AWS Engineer
Denver, CO

Job Description

LRS is seeking a talented AWS Engineer for our client in Denver, CO that will build high impact customer facing applications that run on AWS. The ideal engineer will have a passion for developing massively scalable, distributed software systems that require high availability to support mission-critical business functions. Since quality is at the forefront of everything our team does, we are looking for true passion for writing robust, re-usable, scalable and well-tested code. Our mission is to build and deliver highly engaging customer experiences that promote strong customer engagement, maximize custom satisfaction, and drive or clients ancillary revenue line of business.

LRS Consulting Services has been delivering the highest quality consultants to our clients since 1979. We've built a solid reputation for dealing with our clients and our consultants with honesty, integrity, and respect. We work hard every day to maintain that reputation, and we're very interested in candidates who can help us. If you're that candidate, this opportunity is made for you!

Responsibilities:

As a key member of our team, the AWS Cloud Engineer will work with development teams and other DevOps engineers to solve critical issues while improving customer experience. Other responsibilities include:

* Build and support scalable microservices and system orchestration.
* Design, development, and testing of features delivered as applications and/or services.
* Investigate and contribute to solving issues in production environments.
* Provide collaborative conduit between various technical and non-technical teams.
* Build effective monitoring, alerts, and metrics for production services.
* Build effective DevOps services, processes, and tooling.
* Supporting applications and/or services as and when required on a 24x7 basis.

Required Qualifications:

* Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or Mathematics
* Minimum of 7 years of software engineering experience
* Minimum of 4 years of AWS technology delivery experience
* AWS Certified Developer highly desired
* AWS Certified SysOps Administrator highly desired
* Strong knowledge of microservice and SoA architectures.
* Experience with AWS cloud platform technologies such as API Gateway, Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB, SQS, SES, S3, Cognito, Cloud Front, Cloud Watch, etc…
* Experience with AWS client technologies such as AppSync (GraphQL) and Amplify
* Experience with AWS DevOps tooling such as CodeStar and Service Application Model (SAM)
* Experience with infrastructure as code tools and methods such as Chef, Puppet, Salt, Cloud Formation, or Ansible
* Experience with Identity Access Management (IAM) and Identity Provider (IdP) technologies and solutions (e.g. oAuth, OpenID, JWT, SAML).
* Experience with HTTP APIs and RESTful web services
* Understanding of web browser APIs and behavior
* Competent in designing and building web applications and/or web services in a commercial setting
* Competent in design/implementation for reliability, availability, scalability and performance
* Competent in software engineering tools (e.g. build tools) and best practices (e.g. test automation and continuous integration)

Preferred Qualifications:

* Experience with automated testing, test-driven development and/or behavior-driven development
* Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
* Experience with code quality and testing
* Experience working in Agile development team
* Experience with source control systems especially GIT
* Application Performance Monitoring (APM) experience (e.g. Dynatrace, App Dynamics, New Relic)
* Experience monitoring and troubleshooting in a very large complex system of services
* Cognizant of modern database/storage technologies
* Experience with automated testing tools (e.g. Selenium, JMeter).
* Knowledge of IP networking, VPN's, DNS, load balancing and firewalling

Nice to Have Experience:

* Experience and talent for UI/UX design
* Experience with building PWA and native customer facing applications
* Experience with build CI/CD systems like Jenkins, Travis or TFS
* Experience with Docker/Kubernetes and container orchestration
* Experience with Unix/Linux environments
* Proficiency in a front-end language like Elm, JavaScript, Objective-C or Swift
* Proficiency in at least one front-end web development framework such as React, Angular, Rails, Django, Vue.js.

Only those with permanent work authorization in the US will be considered.

LRS is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants for employment will receive consideration without unlawful discrimination based on race, color, religion, creed, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, gender identity, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, citizenship status or protected veteran status.