Senior Cloud Engineer

🕒 June 17

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Illumination Works

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2006

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

📣 Marketing

Consulting • Logistics • Marketing

Illumination Works is a company focused on digital transformation and data innovation, specializing in solving complex data challenges and providing actionable insights for better decision-making. The firm excels in data engineering, data science, and software and cloud engineering, offering a range of solutions from machine learning and natural language processing to data visualization and predictive analytics. By prioritizing user-centric design and innovation, Illumination Works helps organizations harness the power of their data to drive efficiency and unlock new business opportunities.

📋 Description

• Design and implement serverless workloads on AWS using Lambda, API Gateway, EventBridge, SQS, SNS, Step Functions, DynamoDB, and S3 • Author and maintain CloudFormation (YAML) templates as the source of truth for infrastructure, including nested stacks, change sets, and drift detection • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines that lint, test, package, and deploy CloudFormation stacks and code across environments with defined promotion and rollback strategies • Develop Python based Lambda functions, internal tooling, and automation with appropriate testing, logging, error handling, and dependency management • Provide architecture guidance for distributed event-driven systems, including choreography vs. orchestration, idempotency, delivery semantics, dead-letter and replay strategies, and schema evolution • Define event contracts and async integration patterns in partnership with application teams • Implement observability across services: structured logging, distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry), metrics, and actionable alarms • Participate in incident response and post-incident reviews and convert findings into automated guardrails and runbooks • Conduct code and design reviews; mentor junior and mid-level engineers on serverless patterns, IaC standards, and operational practices

🎯 Requirements

• 4+ years of professional cloud or software engineering experience • 2+ years building production AWS serverless workloads • Strong Python proficiency, including pytest, packaging, and async patterns • Hands-on CloudFormation experience leveraging Stacks and StackSets • Demonstrated experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines that deploy infrastructure, application code, and provision managed services • Working knowledge of event-driven architecture patterns and the trade-offs between EventBridge, SNS, SQS, and Kinesis • Practical understanding of AWS IAM, VPC networking, KMS, and least-privilege design for serverless workloads • Experience producing design documentation and driving technical decisions from ambiguous requirements • Light web application development experience to build internal tools, admin UIs, or thin frontends that integrate with serverless APIs • Must hold an active security clearance CompTIA Security+ certification • Acceptable candidates must successfully pass a drug test and background screen

🏖️ Benefits

• market-competitive salary • generous PTO package • comprehensive medical, dental, vision and life insurance plans • 401K • short/long-term disability insurance • fun and engaging culture • training opportunities to keep you up to speed on the latest technologies