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Senior AWS Data Engineer / Senior Cloud Engineer

📍 Location: Newark, NJ (Hybrid – 3 Days Onsite)
📅 Duration: Long-Term(FTE)
🏢 Client: Global Insurance Company (Life Insurance Preferred)

Job Overview

We are looking for a Senior AWS Data Engineer / Senior Cloud Engineer to join the Global Technology team supporting a major Insurance client. You will work within the CDO Enterprise Data Platform (EDP) team to design, build, and optimize scalable AWS-based data platforms and ETL solutions supporting mission-critical applications.

The ideal candidate has 8+ years of IT experience, including 5+ years of hands-on AWS Data Engineering experience, with strong expertise in cloud-native data services, ETL development, infrastructure automation, and Python.

Required Skills

AWS & Cloud

• AWS (S3, EC2, Glue, EMR, Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB)
• IAM, KMS, VPC, CloudWatch
• AWS Data Engineering

Data Engineering

• ETL Pipeline Development
• Apache Spark
• AWS Glue
• EMR / Hadoop
• SQL Optimization
• Data Warehousing
• Distributed Computing

Programming

• Python (Required)
• Node.js
• Bash
• PowerShell

DevOps & Infrastructure

• Terraform or CloudFormation
• Docker
• ECS/EKS
• Jenkins / AWS CodePipeline
• Git
• Linux

Monitoring

• Splunk
• ELK Stack
• Prometheus
• Grafana

Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable AWS data platforms and ETL pipelines.
• Build cloud-native data processing applications using AWS services.
• Optimize data workflows and troubleshoot production issues.
• Develop Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Build CI/CD pipelines for data applications.
• Develop production-grade Python applications.
• Implement secure AWS architectures using IAM, KMS, and VPC.
• Monitor and optimize application and data pipeline performance.
• Collaborate with global development teams in an Agile environment.
• Participate in architecture discussions and continuous improvements.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of overall IT experience.
• 5+ years of AWS Data Engineering experience.
• Strong Python development experience.
• Expertise with Spark, Glue, EMR, ETL, and SQL.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Experience with Docker and containerized workloads (ECS/EKS).
• Strong understanding of AWS networking and security.
• Experience with Git, Jenkins, and Linux.
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Life Insurance domain experience (preferred but not mandatory).
• Application development experience.
• Team leadership or mentoring experience.
• Experience working in global Agile teams.

Work Model

• Location: Newark, NJ
• Hybrid: 3 days onsite per week
• Duration: Long-Term

Must-Have Skills

• AWS
• Python
• ETL
• Spark
• AWS Glue
• EMR
• SQL
• Terraform/CloudFormation
• Docker
• Jenkins
• Git
• Linux
• IAM
• S3
• Lambda
• RDS
• DynamoDB
• CloudWatch