Job Description
Role Name: Senior Cloud & Full Stack Engineer
Location: Los Angeles, CA. (Hybrid)
Ideal Candidate: A self-directed senior engineer who can own AWS operations, DynamoDB architecture, workflow automation, DevOps, production support, and high-traffic Next.js applications with minimal supervision. The successful candidate is equally comfortable resolving production incidents and delivering scalable platform and website enhancements.
Key Responsibilities:
• Operate, monitor, and troubleshoot AWS production environments.
• Design and maintain serverless applications using Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, and Step Functions.
• Design scalable DynamoDB data models, indexes, and access patterns.
• Build and maintain automated workflows, APIs, and platform integrations.
• Develop and enhance applications using Next.js, React, TypeScript, and Node.js.
• Manage Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD using Terraform and GitHub Actions.
• Monitor platform health with CloudWatch; lead incident resolution and root-cause analysis.
• Optimize CDN delivery, caching, performance, SEO, accessibility, Core Web Vitals, and scalability.
Required Qualifications:
• 7+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years supporting production AWS environments.
• Experience operating high-traffic, public-facing websites and owning systems through production support.
• Strong AWS experience with Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, Step Functions, CloudWatch, S3, SNS/SQS, IAM, Route 53, and Secrets Manager.
• Deep DynamoDB expertise, including access-pattern-driven design, partition and sort keys, Global Secondary Indexes, query optimization, and scaling considerations.
• Experience building event-driven architectures and reliable Step Functions workflows with retries, error handling, monitoring, and recovery.
• Strong development experience with Next.js, React, TypeScript, Node.js, and REST APIs.
• Experience with Next.js SSR, SSG, ISR, responsive development, SEO, accessibility, and front-end performance optimization.
• Strong understanding of CDN architecture, edge/API/browser caching, resiliency, and Core Web Vitals.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform, GitHub Actions, CI/CD, monitoring, troubleshooting, and incident response.
Preferred Qualifications:
• AWS Glue, EventBridge, ECS/Fargate, or ETL and data-integration pipelines.
• Amazon RDS for SQL Server, Microsoft SQL Server, T-SQL, and stored procedures.
• Cloudflare, Amazon CloudFront, Contentstack, or another headless CMS.
• AWS certifications and experience in media, entertainment, direct-to-consumer, or content publishing.
• Experience with AI coding tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Amazon Q Developer, Cursor, ChatGPT, or similar.
Location: Los Angeles, CA. (Hybrid)
Ideal Candidate: A self-directed senior engineer who can own AWS operations, DynamoDB architecture, workflow automation, DevOps, production support, and high-traffic Next.js applications with minimal supervision. The successful candidate is equally comfortable resolving production incidents and delivering scalable platform and website enhancements.
Key Responsibilities:
• Operate, monitor, and troubleshoot AWS production environments.
• Design and maintain serverless applications using Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, and Step Functions.
• Design scalable DynamoDB data models, indexes, and access patterns.
• Build and maintain automated workflows, APIs, and platform integrations.
• Develop and enhance applications using Next.js, React, TypeScript, and Node.js.
• Manage Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD using Terraform and GitHub Actions.
• Monitor platform health with CloudWatch; lead incident resolution and root-cause analysis.
• Optimize CDN delivery, caching, performance, SEO, accessibility, Core Web Vitals, and scalability.
Required Qualifications:
• 7+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years supporting production AWS environments.
• Experience operating high-traffic, public-facing websites and owning systems through production support.
• Strong AWS experience with Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, Step Functions, CloudWatch, S3, SNS/SQS, IAM, Route 53, and Secrets Manager.
• Deep DynamoDB expertise, including access-pattern-driven design, partition and sort keys, Global Secondary Indexes, query optimization, and scaling considerations.
• Experience building event-driven architectures and reliable Step Functions workflows with retries, error handling, monitoring, and recovery.
• Strong development experience with Next.js, React, TypeScript, Node.js, and REST APIs.
• Experience with Next.js SSR, SSG, ISR, responsive development, SEO, accessibility, and front-end performance optimization.
• Strong understanding of CDN architecture, edge/API/browser caching, resiliency, and Core Web Vitals.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform, GitHub Actions, CI/CD, monitoring, troubleshooting, and incident response.
Preferred Qualifications:
• AWS Glue, EventBridge, ECS/Fargate, or ETL and data-integration pipelines.
• Amazon RDS for SQL Server, Microsoft SQL Server, T-SQL, and stored procedures.
• Cloudflare, Amazon CloudFront, Contentstack, or another headless CMS.
• AWS certifications and experience in media, entertainment, direct-to-consumer, or content publishing.
• Experience with AI coding tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Amazon Q Developer, Cursor, ChatGPT, or similar.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Atlanta, GA |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Salary | $65–$70 Per Hour |
| Company Size | 500 to 999 employees |
| Website | https://www.apolisrises.com/ |
Benefits
Paid Sick Days, Employee Referral Program, Employee Events, Retirement / Pension Plans
About Company
Since 1996, RJT has provided successful SAP, Oracle, and IT consulting solutions and staffing services to clients around the world. The new Apolis brings you the same personalized service fortified with a greater array of IT solutions, global expertise, and cost-management strategies.
We are a global IT consultancy that seamlessly integrates experts and leading-edge solutions into your organization so you can focus on what really matters.
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