Cloud Developer

Freedom Technology Solutions Group is seeking a Cloud Developer to add to the team. The right candidate shall provide systems engineering and development support to help design and implement a new cloud-based solution to enhance the visibility and understanding of tool usage in the Sponsors mission center. Individual(s) will need to evaluate an existing prototype design for gaps. The candidate should provide a centralized platform for managing tool usage and heritage and enable the ability to effectively track equities and processes. 

Requirements

• Work closely with the Sponsor, Product Owner, and Project Manager to ensure that the Web-based development infrastructure, builds, and database meets the Sponsor’s cybersecurity, performance, data integrity, and functional requirements.
• Use software such as Jira, Confluence, SharePoint, or similar to create user stories, plan sprints, or track work requirements.
• Design a scalable, secure, and highly available cloud architecture using AWS services.
• Use Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform to create and manage infrastructure.
• Set up a development, test, and production environments, including AWS accounts, CI/CD pipelines, and version control systems.
• Design and develop databases, including schema design, data modeling, and data migration.
• Configure CI/CD pipelines to automate deployment and testing.
• Develop the application.
• Perform unit testing, integration testing, and performance testing to ensure the application meets the required standards.
• Deploy the application to the production environment.
• Set up monitoring and logging tools to track application performance and identify issues.
• Perform ongoing maintenance, including bug fixes, security patches, and performance optimizations.
• Maintain documentation and perform knowledge transfer to ensure a smooth handover.

Experience

• AWS Cloud Expertise and be familiar with AWS services such as EC2, S3, Lamda, API Gateway, and DynamoDB as examples.
• Solution Architecture in designing scalable, secure and highly available cloud architectures.
• Solution Architecture in designing scalable, secure and highly available cloud architectures.
• Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or AWS CodePipeline.
• Programming skills in Java, Python, Node.js, C#, or Go.
• Database design, development of database tables, views, queries, and management, including complex relational databases, SQL databases in RDS, (e.g., PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g., DynamoDB, MongoDB).
• Front-end Development skills, with expertise in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and frameworks like React, Angular, or Vue.js.
• Experience working in an Agile environment.

Highly Desired Skills 

• AWS Certifications: Solutions Architect, Data Engineer, DevOps Engineer, or Developer. Demonstrated experience working within Sponsor’s environment.
• Demonstrated experience with setting up, configuring and supporting AWS infrastructure.
• Demonstrated experience working with APIs communicating between systems.
• Demonstrated experience working with any software automated test tool, experience building scripts, maintaining test collections, scaling demand (stress test), etc.