Sr. AWS Cloud Engineer

Senior Cloud Engineer

Needham, MA – 2-3 days per week onsite – Contract. The Alexander Technology Group is searching for a talented Senior AWS Cloud Engineer to join the Systems Engineering team for a long-term contract role. Review the job description and if you meet the qualifications, please send an updated resume to  to be considered.

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available AWS cloud infrastructure to support global enterprise environment and applications.
• Work with application, security, and data teams to deliver cloud solutions.
• Implement and manage infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices (e.g., Terraform, Cloud Formation) to enable repeatability and speed.
• Lead cloud reliability, performance tuning, and incident response efforts.
• Drive cloud security best practices, including identity and access management, network design, encryption, monitoring, and compliance controls.
• Document architectures, standards, and operational procedures to support long-term scalability and maintainability.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience designing and supporting cloud infrastructure, with hands‑on AWS expertise (required).
• Strong experience with core AWS services (e.g., EC2, VPC, IAM, RDS, S3, Lambda, EKS/ECS, Cloud Watch).
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and automation tools (e.g., Terraform, Cloud Formation, CI/CD pipelines).
• Solid understanding of cloud networking, security architecture, and cost optimization strategies.
• Azure experience is a plus.