About this role

STRATEGIC STAFFING SOLUTIONS (S3) HAS AN OPENING!

Cloud Engineer
St. Louis, MO (Hybrid/onsite 3 days per week)
12+ Months with opportunity to extend
W2 Contract role

Position Summary

Support internal teams and provide ongoing production and operational support.
Investigate and resolve production issues, incident tickets, and operational requests.
Work with new teams to onboard them onto the organization's development platforms and standards.
Assist teams with adoption of CI/CD pipelines, GitHub, and other development tooling.
Collaborate closely with development teams to ensure proper setup and integration with platform services.
Partner with the Application Security (AppSec) and Cybersecurity teams to ensure security policies, standards, and compliance requirements are followed.
Support and maintain the existing platform and operational environment.
Work on continuous improvements related to platform reliability, development processes, and security practices.

Required Qualifications

7+ years in DevOps / DevSecOps / platform engineering
Hands-on administration of an enterprise CI platform (Jenkins/CloudBees preferred) and pipeline development using shared/reusable libraries
Practical GitHub Actions experience workflows, reusable workflows, runners, secrets
Strong hands-on AWS (EKS, EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, Route 53, KMS, EFS) and production Kubernetes
Terraform at production scale modules, state management, multi-environment, pipeline-driven plan/apply; plus Helm and Docker
Pipeline security tooling: SAST, SCA, SBOM, container scanning, quality gates
Linux administration and troubleshooting
Networking TCP/IP, DNS, routing, firewalls, load balancing, proxies, VPN/Transit Gateway, packet-level diagnostics
Certificates and TLS PKI, issuance, and renewal, truststores, mTLS
Identity LDAP, Azure AD / SAML / OIDC, SSO, SCIM, RBAC
Scripting in Python, Bash, and Groovy
Ability to work independently with broad ownership; strong documentation discipline; participation in on-call rotation

Education

*Beware of scams. S3 never asks for money during its onboarding process

Cloud Engineer

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