Cloud Engineer

Job Description

Job DescriptionDescription:

Hybrid every other week onsite/5 days in Westlake, TX

Our client in Texas seeks a Cloud Engineer with strong SRE, DevOps, and Kubernetes experience to deliver reliability across operations, infrastructure, and development. The role focuses on building high-scale, high-availability, and resilient services using automation, infrastructure as code, observability, and chaos testing.

Due to client requirements, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Rate: $50.00 to $60.00/hr. w2

Responsibilities:

• Blend Kubernetes services expertise and reliability engineering to deliver resilient, scalable services.
• Engineer automation and infrastructure as code to operate services at scale with high availability.
• Design and implement scalable monitoring and health signals for container platform environments.
• Strengthen operational processes with support and incident management teams for the cloud ecosystem.
• Partner with cloud provider product teams to drive ongoing reliability improvements in Kubernetes offerings.
• Engage with clients and partners to anticipate needs and guide execution as their advocate.
• Collaborate with the Cloud Provider Enablement Platform and SRE teams to enable reliable cloud adoption.

Experience Requirements:

• 5 to 7 years deploying and supporting distributed multi-tier systems at scale.
• 5+ years in cloud development and migration on AWS or Azure.
• Production experience running Kubernetes workloads on EKS, AKS, or Rancher.
• Experience managing and maintaining Kubernetes clusters on EKS, AKS, and Rancher.
• Experience building and deploying Docker images, including Docker Compose.
• Hands-on Kubernetes skills and knowledge.
• Hands-on experience with Jenkins Core and authoring declarative CI/CD pipelines and libraries.
• Experience with Git or other distributed version control systems.
• Ability to automate with Python and shell scripting.
• Experience with infrastructure as code tools such as IAM, ARM, Terraform, or Chef.
• Experience creating and maintaining logging, monitoring, and alerting with Datadog and Splunk.
• Hands-on work with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, OpenTelemetry, or Datadog.
• Experience managing and interpreting large datasets with query languages and visualization tools such as Power BI or Tableau.
• Experience in software development with Python, NodeJS, or Java with focus on SDLC and automation.
• Incident and crisis management experience supporting critical applications.
• Understanding of cloud computing and DevOps concepts including CI/CD pipelines.
• Practical experience building cloud-hosted and cloud-native enterprise applications using AWS or Azure services for reliability, observability, and orchestration.

Education Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in a technology-related field or equivalent experience.
• At least one cloud certification, AWS or Azure preferred.

Recruitment Transparency Notice Eliassen Group values transparency in our recruitment practices. Please be advised that Eliassen Group utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) tools as part of its initial application screening process. You may receive email and SMS notifications from the Eliassen Virtual Recruiting Team (noreply@eliassen.com, 781-808-2924) inviting you to complete a brief voice screening as part of your application process. These tools assist our hiring teams in different ways, including but not limited to, assistance in reviewing application materials to help identify candidates whose qualifications most closely match the requirements of the position. All AI-assisted evaluations and responses are reviewed by human recruiters before any hiring decisions are made. The use of AI in our process is intended to support fairness, efficiency, and consistency, and Eliassen Group takes measures to prevent bias or discrimination in connection with its hiring practices. By proceeding, you acknowledge, agree, and consent to Eliassen Group’s use of these tools, including AI tools, as part of the application and hiring process.Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.

W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality.
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