Senior AWS Cloud Engineer

Description

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior AWS Cloud Engineer to lead advanced cloud architecture, infrastructure deployment, and Dev Ops engineering in support of enterprise digital transformation initiatives!

This role is responsible for designing, building, securing, and optimizing AWS environments that support mission critical platforms and applications.

The ideal candidate combines deep AWS expertise with strong technical leadership, architectural thinking, automation proficiency, and the ability to foster cloud operational excellence. This position plays a key role in shaping cloud strategy, maturing Dev Ops practices, and mentoring engineering teams.

• Develop scalable, secure AWS architectures aligned with business and technical requirements.
• Evaluate emerging AWS services, industry trends, and best practices to influence cloud strategy.
• Design and govern AWS account structures, security boundaries, and multi account landing zones.
• Contribute to architectural standards, technical roadmaps, and modernization initiatives.

• Provision infrastructure using Terraform, including module development, state management, and workflow governance.
• Deploy applications and platform components using Helm, container orchestrators, and automated CI/CD pipelines.
• Build reusable IaC patterns and deployment automation to support repeatable, scalable environments.
• Integrate automated testing, validation, and quality controls into delivery pipelines.

• Lead containerization efforts:
  Package and deploy Docker containers and manage and orchestrate these containers at scale using Kubernetes (AKS).
• Install and configure databases (Postgres, Redis), messaging systems (Active
  
  MQ Artemis, Kafka), middleware (JBoss/Camunda), and API gateways.
• Execute complex integration and configuration tasks required for platform readiness.
• Support application teams with cloud native design, environment setup, and troubleshooting.

• Architect and support hybrid network connectivity including AWS Private Link, VPNs, and inter environment routing.
• Implement and maintain identity integrations including SCIM provisioning, IAM roles, and federated access controls.
• Ensure alignment with enterprise authentication, authorization, and attribute workflows.

• Implement security guardrails (SCPs, Config Rules, IAM policies) and enforce least privilege controls.
• Partner with the Risk & Info Sec teams to support compliance frameworks (FFIEC, PCI, GLBA, etc.).
• Participate in and collaborate on cloud threat modeling, vulnerability remediation, and incident response activities.
• Ensure logging, auditing, and monitoring meet enterprise and regulatory standards.

• Monitor and analyze AWS spend, usage patterns, and cost anomalies.
• Implement cost optimization techniques such as rightsizing, lifecycle policies, and Savings Plans.
• Provide recommendations balancing performance, reliability, and cost efficiency.
• Partner with leadership to support cloud budgeting and forecasting.

• Implement metrics, logging, distributed tracing, and alerting through Cloud Watch, VPC Fflow Logs, Cloud Trail, or similar tools.
• Design resilient cloud architectures using multi AZ, multi Region, auto scaling, and self healing patterns.
• Participate in on call rotations and lead incident resolution for complex issues.
• Develop runbooks, playbooks, and operational standards to ensure production readiness.

• Serve as a technical lead for cloud projects, guiding architecture, tooling, and engineering direction.
• Collaborate closely with engineering, security, product, and vendor teams to drive cohesive cloud initiatives.
• Provide mentorship, training, and knowledge transfer to internal engineering and operations teams.
• Communicate complex cloud concepts effectively to both technical and non technical stakeholders.

This is a hybrid role based out of our Operations Center in White River Junction, VT.