BJ's Wholesale Club · 1 day ago
Lead AWS Cloud Engineer
BJ's Wholesale Club is seeking a highly skilled Lead Cloud Engineer for their Cloud Operations and Engineering team. The successful candidate will be responsible for designing, building, deploying, and supporting highly available systems on AWS while providing leadership and mentorship to team members.
Responsibilities
Lead cloud initiatives across multiple projects and business units, ensuring scalable and secure architecture
Operate in an Agile environment with DevSecOps mindset, utilizing infrastructure as code and related tools
Mentor junior team members. Provide leadership for infrastructure projects
Design and implement resilient cloud systems, including DR/HA strategies and operational support plans
Use CI/CD tools for infrastructure as code – Bamboo, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Git, Nexus, AWS Code Build, CodeDeploy, CodePipeline
Build systems with AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS) and cloud databases
Ensure availability, configuration, and compliance with AWS management tools like CloudFormation, Autoscaling, CloudWatch, Systems Manager, Config, CloudTrail, Puppet PE
Monitor performance against operational metrics
Manage security and identity with AWS IAM, KMS, Certificate Manager, Secrets Manager
Support AWS analytics solutions in production – AWS EMR, Data Pipeline, RedShift
Handle storage and backup in hybrid cloud environments
Participate in on-call rotation for 24/7 support of production environments
Qualification
Required
Bachelor of Science in Technology or equivalent with 7+ years of experience in provisioning and managing infrastructure and Infrastructure as Code
3+ years of expert level experience across a broad range of AWS services. Familiarity with on-premises setup and hybrid cloud architecture
Hands-on experience in designing and deploying infrastructure using CloudFormation, Terraform, or other IaC tools
Extensive experience with auto-scaling and self-healing within well-architected designs
Proficiency in AWS monitoring: including CloudWatch, CloudTrail, S3 access logs, ALB logs, and AWS Config for managing a holistic portfolio of applications across multiple accounts
Security & IAM: Expertise in creating and managing IAM roles and security control policies
S3: Skilled in creating buckets, policies, lifecycle management, and logging
Proficient in Python and administration of Node and Java-based applications
Expertise in AWS CLI
Preferred
AWS certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Professional) or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer or AWS Certified Advanced Network
Experience with blue-green deployments, canary releases, and other deployment strategies
Familiarity with serverless technologies such as AWS Lambda and API Gateway
Company
BJ's Wholesale Club
BJ's Wholesale Club, commonly referred to simply as BJ's.
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
unknown2018-06-28IPO
2011-09-30Acquired
2011-06-29Private Equity
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