AWS Cloud Engineer

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Job Title: AWS Cloud Engineer

Location: Must be able to work onsite in McLean, VA (preferred) or Richmond, VA
Contract Length: 16+ Months
Hybrid Work: Yes

Job # 247320

We are seeking an experienced AWS Cloud Engineer with a strong operational and Dev Ops background to support a critical third‑party application hosted in AWS. This role is focused on maintaining production stability, ensuring infrastructure reliability, remediating vulnerabilities, and driving enterprise security and compliance initiatives.

The ideal candidate has hands‑on experience supporting production AWS environments, maintaining Infrastructure as Code (IaC), troubleshooting live systems, and working within highly regulated enterprise environments.

• Maintain and support production AWS infrastructure and applications.
• Ensure high availability, stability, and performance of existing cloud environments.
• Execute enterprise security and compliance initiatives.
• Identify, prioritize, and remediate infrastructure, application, container, and OS vulnerabilities.
• Manage AWS Secrets Manager, automated credential rotation, and certificate management.
• Maintain and update Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Chef cookbooks.
• Troubleshoot production issues using Cloud Watch and New Relic.
• Monitor system health, logs, and infrastructure performance.
• Support infrastructure upgrades, configuration management, and patching activities.
• Read, troubleshoot, and modify Power Shell and/or Python automation scripts.
• Maintain configuration code using Git Hub and enterprise pull request workflows.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, security, and application teams to ensure operational excellence.

• Strong experience supporting production AWS environments.
• Experience with enterprise Cloud Operations or Dev Ops.
• Hands‑on AWS infrastructure administration.
• Experience supporting highly available production systems.
• Strong troubleshooting and operational support background.
• Experience working within regulated enterprise environments.
• Ability to support existing applications rather than greenfield development.

AWS Services

• AWS Secrets Manager (including automated rotation)
• AWS KMS
• IAM
• ELB
• EC2
• Lambda
• S3
• RDS
• AWS DMS
• Cloud Watch

Infrastructure & Automation

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Chef
• Git Hub
• Power Shell
• Python
• Docker container vulnerability remediation

Monitoring

• Cloud Watch
• New Relic

Security

• Vulnerability management
• Patch management
• Secrets management
• Certificate management
• Enterprise security compliance

• Recent experience supporting large enterprise financial environments.
• Experience supporting third‑party vendor applications.
• Experience with:
  • Actimize
  • Tomcat
  • Oracle
• Active AWS Certifications such as:
  • AWS Certified Dev Ops Engineer
  • AWS Certified Security – Specialty

Candidates should demonstrate:

• Strong operational mindset.
• Experience supporting production infrastructure.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills.
• Security‑first approach.
• Enterprise compliance experience.
• Infrastructure maintenance expertise.
• Strong collaboration skills.
• Ability to work in hybrid Agile/operations environments.