AWS LEAD Engineer

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AWS LEAD Engineer
Experion

100% onsite out of Plano, TX

max pay $70/hr. on c2c.

Qualifications/Experience Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline or the equivalent combination of education technical certifications and work experience.

Working conditions US CET business hours

Job Description

Minimum of 3 years of experience successfully leading and managing small engineering teams.
Extensive knowledge and practical experience in implementing Agile and Kanban methodologies, including the execution of 2-3 medium to large projects using Agile methodologies.
Strong understanding of engineering processes and developer experience tools (Gitbub, Jira, Jenkins, SonarQube etc.)
Experience with the core AWS services including Compute Solutions, Container Services, Serverless services, Data pipeline, Database services etc.
Strong proficiency in GitOps, demonstrated experience in implementing GitFlow.
Sound knowledge and practical expertise in setting up and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
Knowledge of writing infrastructure as code (IAC) using Terraform
Experience in AWS Lake formations, AWS Glue or ELT and ETL tools and frameworks like DBT, Airbyte
Excellent programming skills in Java Spring Boot or Python
Experience in developing Restful & GraphQL APIs
Good experience with Docker and Kubernetes
Previous exposure to Engineering Analytics and tools like LinearB, JellyFish, Cortex is desirable
Understanding of productivity efficiency metrices (like DORA, SPACE) is a plus
Duties and responsibilities

Lead and mentor a team of 5 engineers, providing guidance, support, and feedback to maximize their potential and drive their professional growth
Take ownership of decision-making processes, resolving conflicts and prioritization issues that may arise.
Act as the main point of contact for both onsite and offshore team members, providing clear communication and facilitating seamless collaboration
Effectively manage and prioritize project tasks, ensuring on-time delivery and adherence to quality standards.
This person will be the go-to person for difficult development problems, Java/Node or Python and AWS design, code standards, code reviews, etc.
Implement data pipeline to gather business-specific metrics around consumer usage patterns
Analyze highly complex business requirements; generate technical specifications to design or redesign complex software components and applications
Building reusable components, blueprints, infrastructure scaffoldings, architecture patterns
Acts as an expert technical resource for modeling, simulation, and analysis efforts
Assures quality, security and compliance requirements are met for supported areas