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