AWS Engineer​/Developer

Position: AWS Engineer /Developer
Location: Columbus, OH
Salary: Negotiable
Description:
Job Title:
AWS Engineer/Developer

Location:
Columbus, OH / Minneapolis, MN (4 Days onsite, 1 day remote)

Type: 3 Months Contract to Hire

Contract only W2

Job Description

We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer/Developer for our AWS development team to work in our Digital Payments technology organization who can develop and lead technical delivery of agile development focused on building and supporting new capabilities like modularization, configuration driven enhancement, normalization (to support vertical and horizontal expansion of data model) etc. into our digital payment disbursement platform called Choice Pay.

This platform provides administrators with the ability to manage disbursements and allows payees to collect payments using their preferred payment method (Pay Pal, Venmo, ACH, Check, Gift Card, Debit Card, Zelle, etc).

Responsibilities

Be a Lead Level Subject Matter Expert (SME) on all technology stacks within the Payment Disbursement portfolio while providing technical leadership and hands on delivery for an AWS Development Team

Build primary execution engine on AWS Lambda to support highly available and handles high volume payment origination, processing, disbursement, and settlement capabilities.

Build scalable and event-based application using Amazon SQS and SNS. Build an efficiently executing application by continuously diagnosing logs and root causes of complex technical problems using AWS Cloud Watch and AWS Cloud Trail.

Build storage for containers using EC2 and data stores using Dynamo

DB and RDS Postgre

SQL. Build adhoc reporting using Quick Sight.

Build security capabilities like threat monitoring and alerting using AWS Guard Duty, blocking common web API threats using Amazon WAF and automate security checks using AWS Security Hub.

Build seamless user experience using JavaScript, node

JS, efficient content delivery using AWS Cloud Front and build storage for application UI using Amazon S3.

Build APIs to communicate with UI using API Gateway. Configure end points and keys using App Sync and Secrets Manager. Integrate API logs with Splunk.

Build a robust User Management using AWS Cognito.

Build networking using VPC and continuous configuration management using AWS Config.

Build communication capabilities like notifications and system monitoring emails using SES. Build large data transfer capabilities using AWS Transfer Family.

Expert level Change Management and Incident Management knowledge using Service Now to implement changes to production.

Expert level knowledge of integration between internal applications using APIs and other communication techniques.

Ensure that all development team deliverables are planned and completed including but not limited to sprint planning, backlog grooming, detailed design, development, unit/automated testing, defect fixes, implementation planning/execution, change controls, and production support/incident resolution.

Help in tracking and reporting the development team's progress in completing deliverables using systems like ADO or Jira.

Provide support in staffing decisions for the development team (referral, interviewing, candidate selection, onboarding, etc)

Provide L3 production support 24/7/365 spread across the team.

Display strong communication and collaboration skills frequently working with other enterprise IT and business partners daily.

Learn the business processes, controls and workflows supported by each technical solution and fluently communicate between technical and non-technical audiences.

Basic Qualifications

7+ years of hands-on Full Stack Cloud Native application development technologies like

3+ years of hands-on development using technologies that provide JavaScript driven user experiences, RESTful web services, incoming/outgoing file processing, and asynchronous event-based integrations.

Relational databases/SQL like Amazon Aurora, MySQL, and PostgreSQL

No

SQL databases like Amazon DynamoDB

Scripting languages/services like Python, JavaScript, Type Script, React JS, Node JS/Typescript, and AWS Lambda

Serverless Compute Engines - AWS Fargate

Amazon API Gateway

Code repositories like GIT and AWS…