Job#: 3038420

Job Description:

Location: Chandler, Arizona (Hybrid)

Employment Type: Contract

Contract Duration: 12 Months

This role involves designing and delivering infrastructure tools and services that enable business strategies in accordance with architectural governance and policies. As part of a platform engineering team, the focus is on building and evolving a self-service AWS platform. This platform allows internal technology teams to deploy and operate services securely and efficiently in a regulated financial environment, with a continuous focus on improving reliability, security, and developer experience.

• Assist in translating business and platform requirements into technical definitions, reference architectures, Terraform modules, and reusable platform patterns.
• Design, build, and maintain Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) to provision AWS services in a scalable, consistent, and compliant manner.
• Contribute to the development of a self-service AWS platform, creating standardized "golden paths" and templates.
• Develop and maintain automation and CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, including validation, security scanning, and controlled deployments.
• Embed security-by-design principles into platform services, implementing IAM best practices, encryption standards, and secure network architectures.
• Develop software and automation solutions to eliminate manual processes and improve platform usability, reliability, and operational efficiency.
• Collaborate with analysts, engineers, and application teams to ensure solutions integrate effectively with the platform.
• Contribute to building event-driven and serverless platform components using AWS services to improve scalability and responsiveness.

Education: A degree in Computer Science or a related discipline is required.

Experience: A minimum of 5+ years of experience as a Cloud Automation Engineer is required, with a background in enterprise-scale environments building highly available IaaS and PaaS solutions.

Technical Skills:

• Significant experience writing Hashicorp Terraform configurations and modules, including experience with Terraform Enterprise (TFE).
• Experience in DevOps and GitOps models with infra-as-code and config-as-code.
• Strong knowledge of AWS and the cloud adoption framework.
• Solid understanding of cloud networking concepts, including subnets, routing, load balancing, and firewalls.
• Proficiency in at least one scripting language such as Bash or Python.
• Experience with container-related technologies and CI/CD tools like Jenkins.
• Familiarity with cloud logging, monitoring, and observability tools.

• Experience in the financial services industry.
• Experience with various public cloud service providers.
• Experience in Linux/UNIX system administration.
• Experience with container technologies such as Kubernetes, OpenShift, or Docker.

Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRateds Best of Staffing® in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work® in the United Kingdom and Mexico.

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Everforth Apex Benefits Overview: Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our ‘Welcome Packet’ as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.

Everforth Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Everforth Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law.

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