MSc.
- Technical certification in multiple technologies is desirable.
Mandatory skills
AWS Services
· EC2
· S3
· RDS (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server)
· Lambda
· ECS/EKS
· API Gateway
· CloudFront
· Route 53
· CloudWatch
· SNS/SQS
· IAM
· AWS Systems Manager (SSM)
· AWS Secrets Manager
· VPC and Networking Services
Infrastructure & Automation
· Terraform (Preferred)
· AWS CloudFormation
DevOps & CI/CD
· Jenkins
· GitHub Actions
· AWS CodePipeline
· Git/GitHub
Containers
· Docker
· Kubernetes
· Amazon EKS
Scripting
· Python
· Shell Scripting (Bash)
Qualifications & Experience
· Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field.
· Minimum 8 +years of overall IT experience with at least 7+ years of hands-on AWS experience.
· Strong understanding of cloud architecture principles and AWS Well-Architected Framework.
· Experience implementing secure and compliant cloud solutions.
· Hands-on experience with CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code.
· Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
· Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
Good to Have Skills
Infrastructure & Automation
· Ansible
Certifications
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate/Professional
- AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Domain & Platform Experience
- Experience with Healthcare IT applications and data platforms.
- Healthcare industry experience / knowledge (Provider, Payer, Life Sciences, or HealthTech).
- Experience with data migration and integration projects.
- Exposure to Snowflake, Redshift, Databricks, or healthcare data lakes.
- Knowledge of AI/ML services on AWS.
- Experience with FinOps and cloud cost optimization.
VeeRteq Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer