AWS Cloud Engineer

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$70.00/hr - $80.00/hr

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Dallas, Las Vegas, Atlanta or Chicago (Hybrid – Onsite 3 days a week)

We are seeking a Cloud Engineer with AWS expertise for a hands‑on, hybrid role focused on building and maintaining a highly reliable and modern cloud platform. This position requires engagement with engineering and application teams, supporting migrations, automating infrastructure, and enabling secure, cost‑effective, and seamless infrastructure services.

• Lead and participate in wave-based workloads and application migrations using AWS 5R strategies and modernization techniques, collaborating with application owners to ensure secure, safe, and minimal downtime cutovers across AWS compute, storage, database, and serverless platforms.
• Develop and manage an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) environment with Terraform – focusing on reusable modules, policy-as-code, state management, and robust tagging strategies.
• Create and own CI/CD automation pipelines and templates (primarily in Git Hub Actions) for build, test, scan, and deployment workflows; support drift remediation and continuity of development/staging/production environments.
• Oversee containerized and serverless compute platforms (including ECS, EKS, Fargate, Lambda, and API Gateway), standardizing Docker image builds, software deployment patterns (such as blue/green and canary releases), as well as assisting in the operation and backup of AWS‑managed databases.
• Implement security best practices including least‑privilege IAM, KMS, WAF, and Secrets Manager policies; ensure regulatory tagging, provisioning guardrails (such as SCPs via AWS Control Tower), and integration of AWS security findings into operational workflows.
• Define, monitor, and maintain Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs), leveraging AWS observability tooling (Cloud Watch, X‑Ray) and contributing to troubleshooting documentation, on‑call best practices, and post‑incident analysis.
• Design, implement, and maintain resilient networking across multi‑VPC and multi‑account environments, including ALB/NLB configuration, private/hybrid connectivity (Direct Connect, VPN), subnets, routing, security groups, and Private Link‑enabled architectures, alongside comprehensive DNS management (Route 53).
• Support Fin Ops initiatives: right‑size cloud resources, manage autoscaling, plan and track Savings Plans/Reserved Instances, monitor usage/budget anomalies, and maintain an up‑to‑date Service Now CMDB. Active participation in change management, incident management, and on‑call rotations is expected.
• Engage in exploration and potential implementation of AI agents or automation (using AWS Bedrock, Lambda, Step Functions, Kendra/Open Search) to further optimize developer experience and operations.
• Assist in the wind‑down and transition of legacy Azure workloads as necessary, including support and guidance for workload migration.
• 3–5 years of recent, hands‑on experience as a Cloud/Platform/Dev Ops Engineer focused in AWS, with a strong grasp of core AWS services (compute, networking, IAM, and storage).
• Strong proficiency with Terraform (including module development, state management, and CI pipeline integration).
• Demonstrated experience with Git/Git Hub, and practical usage of Git Hub Actions or similar continuous integration/deployment tools.
• Hands‑on experience operating and supporting containerization (ECS/Fargate, EKS, Docker) and serverless architectures (Lambda, API Gateway), as well as working knowledge of managed databases (RDS/Aurora, Dynamo
  
  DB, Elasti Cache).
• Linux administration fundamentals and scripting skills (Bash and/or Python) for automation and operations support.
• Demonstrable skills in monitoring, observability, and…