Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. NEOGOV builds SaaS technology for government and education organizations, supporting public-sector HR and compliance workflows. The Senior AWS Cloud Engineer will develop, deliver, and maintain infrastructure, build and release platforms, and customer-facing features while designing secure, scalable, highly available systems. The role also involves maintaining production compliance, implementing disaster recovery procedures, and improving system efficiency and team velocity.
Responsibilities
- Work as a software engineer developing, delivering, and maintaining features such as Infrastructure as Code (IaC), our build and release platform, or customer-facing features
- Design and deploy scalable, highly available, secure, and fault-tolerant systems
- Maintain and ensure compliance in a high-performance production environment
- Deliver your work in a reliable and maintainable manner by writing clean, testable code
- Actively participate in planning work for the team and identify ways to improve team velocity and quality
- Maintain, test, and implement disaster recovery procedures
- Perform infrastructure upgrades and updates to maximize system efficiency while minimizing downtime
Skills
- * Strong problem solver with excellent communication skills
- * Empathetic and have a growth mindset with a desire to learn and embrace challenges
- * Able to learn new technologies quickly and independently
- * Innovative and passionate about your work
- * A desire to work in an operations environment that aspires to DevOps and SRE principles
- * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent professional work experience
- * Expertise in AWS CDK: Deep, hands-on experience using the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) to define infrastructure using modern programming languages
- * 7+ years of experience in cloud engineering with a focus on AWS services, including CloudFormation, Auto Scaling, ECS, and Serverless architectures
- * Software development experience with TypeScript, C#, or Java (essential for CDK implementation)
- * Strong Cloud fundamentals with an emphasis on AWS Well-Architected best practices
- * Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Jenkins, MSBuild, and Git
- * Experience working in a "compliant" environment (e.g., CJIS, FedRAMP, or SOC2)
Benefits
- Comprehensive Benefits package (medical, dental, vision, etc.) for full-time employees
- Generous PTO to support work-life balance
- Remote working opportunities
- 401K Matching
- Autonomy to grow and find your career path with supportive leadership
- 12-week Paid Parental Leave
- Inclusive and diverse environment
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