AWS Cloud Engineer

At Stout, we’re dedicated to exceeding expectations in all we do – we call it Relentless Excellence . Both our client service and culture are second to none, stemming from our firmwide embrace of our core values:
Positive and Team-Oriented, Accountable, Committed, Relationship-Focused, Super-Responsive, and being Great communicators. Sound like a place you can grow and succeed? Read on to learn more about an exciting opportunity to join our team.

Impact You’ll Make As an AWS Cloud Engineer, you will support the reliability, scalability, and security of Stout’s cloud infrastructure. You will manage AWS environments, infrastructure automation, CI/CD pipelines, and containerized workloads while helping teams improve deployment processes and production operations.

Build and maintain reliable AWS infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code practices.

Support containerized applications and production environments with a focus on availability, security, and performance.

Improve deployment consistency through automated CI/CD pipelines and Git-based workflows.

Monitor cloud environments, respond to incidents, and address infrastructure and application reliability issues.

Identify opportunities to improve cloud operations, automation, security, and cost management.

What You’ll DoBuild, manage, and maintain AWS infrastructure using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code practices.

Administer AWS services including ECS, EC2, VPC, ALB/NLB, Auto Scaling, IAM, S3, Secrets Manager, and Systems Manager.

Manage Docker-based workloads and ECS services, including deployments, scaling, capacity management, and production troubleshooting.

Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using AWS Code Pipeline, Code Build, Git Hub Actions, or comparable technologies.

Configure and maintain AWS networking, security groups, load balancing, TLS certificates, private connectivity, and access controls.

Maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting through Cloud Watch and related observability tools.

Troubleshoot production incidents involving AWS infrastructure, containers, networking, and deployment pipelines.

Support high availability, backup and recovery, capacity planning, cloud security, and cloud cost management.

Maintain infrastructure and deployment configurations in Git using peer-reviewed, Git Ops-based workflows.

Develop and maintain operational documentation, automation, and runbooks that support reliable cloud operations.

Partner with technology teams to improve platform engineering practices, developer tooling, and operational processes.

What You’ll Bring Strong hands-on experience managing AWS infrastructure and production environments.

Advanced Terraform experience, including reusable modules, remote state management, and multi-environment deployments.

Strong Docker and container orchestration experience, preferably with AWS ECS.Experience building or supporting CI/CD pipelines using AWS Code Pipeline, Code Build, Git Hub Actions, Jenkins, Git Lab CI, or similar tools.

Strong knowledge of AWS networking, including VPCs, subnets, security groups, load balancers, NAT, and IAM.

Experience with Cloud Watch, monitoring, logging, incident response, and production troubleshooting.

Strong understanding of Git, Infrastructure as Code, Git Ops, cloud security, and highly available AWS architectures.

Experience with MongoDB Atlas, Open Search, Redis, Elasti Cache, or Valkey is preferred.

Familiarity with security tools such as Wazuh, Falco, Rapid7, Action1, or comparable technologies is preferred.

Experience with EC2 Image Builder, Lambda, SNS, Fluentd, or related AWS automation and observability tools is a plus.

Familiarity with PHP/Laravel, Python/Flask, Celery, and Redis-based application architectures is preferred.

Experience with platform…