Sr. Cloud Engineer
Company: Connection
Location: Baton Rouge, LA 70807 (Remote)
Type: Full-time
Remote: Yes
Posted: 2026-06-09
About this role
Overview:
Connection has a fantastic opportunity through our Technical Staffing division for a Senior Cloud Engineer. This is a contract-to-hire opportunity and is 100% remote.
Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.
Responsibilities:
- Design and evolve AWS architecture for scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency
- Standardize infrastructure patterns and reusable templates to deploy infrastructure across dev, stage and production environments
- Design and maintain build and deployment pipelines
- Implement monitoring and alerting (CloudWatch, third-party tools), logging and tracing, health checks and synthetic monitoring
- Diagnose and resolve production incidents, performance bottlenecks, lead root-cause analysis and post-incident reviews
- Create and manage user accounts for SSO access to internal systems
- Communicate on all open projects and give updates to technology team staff
Qualifications:
- 5+ years AWS serverless architecture and administration
- 2+ years Infrastructure as Code
- 2+ years Creating CI/CD pipelines for web deployment and dbt
- 2+ years IAM and cloud security
- 2+ years Cloud networking basics
- 2+ years RDS administration
- Ability to manage multiple projects and meet deadlines
- Okta configuration
- Snowflake, big data administration
- Multi-region data center management and disaster recovery.
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