Cloud Engineer

This role is not available for Corp‑to‑Corp (C2C), third‑party recruiters, or staffing firms. Only W2 candidates or direct applicants will be considered. Submissions from third parties will not be reviewed. Role Overvie wThis Cloud Engineer sits within a commercial professional services delivery team and is accountable for shipping client-facing AWS work with a high bar for both quality and customer experience. The role calls for someone who keeps pace with current practices and consistently lands well-designed, durable solutions .A Day in the Lif eYou'll plug into a client delivery team and own AWS work end to end — from design through build. Day to day, you'll partner with network engineers, architects, and other delivery staff to make sure the client gets what they need .Key Responsibilitie sDesign, build, and continuously tune AWS cloud infrastructure so clients can hit their business goals .Stand up Amazon VPC networking — subnets, security groups, and network ACLs .Build IAM roles, groups, users, and policies on a least-privilege basis .Provision, validate, and document environments across dev, pre-prod, and production .Author infrastructure-as-code with Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, and the AWS CDK to keep deployments repeatable and maintainable .Produce gold AMIs and set up auto-scaling groups for compute workloads .Turn on multi-factor authentication across hardware and virtual devices .Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines .Advise development teams on AWS architecture decisions and design principles .Lead with an automation-first mindset, defaulting to Terraform and other IaC tooling wherever it makes sense .Apply consistent resource tagging to support cost allocation and capacity planning .Contribute to usage-based cost modeling and tune infrastructure for both performance and budget .Help scope and execute workload migrations, including VM moves; relevant tooling spans cloud-native migration services (e.g., AWS MGN), hypervisor migration (e.g., VMware HCX), and third-party backup/recovery platforms (e.g., Veeam, Clumio) .Confirm that workloads have landed cleanly in AWS, then retire the matching on-premises footprint .Join daily progress check-ins and hold the team accountable to agreed technical approaches .Log time against assigned projects each day .Work transparently, respond quickly to teammates, and surface working preferences to keep the team performing well .Pick up additional duties as needed .Required Qualification s3+ years in a DevOps or SRE capacity within AWS environments and/or supporting engineering teams, to include :1+ year building AWS cloud infrastructur e1+ year hands-on with Terrafor m1+ year building CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub, Azure DevOps, or similar )1+ year standing up automated alerting and monitoring dashboard sSolid command of current AWS cloud security practices .Skilled in IaC development (Terraform, AWS CloudFormation) .Comfortable scripting configuration management with tools like Ansible, Chef, or Puppet .Working proficiency in one or more programming/scripting languages (Python, Java, Groovy, etc.) .Familiar with both Agile and Waterfall delivery models .Able to run multiple client engagements in parallel .Detail-oriented .Strong communicator with disciplined time management .Nice-to-Have Skills and Experienc eContainer development and orchestration on platforms such as Kubernetes, Docker, and AWS EKS .Experience across the broader HashiCorp stack (Vault, Consul, Boundary) .Hands-on with Terraform Cloud or Terraform Enterprise .Wiring static and dynamic code-analysis tools into CI/CD pipelines .Use of observability and code-analysis platforms such as AWS X-Ray, AppDynamics, or Dynatrace .Preferred certifications :AWS Certified Developer – Associat eAWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associat eAWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associat eHashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associat e Show more Show less