Cloud Engineer

MMC Group LP is seeking a highly experienced Senior Cloud Engineer to drive the operational excellence, stability, and security of enterprise AWS cloud environments. This role is instrumental in ensuring high availability, performance optimization, and scalable infrastructure design across development, staging, and production ecosystems.

Responsibilities:

• Deploy and maintain applications across development, staging, and production environments, ensuring consistency and operational stability
• Build reusable CI/CD pipeline templates, jobs, and stages to standardize deployment practices across teams
• Configure and manage GitLab Runners, environment variables, and secure secret handling
• Implement version control strategies and rollback procedures during deployments
• Troubleshoot and resolve deployment failures, optimizing pipeline performance and reliability
• Architect and maintain AWS-based applications and infrastructure
• Deploy and optimize AWS Lambda functions, including scripting, monitoring, and performance tuning
• Containerize and deploy applications using ECS, EKS, and Kubernetes
• Define and deploy readiness and liveness probes for containerized workloads
• Orchestrate regional failover and restoration of ECS, EKS, Lambda, databases, and other infrastructure services
• Develop and test disaster recovery playbooks and recovery runbooks
• Ensure compliance with RTO and RPO requirements
• Develop custom CloudWatch metrics and alarms based on application-specific probes
• Monitor system health using CloudWatch, AWS CLI, and scheduled Lambda scripts
• Configure dashboards, thresholds, and alerting frameworks
• Perform root cause analysis and incident correlation using performance monitoring tools
• Participate in 24/7 on-call rotation to support production systems
• Conduct patch assessment and maintenance for infrastructure and third-party software
• Develop structured patch testing schedules and rollout plans, including rollback strategies
• Maintain centralized inventory of licensed software deployed across AWS environments
• Create and manage change records in alignment with Agile and PI planning processes
• Ensure cloud environments adhere to security best practices and compliance standards
• Develop automation scripts using Python, Bash, YAML, JSON, and Node.js
• Create pre-check and post-check scripts to validate deployment health and infrastructure stability
• Enhance operational efficiency through Infrastructure as Code, using Terraform and CloudFormation

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field, or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of IT experience, including 5+ years supporting cloud infrastructure or IT operations
• Hands-on experience with AWS services, including Lambda, ECS, EKS, and CloudWatch
• Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and CloudFormation
• Strong proficiency with CI/CD tools such as GitHub, GitLab, and Kubernetes-based DevOps pipelines
• Scripting experience using Bash and Python for automation and operational maintenance
• Cloud certifications, such as AWS DevOps Engineer or AWS Solutions Architect Associate
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• U.S. Citizenship required
• Ability to obtain and maintain Public Trust clearance
• Advanced experience in diagnosing cloud performance and scalability issues
• Expertise in container orchestration platforms, including Docker, ECS, and Kubernetes
• Familiarity with ITIL frameworks and incident management best practices
• Experience supporting regulated or federal environments