Cloud Engineer

Overview

Location : 200 E Grand Avenue | Des Moines, IA 50309

State client IA

Start date:

05/18/2026 | End date: 06/30/2026 with possible extensions

Onsite position; US citizens only

Note: All listed skills require 5 years of experience.

• Designing and administering AWS environments (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3) to support enterprise workloads - 5 years
• Creating hybrid workload patterns where identity, authentication, and application services function seamlessly across cloud and on-premises systems
• Migrating legacy systems to AWS, including developing modernization roadmaps and workload readiness assessments
• Documenting system architectures and producing AWS architecture diagrams showing network topology, dependencies, and service interactions
• Diagnosing complex AWS identity, network, or compute issues affecting dependent applications
• Guiding teams through hybrid dependency failures such as directory sync disruptions, routing conflicts, or misconfigured IAM policies
• Documenting troubleshooting workflows, root causes, and long-term mitigation strategies
• Eliminate single points of failure in design patterns
• Provide backup, recovery, and DR to meet all RTO/RPO requirements
• Supporting CI/CD infrastructure pipelines that promote test, staging, and production environments through automated checks
• Enforcing AWS guardrails such as encryption, MFA, IAM role boundaries, and network segmentation