Senior AWS Cloud Engineer

Senior AWS Cloud Engineer

WASH is seeking a Senior AWS Cloud Engineer with hands‑on Dev Ops experience to design, automate, operate, and secure our AWS cloud environment. The role supports customer‑facing and internal applications, building reliable cloud infrastructure, improving CI/CD pipelines, automating operational tasks, strengthening security controls, and modernizing our technology platforms.

• Design, build, operate, and improve AWS cloud infrastructure supporting customer‑facing and internal applications.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Cloud Formation, AWS CDK, or similar technologies.
• Build, enhance, and support CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application deployments.
• Automate repeatable operational tasks using scripting and AWS‑native services.
• Support AWS account structure, IAM, networking, compute, storage, monitoring, backup, and security services.
• Partner with application, infrastructure, security, and business teams to deliver scalable and reliable cloud solutions.
• Implement and support highly available, resilient, scalable, and self‑healing cloud environments.
• Monitor cloud environments for performance, availability, security, cost, and operational health.
• Configure and improve logging, metrics, dashboards, alerting, and incident response workflows.
• Troubleshoot production issues across AWS infrastructure, applications, deployments, networking, and integrations.
• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and problem management activities.
• Improve cloud security posture through least privilege access, secure configuration, encryption, vulnerability remediation, logging, and governance controls.
• Help define and implement AWS standards, patterns, documentation, and operational runbooks.
• Support cloud migrations, modernization initiatives, and ongoing platform improvements.
• Identify opportunities to reduce manual work, improve deployment quality, optimize costs, and increase platform reliability.
• Serve as a senior technical resource for AWS‑related engineering, Dev Ops, automation, and operational questions.

• 7+ years of Cloud engineering, Dev Ops, systems engineering, or site reliability engineering experience.
• 4+ years of hands‑on AWS experience in production environments.
• Strong experience with AWS core services such as EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, Route
  53, RDS, Lambda, EKS/ECS, ELB/ALB, Systems Manager, Secrets Manager, and AWS Backup.
• Hands‑on experience designing and supporting AWS networking, including VPCs, subnets, route tables, security groups, NACLs, VPNs, NAT gateways, private endpoints, and load balancers.
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform and/or Cloud Formation.
• Experience building and supporting CI/CD pipelines using Git Hub Actions, Git Lab CI/CD, Jenkins, Azure Dev Ops, AWS Code Pipeline, AWS Code Build, or similar platforms.
• Strong scripting and automation skills using Python, Bash, Power Shell, or similar languages.
• Experience with Git‑based source control and modern branching/release practices.
• Hands‑on experience with Linux systems administration;
  Windows/.NET environment experience is a plus.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability tools such as Cloud Watch, Datadog, New Relic, Splunk, ELK/Open Search, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar platforms.
• Experience troubleshooting complex infrastructure, application, deployment, performance, and networking issues.
• Working knowledge of security best practices, including IAM, MFA, least privilege, encryption, patching, vulnerability remediation, logging, and audit readiness.
• Strong understanding of high availability, disaster recovery, backup/recovery, RTO/RPO, horizontal scaling, load balancing, and resilient architecture patterns.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to work effectively with technical teams, business stakeholders, vendors, and leadership.

WASH is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or status as a veteran, or because of any other federal, state, or local protected class. We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable federal, state, and local laws.