AWS Cloud Engineer

AWS Cloud Engineer

Pay: $35-40/HR on W2

Location:

Remote - Raleigh, NC

High-level responsibilities include:

• Leading planning and execution of AWS region transfer activities across web platform environments.
• Assessing the current AWS infrastructure and identifying migration dependencies, risks, sequencing needs, and rollback considerations.
• Coordinating region transfer activities across development, staging, and production environments.
• Validating application functionality, infrastructure performance, DNS behavior, SSL/TLS configuration, security controls, backups, and monitoring after transfer.
• Creating clear documentation for architecture, dependencies, technical decisions, validation steps, and cutover support.
• Partnering with vendors and internal stakeholders to minimize downtime, reduce operational risk, and maintain business continuity.
• Supporting AWS-hosted web application environments, including EC2, VPCs, security groups, IAM, Route
  53, Cloud Watch, S3, backups, and load balancers.
• Reviewing AWS configurations and recommending improvements for security, maintainability, scalability, monitoring, and cost awareness.
• Troubleshooting server performance, connectivity, capacity, availability, and environment consistency issues.
• Making proactive AWS infrastructure updates as needed.
• Supporting the Bitbucket migration from external vendors to internal ownership and helping standardize repository workflows.
• Designing, writing, and maintaining Bitbucket Pipelines for deployment, validation, and operational automation.
• Building or improving CI/CD processes for safer and more consistent application deployments.
• Writing scripts using Bash, Python, or similar tools to automate repeatable operational tasks.
• Documenting deployment processes, pipeline logic, release dependencies, and support procedures.
• Administering and troubleshooting Linux-based web hosting environments.
• Evaluating server-level recommendations and explaining the technical purpose, risks, and implement considerations to non-infrastructure stakeholders.
• Supporting server-hardening efforts, OS patching, vulnerability remediation, SSH configuration, SSL/TLS configuration, and access-control improvements.
• Providing guidance on PHP-FPM, Apache, NGINX, memory allocation, CPU utilization, log analysis, and capacity planning.
• Reviewing vendor recommendations, challenging assumptions when needed, and advising whether proposed changes are appropriate for the environment.

Required qualifications include:

• 5+ years of experience in AWS infrastructure engineering, Dev Ops, cloud operations, or a closely related role.
• Strong hands-on experience managing AWS production environments.
• Experience with EC2, IAM, security groups, VPCs, Route
  53, Cloud Watch, S3, and application load balancers.
• Strong Linux system administration experience, including server troubleshooting, patching, log review, access control, and performance tuning.
• Experience creating and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, preferably in Bitbucket Pipelines.
• Strong Git and repository management experience.
• Ability to write practical automation scripts using Bash, Python, or similar scripting languages.
• Experience supporting web application hosting environments.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain infrastructure concepts clearly to web, vendor, security, and business stakeholders.

Preferred qualifications include:

• Experience with AWS region-to-region transfers or cloud migration projects.
• Experience supporting PHP-based applications or Word Press hosting environments.
• Familiarity with Apache, NGINX, PHP-FPM, SSL/TLS certificates, DNS, and CDN-related infrastructure.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or Cloud Formation.
• Experience with server hardening, vulnerability remediation, and enterprise security requirements.
• Experience working with managed hosting providers, external agencies, and cross-functional enterprise teams.