Apex has an opportunity for a remote Cloud Engineer area. Here are the details:
Position: Cloud Engineer
Location: Remote (must be able to work PST hours)
Rate: Negotiable based on experience
Duration: 6+ Months

Position Description:

As part of the Quantitative Development team, the Cloud Engineer will be responsible for the design/architecture and implementation of various cloud native services primarily focused on AWS based infrastructure and tooling.

The Quantitative Development team supports Portfolio Management and Research with equity models and tools that are used to guide our investment process. The Cloud Engineer will assist in migrating these tools and models to a cloud native infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with the business unit and other team members to understand and document requirements
• Design and develop an API gateway to our cloud based backtesting tools
• Design and develop relational database models
• Design and develop integration solutions with 3rd party data providers and systems
• Share experience, knowledge, and ideas to the team to improve processes and productivity
• Create unit/integration/functional tests
• Contribute to evolution of our architecture to make it more flexible and easy to use with primary focus on cloud
• Follow our development process and guidelines
• Conduct code reviews of other developers, pull-request reviews
• Follow technology trends/tools and recommend improvements to our technology when appropriate
• Act as the security expert for the development team by advocating for secure coding practices and implementing security related features
• Responsible for researching and implementing software development initiatives that are cross functional and may be passed off to other groups later

Requirements:

• 3+ years of experience developing cloud native applications
• Python design and development experience is a plus
• Strong knowledge of various AWS cloud services like EC2, ECS, S3, Batch, Fargate
• In depth experience with various message streaming technologies
• Solid understanding Docker containerization and AWS Lambda serverless development, Step functions etc.
• IaaS familiarity, working knowledge of Terraform
• Solid understanding of core language features and how to use them properly (interfaces, generics, annotations, reflection, closures, etc.)
• Multi-threading programming in and thorough understanding of thread safety principles
• Familiarity with version control systems such as GIT or SVN
• Working experience with agile development
• Familiarity with continuous integration and build tools
• Working knowledge of NoSQL databases like DynamoDB, MongoDB etc.
• Proven track record of becoming a subject matter expert in areas related to current assignments
• Effective communication skills with business users and other developers

Required Skills : 1. Experience building CI/CD for cloud native apps using Terraform 2. Docker - Experience writing Docker files 3. Minimum 5 years of experience as a Cloud Engineer with strong AWS knowledge
Basic Qualification :
Additional Skills :
Background Check :Yes
Drug Screen :Yes
Notes :
Selling points for candidate :
Project Verification Info :
Candidate must be your W2 Employee :No
Exclusive to Apex :No
Face to face interview required :No
Candidate must be local :No
Candidate must be authorized to work without sponsorship ::No
Interview times set : :No
Type of project :Development/Engineering
Master Job Title :Cloud: Net/Sys Engineer
Branch Code :Boston