Cloud Engineer

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

• Bachelor's degree is required

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