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SOFT's client located in New York, NY ( Hybrid ) is looking for a AWS Cloud Support Engineer for a long term contract assignment.

Qualifications:  
• Hands-on experience in building/implementing cloud platforms/applications on AWS platform.  
• Expertise in AWS Compute (EC2, EMR), AWS Storage (S3, EBS), AWS Databases (RDS, DynamoDB), AWS Data Integration (Glue), Lambda and AWS Core services.  
• Expertise in AWS Compute (EC2, EMR), AWS Storage (S3, EBS), AWS Databases (RDS, DynamoDB), AWS Data Integration (Glue).  
• Excellent knowledge of Spark, databricks.  
• Advanced understanding of Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and a variety of AWS tools and services.  
• Good understanding of AWS Identify and Access management, AWS Networking and AWS Monitoring tools.  
• Proficiency in CI/CD and deployment automation using GITLAB pipeline.  
• Proficiency in Cloud infrastructure provisioning tools e.g., Terraform.  
• Strong technical skill in software engineering for Java EE /Cloud technologies and proficiency in Java Lambdas, Java Streams API, Java functional programming.  
• Hands-on experience of building distributed system with micro-services, Spring boot and Spring cloud.  
• Proficiency in Java, Python, Scala  
• Expert level skills in SQL queries in databases like Oracle, SQL Server  

Responsibilities:  
This position is for a role within the service management team to assist and train the team members working on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud initiative. The primary activities will be to support administration of a sandbox environment, to develop procedures and to provide insight into best practices on configuring the environments within the AWS Cloud. The Cloud Support Engineer help administer and build the AWS sandbox. Responsibilities include instructing the Service Management team in best practices for sizing, administration, tagging, scripting, monitoring, and security for various environment scenarios. The Cloud Support Engineer will provide documentation for best practices and support for Amazon's application development tools to the application developers.  
  
• Work on migrating applications from an on-premises location to the cloud service providers  
• Quickly understand how the on-prem implementation is working and implement the roadmap to migrate the application to cloud  
• Develop products and services on the latest technologies through contributions in development, enhancements, testing and implementation.  
• Effectively leverage the popular open-source components and home-grown frameworks  
• Develop, modify, extend code for building cloud infrastructure, and automate using CI/CD pipeline.  
• Partners with business and peers in the pursuit of solutions that achieve business goals through an agile software development methodology.  
• Perform problem analysis, data analysis, reporting, and communication.  
• Work with peers across the system to define and implement best practices and standards.  
• Assess applications and help determine the appropriate application infrastructure patterns.  
• Use best practices and knowledge of internal or external drivers to improve products or services.